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News Southwark has outsourced its IT since 1995 and this contract replaces a seven-year deal worth around £35m signed in 2001 with ITNet, now part of Serco. The London Borough of Southwark has signed a five-year, £26m... [19 Mar 2007]
Atos Origin lands £46.7m Government Gateway deal
News The government had originally planned to create a single data centre to join up the three building blocks of the UK's e-government push - the Government Gateway, the information-sharing Knowledge Network, and the content management... [20 Sep 2006]
Serco to cut 170 jobs
News It bought local authority IT provider ITNet for £235m in 2005. IT services company Serco is cutting around 170 jobs as part of a company-wide restructuring plan. The job cuts come despite Serco boosting revenues by 38... [30 May 2006]
£30m council outsourcing deal up for grabs
News Southwark has outsourced its IT since 1995 and the new contract will replace a seven-year deal worth around £35m signed in 2001 with ITNet, now part of IT services company Serco. The London Borough of Southwark is to... [03 Feb 2006]
Capita beats IBM to £424m Birmingham IT deal
News Birmingham's existing IT suppliers include Serco, which recently bought ITNet. Capita has beaten IBM to a massive IT services contract with Birmingham City Council worth £424m over the next ten years. [05 Dec 2005]
Hackney retenders £10m outsourcing contract
News Hackney has had something of a chequered history when it comes to outsourcing and was forced to bring a 10-year £70m benefits administration contract with ITNet back in-house in 2001 over payment and claim processing... [25 Jul 2005]
Capita and IBM make £500m Birmingham shortlist
News The business transformation plans and future service delivery methods will be developed between the council, the winning bidder and other local government partners, and the outsourcing deal will include the handover of existing... [30 Jun 2005]
IT staff vote for strike over outsourcing job losses
News The Bradford council IT outsourcing row resurfaced last month after winning outsourcing bidder ITNet was taken over by services firm Serco, which then revealed plans to make some of the 105 IT staff redundant. [13 Jun 2005]
IT outsourcing redundancies may spark strike
News The row over the Bradford-i project appeared to have been resolved after the council selected an IBM and ITNet consortium as the preferred bidder for what at the time was estimated to be a £100m deal. [23 May 2005]
Re:Viewing 2004: Outsourcing and offshoring
News The strike was eventually averted and the deal signed with IBM/ITNet in July, once terms were agreed with the council and staff. India, IT strikes and multi-billion pound deals dominated the outsourcing news headlines in... [22 Dec 2004]
Swansea settles on Capgemini for 10-year outsourcing
News The announcement ends months of speculation over the future of the Service@Swansea programme, with ITNet having been in the fray to pick up the contract - now finally valued at £99m with an additional £2m per year in IT... [17 Dec 2004]
Outsourcing gongs awarded in London
News Other awards on the night went to Westminster City Council/Vertex, for best BPO deal; Lichfield DC and Staffordshire-Moorlands DC working/ITNET, for best IT outsourcing deal; Magellan Consultancy Services, for best... [23 Nov 2004]
ITNet admits £200m takeover talks
News ITNet admitted today in a statement to the London Stock Exchange that it is in preliminary discussions "which may or may not lead to an offer for the whole issued share capital" of the company and that a further... [15 Nov 2004]
IT strike escalation backed by over 1,000 council staff
News ITNet and Capgemini are currently in the running for the contract. Council workers in Swansea have voted in favour of industrial action in support of striking IT staff in a move that could cripple public services. [06 Oct 2004]
Firms divided over Sasser virus writer's IT job offer
News Peter Rya, security manager for outsourcer ITNET said: "These guys obviously have the ability to be effective. The 18-year-old virus writer facing criminal charges for creating the Sasser worm has been offered a job by a... [22 Sep 2004]
