Vodafone India is in talks with IBM over the renewal of a $1 billion contract due to expire in June 2016, Economic Times India has reported.

However, Vodafone is also on the verge of issuing a request for proposals from other vendors, with Wipro, TCS, Infosys and Tech Mahindra all thought to be in the running to replace IBM as the sole service provider for the contract.

Sources close to Vodafone India have suggested that the company is not interested in potentially dividing the contract between a number of suppliers, as some of its competitors have done.

The contract involves the provision of Vodafone India’s application development and its IT network. While also trying to hang onto the contract, a source told Economic Times India that IBM is also trying to sell Vodafone its data analytics solution as an addition to the current package.

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