Fujitsu has been awarded a preferred bidder status by the Highland Council for a five-year 66m pounds ($108.6m) ICT service contract. The contract has an option to extend for a further two years. Skip related content
Under the contract, Fujitsu will manage the entire ICT estate, including additional scope for curriculum ICT to all schools across the Highlands. It will be responsible for complete transformation and modernization of the council's ICT infrastructure, systems and services, including major projects for new customer relationship management and the provision of unified communications applications.
The company has developed an application that will provide infrastructure services, applications portfolio management, thick and thin client desktop technology based on Windows 7 and an improved service management environment based on its TRIOLE for Services platform and Sense & Respond methodology.
Councillor Carolyn Wilson, chairman at the Highland Council Resources Committee, said: "This new contract will offer the Council and all the staff a number of interesting opportunities for new, improved and flexible ways of working in the future and allow significant investment in new ICT systems and infrastructure for both corporate and school curriculum ICT. It will deliver significant efficiency savings of 6.76m pounds ($11.12m) over the next five years and cut the carbon footprint of the council through reduced carbon emissions and energy consumption."
The deal follows Fujitsu Services' Patja IT infrastructure contract with Ohio-based Cobalt chemicals producer OMG to provide support services at its Finnish subsidiary.
