Monday, 22 September 2008

BT Extends Infrastructure & Services Contract with HP worth $660M

As part of the BT HP Alliance, BT said Friday that it has signed a 660 million dollar contract amendment with Hewlett Packard (HP) to extend the transformation of its technology environment.

The contract, which aims to reinforce BT’s ability to meet customer needs today and into the future whilst delivering cost reductions, is an extension of both company’s current agreement for the next 7.5 years.

“HP will support the management and transformation of the BT technology environment into an increasingly agile, cost-effective infrastructure designed to deliver what their business requires,” said Francesco Serafini, senior vice president and managing director – EMEA, HP.

Under the new agreement, HP will continue to provide, deploy and support BT’s servers and storage as well as continue to deliver Service Desk and End User Services to a population in excess of 100,000 users across BT in the United Kingdom.

“This contract renewal offers BT competitively priced services across a number of key areas of our IT infrastructure,” said David Butcher, managing director, Service Introduction, BT Operate.

“HP is a key partner for BT and this deal will create the platform for accelerated innovation and delivery of services for our customers.”