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Global Crossing Continues Partnership With Steria in Criminal Justice IT Project
- Contract supports newly formed National Offender Management Service.
- Managed government IP VPN connects 1,000 UK sites.
- Shows continued success of Global Crossing's government and systems integrator relationships.
London - November 16, 2005 -- Global Crossing (NASDAQ: GLBC) announced it has been awarded a contract renewal for up to six-and-one-half years, by leading European IT services provider Steria to support services under the UK Offender Management National Infrastructure (OMNI) contract recently awarded to Steria. Under the contract, Global Crossing will provide its managed government IP VPN service to the National Offender Management Service's (NOMS) 1,000 sites across the UK.
Global Crossing has partnered with Steria for the past 10 years to provide managed data services to the National Probation Service (NPS), now part of NOMS. Under this new agreement between NOMS and Steria, reached after an extensive tender process, Global Crossing will continue as Steria's partner in providing services to the NPS and enable the migration of their managed data services to IP. The agreement also provides for managed voice and conferencing services and will result both in improved pricing for Steria and a better cost structure for Global Crossing.
The OMNI contract is part of a major restructuring of the entire UK criminal justice system and its technology infrastructure. The UK government has a vision of "joined-up" justice, namely linking the different justice agencies to provide end-to-end management of offenders through the entire UK criminal justice system, from the courts to probation. Technology will enable this inter-working and the OMNI contract will link the systems of Her Majesty's Prison Service (HMPS) and NPS. Sharing a common IT infrastructure will enable case information to be available to all agencies and follow an offender through the entire justice system.
"We're thrilled to be continuing our relationship with Steria and the criminal justice service, and look forward to enabling the plans for "joined-up" justice in the UK," said John Legere, chief executive officer of Global Crossing . "We have a strong reputation and extensive experience of working with government departments and systems integrators in the UK and it's our strategy to build and expand these relationships across the globe."
Steria was selected to provide OMNI for its ability to provide enhanced, flexible services that can adapt to the changing needs of NOMS's business throughout the life of the contract. It was important for Steria, in turn, that its chosen partner could offer innovative and flexible solutions to enable this vision of agency internetworking.
"We're very pleased to be entering this new era supporting criminal justice IT with Global Crossing as our partner," said Paul Sellick, NOMS client director at Steria. "We require a partner we can rely on to provide excellent technical support, the highest service levels and first class customer service along with the ability to offer next generation solutions cost effectively. Our experience with Global Crossing gives us that confidence."
The continued relationship with Steria demonstrates that Global Crossing is delivering on its indirect strategy to maintain existing and develop new systems integrator partnerships globally. Global Crossing works with a number of system integrators and also directly to provide services to government departments. Global Crossing provides its partners flexible IP solutions, backed by stringent service level agreements over its globally secure IP network with unparalleled service and support.
In addition to the NOMS, Global Crossing serves many other significant customers in the UK government sector. In June 2005, Global Crossing was awarded preferred supplier status by the Forestry Commission for telecommunications services, including managed IP VPN, voice and conferencing services. In March 2005, Global Crossing announced that it would provide the British Council with a fully managed, terrestrial and satellite IP-based network connecting more than 7,000 users at 260 offices in 110 countries, and under its other government framework contract, Managed Telecommunications Service (Mts), Global Crossing provides secure managed voice and data services to more than 110,000 users in more than 90 different government departments.
ABOUT STERIA
About Steria Limited (www.steria.co.uk)
Steria in the UK combines expertise in e-consultancy, applications, secure e-business solutions, intrusion protection technology, managed hosting services, network management and infrastructure management, with a focus on major business sectors: public sector, finance, manufacturing and utilities. Steria employs 1,800 people in the UK.
About Steria (www.steria.com)
Extensive expertise in its three core businesses of consulting, systems integration and managed services has made Steria a leading end-to-end IT services provider for companies and public authorities throughout Europe.
With revenue of more than 1.1 billion Euro and 9,000 employees, Steria is one of the top 10 European IT services companies.
Understanding the challenges facing its customers, an exceptional ability to respond and an industrial approach to business, enable Steria to design innovative solutions with a commitment to results and customer satisfaction.
Steria thus applies its expertise in a range of markets (the public sector, finance, manufacturing/utilities/transport, and telecoms), backed by more than 35 years' experience in managing large-scale projects.
Steria's employees, who hold 26 percent of the Group's capital, draw on its core values of simplicity, creativity, independence, respect and openness to transform the latest technology into added-value services, enabling Steria to help its customers achieve and maintain competitive advantage.
Steria is listed on Euronext Paris, Eurolist (Compartment B).
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ABOUT GLOBAL CROSSING
Global Crossing (NASDAQ: GLBC) provides telecommunications solutions over the world's first integrated global IP-based network. Its core network connects more than 300 cities and 30 countries worldwide, and delivers services to nearly 600 cities, 60 countries and 6 continents around the globe. The company's global sales and support model matches the network footprint and, like the network, delivers a consistent customer experience worldwide.
Global Crossing IP services are global in scale, linking the world's enterprises, governments and carriers with customers, employees and partners worldwide in a secure environment that is ideally suited for IP-based business applications, allowing e-commerce to thrive. The company offers a full range of managed data and voice products including Global Crossing IP VPN Service, Global Crossing Managed Services and Global Crossing VoIP services, to more than 40 percent of the Fortune 500, as well as 700 carriers, mobile operators and ISPs.
Please visit www.globalcrossing.com for more information about Global Crossing.
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