Zurich
Financial Services Group has entered exclusive negotiations
with IT outsourcer CSC 10-year contract valued at $2.4bn.
The contract is believed to cover managed data centre and IT
infrastructure services in Europe and North America, including data
centre centralisation and server virtualisation.
The deal is believed to allow country-specific deals between
Zurich and CSC.
CSC already holds a $399m, six-year global IT desktop
outsourcing agreement and signed its first contract with Zurich in
2004 for a $1.3bn, seven-year for outsourced applications.
If the deal goes through it is expected to take effect early
next year.
CSC had not responded to requests for an interview by the time
CW went to press.