Unisys Corporation has announced that it has received a contract to provide IT managed services to a new client, the American Red Cross, a leading provider of humanitarian services. The contract has a potential value of approximately US$80 million over its initial five-year term. It also has two one-year renewal options.

Under the terms of the contract, Unisys will provide a full range of customer support and data canter managed services to support approximately 20,000 Red Cross workers throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico. The workers are engaged in disaster relief, blood-supply management and other activities critical to the organization's humanitarian mission. The contract includes on-site services, IT asset management and service desk support delivered through Unisys Managed Services Centers in Salt Lake City, Utah and Rochester, New York. Unisys will provide data centre services from its facility in Eagan, Minnesota, with disaster recovery backup in Salt Lake City.

Source: IT News Online