Rolls Royce has awarded a three-year outsourcing contract to Capgemini. Capgemini will work with Rolls Royce to overlook the IT outsourcing provided by a number of vendors, ensuring that they deliver the best possible services in over 50 countries.

The contract, which has the option to be extended for a further two years, is part of a new multi-vendor IT strategy.

Simon Ricketts, CIO at Rolls-Royce, said: "It is vital that our products, services and people are supported by world-class IT and that is what our new strategy is designed to achieve."

The strategy is tasked with allowing 40,000 Rolls Royce IT users in 50 countries use the system seamlessly. The contract will begin by the end of this year.