Qatar Foundation and EDS Signs Major Data Centre and IT Services Contract
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Plano, Texas and Doha, State of Qatar - EDS announced today that Qatar Foundation has awarded it a 7 year Data Centre and Information Technology (IT) Services contract .
Under this agreement, EDS, will assume responsibility as operator for the first certified Tier IV Data Centre being built outside of North America and Qatar Foundation's IT services located throughout the State of Qatar. As operator, EDS will provide the Foundation with end to end technology services and a fully integrated IT managed service, comprising IT operations, service desk, infrastructure management and service delivery.
"This agreement is a milestone in our IT strategic plan and will expedite our ability to supply service excellence to the members of Qatar Foundation; it further aids us by creating another channel under the Foundation's umbrella to help transform the State into a knowledge based society. We are very pleased to have signed EDS as our partner. EDS supports our mission of transformation and will aid the Foundation beyond the application of IT services through the leverage of their global resource pool of expertise" said Rashid Al Naimi, Vice President - Administration for Qatar Foundation.
"We are delighted to engage with Qatar Foundation as our Anchor Client in Qatar for the supply of world class IT services to the Foundation & the State of Qatar," said Charles Cox, Regional Vice President for EDS Middle East & Africa. "By harnessing EDS' worldwide experience of IT best practice, EDS is committed to supporting Qatar Foundation's vision to improve quality of life and provide excellent educational opportunities to the people of Qatar and the Region". Adding," our strategy in the region is to invest in local talent providing knowledge transfer of our global methodologies, processes and tools and so creating a strong indigenous IT services capability in each country".
This contract with Qatar Foundation also reinforces EDS' position as a truly global IT outsourcing services provider. Regionally, EDS and its affiliates in Qatar, UAE and Bahrain have almost 700 professional staff in the Gulf supplying a diverse client base from Government, Energy & Utilities, Transport and Healthcare making EDS the largest and most reputed outsourcing operation in the Middle East. Nearly 50% of these staff are GCC nationals.
About QF
Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development is a private, chartered, nonprofit organization, founded in 1995 by His Highness Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani, Emir of Qatar, and chaired by Her Highness Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al-Missned. The Foundation is guided by the principle that a nation's greatest resource is the potential of its people, and aims to develop that potential through a network of centers devoted to progressive education, research and community welfare.
Qatar Foundation is headquartered in a unique Education City in Doha, Qatar, which hosts branch campuses of some of the world's leading research universities, including Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar, Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar and Georgetown University in Qatar. It is also home to Qatar Academy, the Learning Center, the Academic Bridge Program, the RAND-Qatar Policy Institute, Al Shaqab Stud and Riding Academy, Fitch Qatar and Qatar Science and Technology Park. Future projects include a state-of-the-art conference and cultural center and a 350-bed, all-digital Specialty Teaching Hospital.
About EDS
EDS (NYSE: EDS) is a leading global technology services company delivering business solutions to its clients. EDS founded the information technology outsourcing industry more than 40 years ago. Today, EDS delivers a broad portfolio of information technology and business process outsourcing services to clients in the manufacturing, financial services, healthcare, communications, energy, transportation, and consumer and retail industries and to governments around the world.
Learn more at eds.com.
For more information please contact:
Paul Maidens: EDS Client Delivery Executive, Qatar Foundation
Office number:+974 492 7490
E-mail:paul.maidens@eds.com
