The European Commission has awarded Sword Group, a leading international IT services vendor, a €69 million four year framework contract for the provision of IT services for the Commission’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7).

The FP7 has succeeded the Commission’s FP6 framework programme and is responsible for allocating €53.2 billion in research, education and innovation grants in the coming seven years. Under the terms of the contract Sword will be responsible for a variety of processes including: Developing customised Information Systems, providing technical support and maintenance and enhancements of existing FP7 IT applications.

This contract sees a significant expansion in the service Sword currently provides to the Commission and the company expects to grow its onsite team of technical resources in the Commission by around 100 percent.

This latest contract is one of a number of recent public sector contract wins for Sword Group.