Industry News
Thursday, September 02, 2010
UK: Buying Solutions awards IT outsourcing contract to Bull IT
Buying Solutions, the public sector procurement agency awarded Bull IT a framework agreement for IT Managed Services.
Under the agreement, Bull’s IT managed services will be made available to all UK public sector organisations which are seeking to contract a supplier who can design, implement and manage end-to-end, cost effective Information and Communication Technology (ICT) services.
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The Met awards £10m contract extension to Logica
The Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) and Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) have granted Logica a £10m three-year extension on its pay and pensions outsourcing contract.
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Capgemini acquires stake in Brazilian IT services player
IT and outsourcing consultancy Capgemini has acquired a 55% stake in Brazilian IT services company CPM Braxis.
Capgemini has an option to buy the remainder of CPM Braxis’ capital (45%), and the existing shareholders have an option to sell their remaining shares. These options can only be exercised between the 3rd and the 5th anniversary of the closing date (on the basis of an estimated price based on fair market value at the time of the exercise of these options).
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Wednesday, September 01, 2010
CBI awards 5 year contract to Wipro
Central Bank of India (CBI), one of the largest public sector banks in India has awarded IT solutions supplier Wipro a five-year total outsourcing agreement to provide state-of-the-art, technology-driven, core banking solution for seven sponsored Regional Rural banks (RRBs).
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Alcatel-Lucent acquires OpenPlug
Alcatel-Lucent has acquired OpenPlug, a mobile software and applications development tools vendor.
The OpenPlug toolset will be incorporated into Alcatel-Lucent’s Developer Platform and external linkOpen API Service, thus broadening the functionality available to service providers, enterprises and developers for the exposure of network assets and the rapid introduction of new services across mobile and Web domains.
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Sony increases outsourcing to Taiwan
Japan’s Sony Corp is increasingly outsourcing television manufacturing to contract makers, primarily its Taiwanese partners, during this fiscal year to boost its market share.
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Tuesday, August 31, 2010
NMC awards £5.2m contract to BSG
The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), the nursing and midwifery regulator for over 660,000 registered nurses and midwives in England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Islands, has signed a five year contract worth up to £5.2m with Business Systems Group (BSG).
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Bunzl results match predictions
UK-based distribution and outsourcing group Bunzl has delivered half-year results bang in line with expectations as a recovery in North American revenues offset ongoing weakness at the distribution and outsourcing group’s business in the UK & Ireland.
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Equinix to build $63m data centre in Hong Kong
Global data centre provider Equinix is to build its second international business exchange™ data centre, HK2, in Hong Kong. The new $63 million HK2 IBX data centre will provide total capacity for more than 1,450 cabinet equivalents.
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Friday, August 27, 2010
Sunoco awards application support services deal to IBM
Sunoco has awarded IBM a deal that will see the manufacturer and marketer of petroleum and petrochemical products outsource its managed business process services and application support services.
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