Highways Agency signs £75m IT outsourcing deal

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By Miya Knights
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Transport agency anticipates 15 per cent annual savings from new managed infrastructure and applications agreement.

The Highways Agency has signed a five-year contract worth 75 million to outsource its IT infrastructure and applications management.

The executive agency of the Department for Transport responsible for operating, maintaining and improving the strategic road network of England told IT PRO it needed to renew existing contractual arrangements that were due to expire during 2007.

The agreement to outsource its IT infrastructure to IT services company Atos Origin is hoped to save a minimum 15 per cent of the agency's annual IT budget.

Chris Price, Highways Agency service review manager, said: "As a public sector organisation, it is essential that the Highways Agency makes the best use of public funds.

Miya Knights
Miya Knights

A 25-year veteran enterprise technology expert, Miya Knights applies her deep understanding of technology gained through her journalism career to both her role as a consultant and as director at Retail Technology Magazine, which she helped shape over the past 17 years. Miya was educated at Oxford University, earning a master’s degree in English.

Her role as a journalist has seen her write for many of the leading technology publishers in the UK such as ITPro, TechWeekEurope, CIO UK, Computer Weekly, and also a number of national newspapers including The Times, Independent, and Financial Times.