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Essex County Council has signed an eight-year, £5.4 billion agreement with IBM that it claims will deliver significant savings to local resident tax payers and which some claim will be a template for similar deals under a Tory national government.

The aim of the deal is to make a saving of 20% of the authority’s annual budget of £1.2billion within three years. As strategic partner, IBM will provide services including the design, management and delivery of front-end customer services, back-office and corporate systems as well as business consulting and technology implementation and integration.

“Working together [with IBM] we will also be able to keep council tax low and deliver real value for money for Essex residents,” said Lord Hanningfield, leader of Essex County Council. “This is the most ambitious project that the Council has undertaken, and finding the right partner to help us deliver it is a vitally important step.

It will be interesting to see how this deal works going forward and if it includes any consolidation or improvements in the IT space, any cloud or data center services? We’ll have to see, do check out the article.

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