Cardiff City Council signs up TCS for IT deal
DATE: Nov 4th, 2009
According to ComputerWorld UK Cardiff City council has signed a £150 million , 15 year deal with TCS.
TCS was competing with IBM and BT and beat them to the deal. The deal will involve TCS working alongside Cardiff IT staff and no staff will be transferred to TCS. TCS will use their DigiGOV platform to provide solutions to the city council.
Earlier TCS won a deal with the UK based CMEC ( Child Maintenance & Enforcement Commission) , an 80 million dollar multi year deal:http://coreadvisor.com/globalwise/2009/04/09/tcs-bags-80-mn-contract-from-uks-cmec/
As public sectors across the western world struggle with reduced budgets, they are looking at ways to optimize their spend and provide similar or additional services. At the same time public sectors have to deal with the political sensitivity of dealing with a community with job losses and struggling economy , if they are moving their jobs to a different location.
Based on the new release, looks like TCS is planning to do work onshore as well as offshore and not really take any jobs away.
Update:
Looks like the deal Cardiff signed with TCS will not displace any of the existing IT staff and will augment the staff with TCS expertise. Appears more of a consulting engagement using a global (onshore/offshore) model for execution and delivery. A staff augmentation model bringing in expertise from TCS.
Links to Cardiff
http://www.cardiff.gov.uk/content.asp?parent_directory_id=2865
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