TCS signs $30 m deal with UK co

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S Ramadorai, CEO, TCS (L) and Mr Les Dawson, managing director, United Utilities Service Delivery, at the press conference in Mumbai to announce the 3-year agreement between TCS and United Utilities Plc Photo by Ganesh Shirsekar

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), has signed a 3 year agreement worth about 30 million pounds, with the UK-based United Utilities (UU) Plc, a multi-utility group. This assignment will be executed from TCS’ offshore delivery center in Kolkata. A significant amount of work would also be executed from TCS’ onsite centers in the UK. TCS has set up a facility in Manchester dedicated to the United Utilities engagement.

The agreement, which was signed in Mumbai between TCS CEO S Ramadorai and United Utilities Service Delivery managing director Les Dawson, will run through till March 31, 2005, with an option for a further 5-year extension till 2010.

Tata Consultancy Services country manager A S Lakshminarayanan explained that the objective of the agreement was to enhance efficiencies across UU’s IT requirements, leverage TCS’ expertise in outsourcing, processes and infrastructure and utilise TCS’ multi-platform and project management capabilities.

The engagement is expected to include areas of enterprise application integration (EAI), management Information systems (MIS), data warehousing (DW) and development as well as support & maintenance of various applications.