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Atos wins £74m DoH contract

Posted by admin on Mon, 30/01/2012 - 19:13
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Atos, an international IT services company, today announced that it has been awarded a five year contract worth £74m by the Department of Health to deliver an integrated IT desktop service.
 
The deal will also encompass a range of supporting services within the Department and for some of its Arms Length Bodies.
 
A spokesperson for the DoH told the Guardian today that, “The procurement was conducted against the ASCC framework, using an in-house team and has delivered a flexible contract that will result in savings of around 40% on the current cost of service across the life of the contract.”
 
The contract draws together the desktop solution for the Department and some of its Arms Length Bodies, such as the Care Quality Commission into a common, high-quality, integrated, shared service.
 
It is being positioned as "supporting" the aims of the Government Strategy for ICT - both in reducing costs and ensuring the necessary ICT is in place to deliver DoH reforms and modernisation in 2012 and beyond.
 
Wayne Gibson, Senior Vice President Government and Health at Atos said: “Our new solution makes the government’s ICT Strategy, Sustainability and Open Source initiatives a reality. We will work with SMEs and use Open Source software to deliver a service that offers value for money.”
 
“Shared services is a core business for Atos and, as a company committed to service excellence, we will ensure that migration to the new solution is as seamless and easy as possible. We will deliver a scalable, robust and cost-effective service for people working in the Department and those Arms Length Bodies who will also use our service.”
 

The Atos solution is built using existing good practices together with modern desktop solutions to provide a people-centric service that enables flexible and collaborative working. To ensure a minimum impact on people and to help drive continuous service improvement, Atos will deliver a comprehensive internal communication programme and people training.

It says it will also deliver a new data centre infrastructure, enabling maximised applications performance, reliability and availability on the desktop, with the flexibility to scale cost effectively.