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Accenture ties up with European Parliament

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BRUSSELS: Accenture has signed a €12million (approx US$16.5 million) IT application services agreement with the European Parliament to develop, maintain and support a variety of applications across the Parliament’s operations.

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The agreement is designed to support the European Parliament’s overall information technology strategy and to drive greater operational efficiencies across the institution, said a press release.

This contract, awarded after a competitive public procurement process, will provide application development, maintenance and support for the European Parliament. Accenture will oversee the development and integration of new applications across functional areas such as human resources, finance, logistics and administrative management.

Sean Shine, managing director of Accenture Health and Public Service practice in Europe, Africa and Latin America, said, “For the European Parliament, Accenture will analyze, design, build, test and implement new functions and applications as a managed service over the next four years. We are very pleased to be working with the European Parliament for the first time.”