Nectar, the United Kingdom’s leading coalition loyalty programme has extended its IT contract agreement with IT service provider, Savvis.

Under the terms of the agreement, Savvis will continue to manage the underlying IT infrastructure that supports Nectar’s core business applications, including its point redemption, data warehouse and financial systems as well as managing its private networks, security and utility-based data storage infrastructure.

Savvis will also continue to host www.nectar.com, which processes thousands of transactions per day from consumers and businesses and provides access to more than 300 online retailers such as Amazon.co.uk and eBay.

Fiachra Woodman, IT Director at Groupe Aeroplan UK, the owners of Nectar, commented, “We’ve had a very successful and close working relationship with Savvis for the past eight years. We have benefited greatly from the speed and flexibility of their Utility Computing platform.”