Taylor Wimpey extends CGI IT contract in £22m deal

Five-year contract will see CGI tasked with driving 'significant service improvements' at home building firm

Residential development firm Taylor Wimpey has signed a five-year extension to its contract with global information technology and business process services firm CGI.

Under the terms of the new deal, which is worth £22m and takes the partnership through until at least 2021, CGI will support Taylor Wimpey as it looks to achieve "significant" service improvements and support modernisation of IT systems and business change.

Under the extended contract, CGI will provide managed services in a wide range of areas, including service desk support, end user computing, unified communications, applications management and enterprise services management. CGI will also be tasked with helping to draw up a cloud strategy for Taylor Wimpey.

"This contract renewal will help us drive significant service improvements, allowing us to focus more resources on driving growth and what matters most to our business - our customers," said Andy Feldon, IT director at Taylor Wimpey.

Feldon pointed to a strong existing relationship with CGI as one of the main reasons Taylor Wimpey has opted to continue working with the firm.

"It enables us to extend our long-standing relationship with CGI, ensuring smooth continuation of services, while making the most of the knowledge and expertise that CGI has already acquired whilst working with us for the past decade," he said.

CGI has a number of large customers including the Ministry of Defence, but just last week, communications regulator Ofcom decided not to renew its IT services contract with the firm, instead signing a £23m deal with Indian outsourcing company NIIT Technologies.