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New contracts and extensions

Major new contracts and extensions secured in 2009

Total value: £1bn, 15 contracts
2008: £1.24bn, 17 contracts

NEW AXA Sun Life

Value: £523m 15 years

Service commencement: June 2009

Division: Life & Pensions Services

To administer 3.2 million mature life and pensions policies including customer servicing, policy admin, claims activity and related IT support.

NEW Breckland Council

Value: £40m 15 years

Service commencement: June 2009

Division: Integrated Services

To provide planning and building control services to the Council and create a new Capita Symonds’ business unit based at the Council’s offices.

NEWLearning and Skills Council (LSC)

Value: £68m 4 years

Contract commencement: May 2009

Division: Integrated Services

To administer a range of allowances to support learners, including the Education Maintenance Allowance and the Adult Learning Grant.

NEW Office for National Statistics (ONS)

Value: £25m 2.5 years

Service commencement: May 2009

Division: Integrated Services

To recruit, train and administer the pay of all temporary ONS workers who will work as field staff for the 2011 Census of Population and Housing in England and Wales.

EXTENSION Department for Children, Schools
and Families (DCSF)

Value: £64m 1 years

Contract commencement: March 2010

Division: Professional Services

National Strategies contract extended from end of March 2010 to 31 March 2011. Following this, National Strategies is being discontinued by Government.

NEW BBC Audience Services

Value: c.£45m 9 years

Contract commencement: August 2009

Division: Integrated Services

Awarded new contract to handle viewers’ and listeners’ complaints, comments and enquiries via phone calls, emails, SMS and letters. Also to provide action lines for issue-related programming, audience management and ticketing and daily feedback.

NEW NHS Business Services Authority (NHS BSA)

Value: £100m 7 years

Service commencement: July 2010

Division: ICT, Health & Business Services

To provide processing and payments of 40 million dental claims and a managed IT service to support the Authority, its current portfolio of activities and future growth.

NEW Becta (Home Access Programme)

Value: £15.7m 17 months

Service commencement: October 2009

Division: Integrated Services

To manage grant marketing and administration for the Government’s Home Access programme, which provides computers and internet connectivity to low-income families to support learning.

+8 contracts and renewals worth between £10m and £50m secured with an aggregate value of £159m