IBM delivers E220m outsourcing deal to Swedish postal service

IBM Global Services has won a E220m deal to provide IT and telephony services to Sweden’s national postal service.

Cost savings and efficiencies were the key drivers for the six-year outsourcing contract, which will see around 180 people transfer from Posten to IBM by 1 September this year.

The areas that will be outsourced include three data centres containing 600 servers and enterprise computer management and helpdesks including 180 applications and the whole of the telephony network.

As part of the deal TeliaSonera will provide Posten with the country’s larges wide area network.

Mats Engstrand, Posten CIO, said in a statement: "This agreement with IBM represents an important step in the company’s strategic management decision to focus on our core business."