CGI's Logica Signs GBP 27M Deal With The City of Vasteras

The City of Vasteras has signed an agreement with Logica, now part of CGI,

, a leading provider of information technology and business process services, to outsource its IT operations.The GBP 27 million (SEK 285 million) deal will see CGI become responsible for the city's entire IT operation for the next five years including infrastructure, workplace IT application management, service desk printing services and resource consultants. The agreement also includes an option for an extension of the delivery for another two years.Under the agreement CGI will move Vasteras's current IT-infrastructure services to CGI's own data centres and begin an extensive conversion to a platform based on modern large-scale industrial infrastructure. This will allow Vasteras to lower their cost and get more efficiency into their IT-operations. In addition all employees that are affected by this agreement will be transferred to CGI."This partnership with CGI will allow us to provide affordable business support in a flexible way like never before," said Mikael Lagergren, CIO in the City of Vasteras, Executive Office. "Lower threshold costs help facilitate the introduction of new technologies without the need for the city itself to invest in technology solutions or