Premier Foods, the UK’s largest food producer, has extended its ITO contract with Capgemini. The company will continue to be responsible for the management of Premier Foods’ data centres and technical support needs across all its business systems.

The deal, valued at approximately £9 million, will also see Capgemini host of Premier Foods’ new SAP systems for the next five years.

Phil McCallum, Director of IT & Infrastructure at Premier Foods, said, “We have had a successful relationship with Capgemini for a number of years. By extending this to cover the hosting of all of our environments, both legacy and SAP, we are able to simplify and increase the resilience of services. Capgemini won the business with a flexible and effective bid allowing Premier Foods to evolve over the coming years in line with business need. Since selecting Capgemini, a well executed transition from previous data centres has been undertaken.”

Capgemini is also working with Premier Foods on other business projects, including a new business intelligence system based on SAP, and a supply chain track-and-trace project for the company’s Hovis division.