IT services company Atos has announced today that it has secured a five year contract valued at £140 million to the Shared Services Alliance (SSA). The contract will see Atos supplying IT services to the SSA, part of a procurement initiative with the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA).

The contract will cover IT services with all four members of the SSA, covering networking, desktop applications, hosting-services and service integration. The contract will see the consolidation and modernisation of the existing IT infrastructure of the SSA as well as improving services to over 18,000 users, in order deliver 30 percent savings at the end of the five years.

SSA Award Project Manager, Keith Gibson, said: “It will reduce costs by simplifying IT support arrangements and provides a solid platform for future developments.”