At the time of signing, the CNPA was provided IT services by the UKAEA, as it was the organization’s previous parent body.
UKAEA companies serviced under the separate contracts are Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd., Research Sites Restoration Ltd., UKAEA Culham, UKAEA Ltd. and UKAEA itself. As part of the arrangement, UKAEA will transfer its in-house IT team to CSC.
CSC will service the contracts through its Civil Nuclear Center of Excellence in Westlakes, Cumbria, UK. Plans are currently underway to open a second Center of Excellence in Forss Business Park, Caithness, in June 2009.
CSC is pleased to be working with the UKAEA group of companies and the CNPA, said Nick Wilson, president of CSC’s operations in the UK, Nordics, Middle East and Africa. These contracts build on our position as the UK’s number one supplier of IT services and solutions to the UK civil nuclear industry. We now work for 14 different UK organizations operating in this evolving sector, as well as many others around the world.
This is an excellent outcome to the constructive, competitive dialogue between ourselves and CSC, said Norman Harrison, UKAEA chief executive officer. It provides a sound basis for future IT services to a changing UKAEA and retains the skills and expertise of our experienced team while giving them opportunities to develop in a wider commercial environment.
With UKAEA’s restructuring into separate companies, the organization initiated a strategic review to determine the best option to meet its future IT needs. Completed in mid-2008, the review concluded that continuing the provision of in-house IT services in the long term was not strategic and a competitive exercise seeking an IT outsourcing company was initiated in October.
