By Tony Hallett, 30 November 1998 18:09
NEWS Lewes District Council is claiming a £1m outsourcing contract it signed with ICL in April this year has cut its mainframe system costs by a third. ICL has taken on the UK council's VME (Virtual Machine Environment, ICL OS-based) mainframe processing, covering areas such as benefits, council tax and accounting. The contract was won after a short-list of five outsourcers was drawn up. Three of those companies tendered, with ICL beating Integris and ITNet to the deal. Dick Coppard, IT manager for Lewes District Council, told Silicon.com: "We originally had an arrangement with the County Council, but they outsourced to ICL and now we also use their facility in Feltham, London. This means, for example, that we don't have to worry about Year 2000 problems, because if they don't have it licked, then no one has." Lewes District Council now has a 128K connection to the Feltham site, using ISDN as back up. Over the past six-months - the period during which the Lewes contract began to ramp up - ICL has signed £70m worth of contracts in the local government sector.
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