London’s second largest airport plans a £73m IT operations overhaul which will include hosting, telephony and management of end-user computing.

There will be 11 lots available for suppliers to bid on which are outlined on an online tender, with each lasting for a period of 4 years. The most expensive of these being valued at £12m covers hosting, management, support and maintenance. This section of the airport’s current framework has more than 900 servers, based on a virtualised Unix and Wintel estate, as well as over 200 storage devices.

Gatwick is also considering cloud-based services to handle its web services, including their website, intranet and extranet.