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September 14, 2006
New Business
Perot Systems Corporation and Owens & Minor, Inc., announced a five-year extension of an existing seven-year technology sourcing contract originally executed in 1998. The contract extends the Perot Systems/Owens & Minor relationship to 2014. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Perot Systems' work under the contract extension is highlighted by a mainframe migration program that will give Owens & Minor the forward-looking technology environment required to support web-based applications using a services oriented architecture.
Unilever has awarded BT a contract for the provision of a managed firewall service. The 10.5m pounds ($19.7 million) global agreement will run over a six and a half year period and follows the recent extension to its original seven-year service contract with Unilever. The new deal will involve BT taking over full management
responsibilities for Unilever's existing estate of 256 firewalls spread across 68 countries.
Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. has expanded its agreement with the State of Missouri to provide electronic health records. The value of the contract will be based upon the number of providers enrolled in the program. Over 700 Missouri physicians have enrolled in the program to date, which features cutting edge technology that will allow the Medicaid program and its participating providers to communicate critical information to improve and expedite service to at-risk patients.
Posted by jbowles at September 14, 2006 07:04 PM
