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June 01, 2006

New Business

The city of Minneapolis awarded Unisys Corp. a contract to provide managed services supporting the city's 911 computer-aided dispatch (CAD) system. Unisys will provide support and management services for the server, desktop and network environment on which the system runs to help ensure that this critical system is continually available to city employees so that they can respond to citizens' requests for emergency services. The five-year, fixed-price contract is valued at approximately $6.8 million.

Unisys also announced that it has received a three-year extension of its engagement to provide outsourced IT services to AIG Technologies, Inc. (AIGT), the information technology services provider for member companies of American International Group, Inc. (NYSE: AIG), world leaders in insurance and financial services. The contract extends services Unisys has provided AIGT since 2000.

HOCHTIEF, an international construction service provider, and Accenture have signed a five-year business process outsourcing agreement under which Accenture will manage HOCHTIEF’s sourcing and procurement function throughout Europe. Terms of the contract were not disclosed.

Microsoft Corp. and Group O Companies are announcing a long-term technology and services agreement for Group O to provide marketing, consumer and managed services for Microsoft Worldwide Operations. Group O is a privately held Hispanic-owned firm based in Milan, Ill.,specializing in rebates, call center, application development, printing, mailing, packaging and business process outsourcing services, with 1,200 employees and annual revenues of $240 million.

Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. has been awarded a two-year extension to its business process outsourcing (BPO) contract with AmeriHealth Mercy/Keystone Mercy Health Plan, the largest family of Medicaid managed care health plans serving nearly two million Medicaid members in eight states.

ACS was also awarded a one-year contract renewal with the City of Detroit, Michigan, for parking ticket processing and collections. The total contract renewal is worth $3.7 million.

Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. announced the signing of a multi-year outsourcing agreement with the new Nationwide Bank, a subsidiary of Nationwide Financial Services, Inc. to support the expansion of the company's banking products and services.

First Consulting Group (FCG) announced a multi-million dollar, four-year implementation and operation engagement with Continuum Health Partners' Beth Israel Medical Center in New York which will commence on August 1, 2006.

Posted by jbowles at June 1, 2006 08:27 PM