UMass Memorial Health Care, a US-based hospital system, has awarded ACS with an ITO contract worth over $100 million,

The contract, spanning five years, will see ACS provide information systems services including the expansion of UMass Memorial's IT systems through deployment of new servers and data storage equipment. ACS will also provide networking, data systems, data center hosting, desktop, help desk, telecommunications, disaster recovery, and resource planning services.

George Brenckle, Senior VP and CIO at UMass Memorial, commented: "This new agreement will enable UMass Memorial to tackle upcoming challenges, including growing demands for storage, high availability computing, clinical information systems and the increasing service levels the technology requires".

The contract will extend an existing six-year business relationship between the companies.