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Article: SEMA WINS SCOTTISH HEALTH SERVICE CONTRACT.
- Article from:
- Computergram International
- Article date:
- November 19, 1998
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Sema Group Plc, the Anglo-French IT services company, has taken over from California-based Computer Sciences Corp to provide an outsourced IT service for some of the National Health Service in Scotland in a contract worth 58.8m pounds over five years. CSC, which won a 60m pound, three-year contract in 1995, had refused to bid for the new contract after the NHS did not extend the contract for a further 18 months. The new deal, to start in April 1999, for five years, and an option of two more, will cover the mainframes, Unix systems, PCs and networking at the key points of Edinburgh, Paisley and Dundee, as well as other regions. Sema ...