The UK's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority has awarded a five-year, shared IT services contract to French outsourcer Atos. Under the contract, Atos will provide networking, desktop, applications and hosting services to the four 'site license' companies that manage the UK's nuclear sites: Sellafield Ltd., Magnox, National Nuclear Laboratories and Low Level Waste  Repository.

The four site license companies formed a Shared Services Alliance in 2009, but until this contract have used individual IT services suppliers. Atos says that it will consolidate the IT  infrastructure of the four companies, which have a combined user base of over 18,000 in more than 30 locations. It claims that it will save the companies 30% in IT spend over the five-year period.

Source: Information Age