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July 13, 2006
New Business
Hewitt Associates will provide HR business process outsourcing (BPO) services to Centrica plc, a leading utility and energy organization based in the United Kingdom. Under a seven-and-a-half-year contract (including a six-month transition period), Hewitt will provide a full range of HR BPO services, including workforce administration, payroll, customer service, reward management, performance management and succession planning to 30,000 Centrica employees in the UK.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) awarded EDS a task order to provide web hosting services to support all of CMS' outward facing websites. The value of contract will be $41 million if all options are exercised. This is the second task order issued to EDS under the CMS Enterprise Data Center (EDC) $1.9 billion Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contract, a multi-vendor vehicle CMS is using to consolidate data center operations. The first task order, awarded in April, was worth up to $29 million.
Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. has signed a two- year, $12 million contract with the Agency for Health Care Administration in Florida to provide choice counseling services in response to Florida's aggressive perspective on addressing Medicaid reform. ACS will provide choice counseling and enrollment broker services for program outreach, education, counseling, enrollment, and dis-enrollment for all Medicaid recipients in a two-year, five-county pilot area.
Posted by jbowles at July 13, 2006 08:00 PM
