CAT Group, the worldwide provider of transport and logistics services, has awarded EDS a seven-year ITO contract to develop, integrate, deploy and support all of the company’s software applications.

This contract builds upon an existing IT infrastructure agreement CAT Group awarded to EDS in 2005. Under that agreement, which includes network management and governance and continues through 2015, EDS continues to manage CAT Group’s entire IT infrastructure, which includes 2,000 work stations at 131 sites in 19 countries.

Alejandro Forbes, CEO of the CAT Group, said: “With this new agreement, we are expecting a high level of IT cost optimization, valued at about $44 million over the next five years”.