Network Rail has signed a five-year IT
services contract with
CSC to help support its ongoing UK rail infrastructure
upgrades.
The deal also comes with a three-year extension option. Under
the terms of the contract, CSC will provide midrange services and
Oracle ERP support.
The midrange work includes server maintenance and management,
datacentre hosting, security, disaster recovery planning and
storage area network management.
Around 70 members of Network Rail's current IT support team will
transfer to CSC, including employees from previous contract
incumbents.
Catherine Doran, director of information management at Network
Rail, said, "We have always been clear that our preferred supplier
in this area must engage in our development and change programme,
as well as keep the critical systems running.