IBM has won a major contract to create a single computing
infrastructure for TUI UK, the company created last year from the
merger of Thomson Holidays and Lunn Poly.
The £35m, eight-year deal, which will also cover Britannia Airways,
is expected to deliver 20% savings on current desktop spending. IBM
already supplies IT services to Thomson Holidays, but 20 TUI
employees will transfer to IBM by the middle of the year.
The contract will see IBM Global Services manage all TUI UK
computing systems including its entire server infrastructure, the
provision of PC helpdesk and technical support for more than 10,000
workstations across a variety of brands.
It follows last month's ten-year, £120m deal between rival travel
company Thomas Cook UK and Accenture to create a unified services
centre to manage the travel company's finance and IT functions.
