Network Rail plans to outsource its enterprise systems
and computing services following a review of its IT
infrastructure.
Suppliers have been separately shortlisted for enterprise
systems and computing services.
Network Rail said it would only sign outsourcing deals “if the
proposals are economically and technically viable”. The company
expects to sign any outsourcing deals that get the go-ahead by the
middle of this year.
A new service centre will be set up to centralise the support
functions delivered to all 20,000 of the company’s IT users. The
centre will include Network Rail’s IT helpdesk, incident management
and operations units.
The rail infrastructure company has been working on an overhaul
of its IT systems and architecture since the company was set up
following the collapse of Railtrack in 2002.
Network Rail spends around £100m a year on IT. Its main IT
objective is to reduce the 1,000-plus applications it acquired from
Railtrack to 200 initially and then fewer still.
All change at network rail
Network Rail looks to cut app-count
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