25 Aug 1998
Oil giant BP this week confirmed that it had struck a #300 million five-year global desktop support deal with EDS, writes Dan Sabbagh.
BP expects the deal to bring annual savings of 30% within three years.
The deal marks a move by the oil giant to reorganise its outsourcing deals on a global basis, replacing an existing patchwork of local and departmental deals.
Covered under the terms of the deal are PCs, laptops, departmental servers, and email and videoconferencing systems. A new 3,000-seat helpdesk will be built in Durham to consolidate corporate UK helpdesks .
A BP spokesman said that the company ?was getting a differing quality of service in different geographies and wanted to consolidate them?.
EDS will replace BP?s existing suppliers ? Sema, SAIC and IBM ? when contracts run out over the next 18 months.
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