TCS wins $90 mn Qantas engagement

Kolkata, Nov 9: Tata Consultancy Services, the leading IT services and consulting organisation, announced it had signed a seven-year engagement with a value of around AUD $ 120 Million (USD 90 million) with Qantas to provide a range of IT application, transformation and maintenance services.

The contract for the Applications Services and Transformation (AST) outsourcing program launched by Qantas is the largest single contract awarded to an Indian outsourcing company in Australia.

Under this contract, TCS will assume full responsibility for more than 75 per cent of the total scope of Qantas' (AST) programme. TCS will provide support and maintenance to all of Qantas' key IT applications for airport operations and commercial systems TCS will be the lead partner for the transition phase of the entire Qantas AST programme, overseeing activities of many of Qantas' internal and external groups involved in IT systems support and maintenance.

''The Qantas engagement is a significant milestone for TCS' airline business and is the result of our extensive investments in building domain expertise that has helped create innovative solutions for companies,'' said company CEO and Managing Director S Ramadorai.

UNI