Proctor and Gamble, the consumer goods giant, has selected BT for an ITO contract worth over £330 million.

BT is tasked to provide a broad and integrated portfolio of services in support of P&G's IT requirements. This includes WAN infrastructure across more than 1,100 locations in more than 82 countries and the migration of P&G’s legacy infrastructure across to state-of-the-art, high-speed network technology. BT will also manage security, conferencing, remote access, voice and IP telephony services and Internet services.

By standardising the technology used across the business P&G hopes to benefit from greater cost efficiency and control whilst increasing quality of customer service.  The network infrastructure and associated applications are also designed to ensure compliance with numerous policy, regulatory and security standards.