EDS Advanced Solutions, a subsidiary of EDS, an HP company, announced it has signed an agreement with the British Columbia Ministry of Labour and Citizens’ Services for hosting and data centre services.
The contract is valued at approximately $586 million calculated over 12 years.
Under the new agreement, EDS Advanced Solutions will consolidate, standardize and manage the computing, information storage and data centre operations for the province.
EDS Advanced Solutions will manage the province’s servers Non-HP site and storage Non-HP site systems and consolidate them from the existing eight data centres Non-HP site into two new centres.
HP and EDS Agility Alliance Non-HP site partners will provide services, products and solutions as a part of this agreement.
In compliance with British Columbia’s leading position in privacy protection, EDS Advanced Solutions enforces strict provisions that meet or exceed the province’s Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.
“The EDS Advanced Solutions team will deliver data management and storage that is secure as well as socially and fiscally responsible,” said Jim Hamilton, president of EDS Advanced Solutions, an EDS subsidiary. “With EDS, we have a total of 50 years of experience and superior business transition skills that will help deliver outstanding and innovative results.”
EDS Advanced Solutions has offered full-time employment to all unionized ministry employees affected by this agreement competitive with their current employment terms.