When a company got acquired by another, chance is pretty slim that the acquired one's outsourcing partner would retain the contract. Here, it was not only retained, but the outsourcing company actually has been awarded a meatier deal.
HP has successfully bagged an outsourcing contract from Nycomed, a Switzerland based pharmaceutical company. It will outsource its infrastructure services to HP for next five years. Nycomed has also engaged British Telecom (BT) to support its network related aspects. HP-BT combo will support the pharmacy giant's infrastructure that handles critical real time information across a number of networks. The value of the deal is not disclosed, but it is estimated that it won't be less than €100 million.
Earlier in 2006 October Nycomed aqcquired Atlanta. Quoting from Forbes:
Nycomed is expected to acquire Altana AG's pharmaceuticals unit for around 4 bln eur, according to media reports. Nycomed has outbid a rival suitor, Swedish investor EQT, WirtschaftsWoche quoted industry sources as saying in a pre-release of an article due for publication.
By then Atlanta has already entrusted HP with the outsourcing responsibilities of running of its customer support, life-cycle management of its client environment and the operation of its messaging and mobility solutions. After acquiring Atlanta, Nycomed had reviewed the contract (it took couple of years time though!!) and finally awarded it to HP.
Under the contract, for which a value has not been disclosed, BT and HP have split responsibilities. HP will manage Nycomed's datacentres including 450 servers, as well as migrating 13,000 email inboxes to Microsoft Exchange 2007.
BT will run multi protocol label switching services for Nycomed's wide area network, remote access services for 6,500 users, and also control internet bandwidth in Nycomed's networks around the world. Link
This deal also seems employee friendly, there will be transfer of assets between companies but no staff will be involved. Good for the parties concerned, no bad press will follow them.
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