BAA has signed off on a five-year application management outsourcing contract with Logica.

Logica will take on 400 applications such as staff rostering and BAA's Oracle Enterprise Suite. It will work to streamline performance of its end-to-end application support, maintenance and development processes.

Commenting on the contract Richard Rundle, BAA IT Director, said: “Logica was clearly the right business partner to form part of our multi-vendor strategy. As a leading Applications Services provider in Europe, Logica demonstrated that it had the capability, experience, expertise and geographic reach to deliver lower-cost, high quality, enterprise-wide solutions. Through this contract BAA will be able to achieve a more consistent approach to its IT services and applications across the business. It will allow us to manage our applications at an optimal cost, whilst maintaining strong service levels.”

Logica’s strategy will involve 50 roles transferring to the company and the delivery of outsourced support services through an onshore-offshore model.