- Five-year contract worth over EUR 125 million won in Europe-wide invitation to tender
The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt - DLR) will also source all its basic IT services from T-Systems over the next five years. The outsourcing contract governing services worth some EUR 125 million was signed by both parties in Cologne. In addition, an option of extending the contract for another year has been agreed. T-Systems had previously won the Europe-wide invitation to tender.
Everything from the telephone to the supercomputer The agreed services include the further development, set-up, operation and support of computers, communication infrastructure and application systems as well as consulting services. The portfolio includes everything from telephones, standardized and highly-specialized IT workstations, through to supercomputers and grid computing. T-Systems has already been supporting the German Aerospace Center's ICT systems for the past ten years. "We consistently source all basic IT services from external providers. This makes the German Aerospace Center a pioneer in the area of modern IT procurement for research institutions,“ said Dr. Hans-Joachim Popp, IT Manager and Chief Information Officer (CIO) at the center. "The new invitation to tender gave us the opportunity to align the terms and conditions of the contract more closely to our changing requirements.” Popp continued: "The fact that our longstanding partner succeeded in open competition is a testimony to the quality of our previous cooperation." "With our subsidiary, T-Systems Solutions for Research, we have a strong service provider for the science and research field," said Reinhard Clemens, Member of the Deutsche Telekom Board of Management and CEO T-Systems. "We are pooling the products and services of Deutsche Telekom to meet the unique requirements of the German Aerospace Center. From standard products, such as phones, to special services, such as supercomputers for calculation-intensive simulations, we deliver nationwide."
About Deutsche Telekom AG Deutsche Telekom is one of the world’s leading integrated telecommunications companies with over 150 million mobile customers, around 39 million fixed-network lines and approximately 17 million broadband lines (as of September 30, 2009). Its product brands are T-Home (fixed-network telephony, broadband Internet), T-Mobile (mobile communications), and T-Systems (ICT solutions). As an international Group with approximately 260,000 employees operating in around 50 countries worldwide (as of September 30, 2009), Deutsche Telekom generated more than half of its revenue - EUR 61.6 billion - outside of Germany in 2008.