The MoD has awarded a contract to IBM to reduce the costs of its property portfolio worth £24 billion through efficiency services.

IBM will provide services to MoD’s 4,000 sites across different countries including the delivery of smarter building software over 2013.

Dave Bartlett, vice president of Smarter Physical Infrastructure at IBM, said: “IBM’s analytics and smarter buildings software will help provide a new level of intelligence to how the MOD is managing its global real estate portfolio.”