Eversheds has revealed the cost of its IT outsourcing deal with Computacenter, with the UK giant shelling out £27m on back-office functions over the next three years.
The announcement, made today (6 June), comes after Legal Week first revealed news of the deal last year (10 August, 2006).
The top 10 UK firm will transfer 79 professional staff as part of the deal, which covers various core support functions including the helpdesk network, infrastructure teams and its IT training specialists.
The departing staff are understood to come from offices across the firm’s national network, which includes a major call centre in Birmingham, and account for around 80% of its entire IT capability.
The shake-up follows a review of Eversheds’ IT function by director Malcolm Simms, who joined the national firm in 2005 from Disney, and made Eversheds the first major UK law firm to outsource one of its core support divisions.
A raft of firms have since followed Eversheds’ lead including Linklaters, which last week signed a new three-year IT outsourcing agreement with Unisys to cover the support and maintenance of the firm’s global data centre and infrastructure.
