The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister has selected
Steria to build a new IT infrastructure and provide managed IT
services in a £30m five-year contract.
Steria, which beat off competition from Fujitsu Services and
Unisys, to secure the deal, will design develop and implement a new
IT structure for the department and provide a fully managed IT
service to more than 3,000 ODPM employees in offices across the
UK.
ODPM is seeking to cut costs and improve efficiency over the
lifetime of the contract through more effective use of IT and
changed business practices.
Under the contract Steria will build a new Microsoft
Exchange-based infrastructure, dubbed Link, covering the ODPM’s
head office and regional sites. Data will be transferred from the
existing Novell/Groupwise infrastructure to the MS Exchange Link
system, which is expected to be in full use by the end of 2006.
Steria will also develop an electronic document and records
management system, making it easier to share information between
directorates that currently use different information storage
systems.
The firm will oversee the ODPM’s wide and local area networks
and provide a new remote access system to allow increased mobile
working.
Steria has hired management consultancy Capgemini as a
subcontractor to support the expected business changes.