CGI expands West

CGI Group Inc. (CGI) (TSX: GIB.A) has signed three contracts in Western Canada totaling more than CD$20 million.
The contracts, covering both municipal and provincial jurisdictions have been signed with the following entities: City of Calgary, an enterprise service desk for a three year contract with an option for two additional two year agreement; British Columbia Ministry of Health, a five-year contract to provide application and server management services; Alberta Ministry of Health and Wellness, a four year contract to provide Business Intelligence Environment (BIE) services.
“These three contracts show the diversity of CGI’s end-to-end offerings for the public sector,” Bill Clark, senior vice president of CGI forWestern Canada.
For the City of Calgary, CGI says it will be providing an enterprise service desk 24 hours, seven days a week, in which it will support all IT related issues. The call center will handleall technology support calls from City staff starting on November 1, 2006.
Beginning on October 1, 2006, CGI says it will provide the British Columbia Ministry of Health with management of servers and support of selected computer applications including BC ambulance services, home and community care,population health and wellness and others
The Business Intelligence Environment (BIE) services provided to the Alberta Ministry of Health and Wellness will allow the department to import data from many of its current applications to a central data repository and allow better analysis of the consumption of health care services.
“The Canadian public sector is an important area of growth for CGI and these three wins are very strategic for us,” Bill Clark adds. “They reflect a trend towards business transformation in the Canadian public sector.”