The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), the global body for professional accountants has awarded Atos Origin an £8m contract. Under the five-year contract, Atos Origin will take over management of the IT infrastructure that supports ACCA’s 122,000 members and 325,000 students worldwide through a network of 80 offices and centres.

To deliver the contract, Atos Origin will use its global sourcing model to provide the services from its offices in the UK and service desks in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Atos Origin will also lead a transformation programme to ensure that the IT infrastructure can better handle peaks in usage, for example, just before the deadline for examination entries and when the examination results are first published.