Cardiff City Council has signed a long term partnership with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) in a bid to help drive the council's mission-critical ‘Strategic Transformational Change Programme’.

TCS will work closely with the Council's ICT Service to help deliver more efficient systems whilst both parties will benefit from an exchange of knowledge and experience.

This strategic partnership is said to pay dividends for the city’s residents by improving the day to day operations and improving service delivery, which is thought to have a total value of £150 million over its 15-year lifetime.

Cardiff Council Leader, Rodney Berman is optimistic about the partnership. He said, the council wants TCS to “bring their global technical expertise and private sector commercial know-how to support a major change to the way in which the council's technology infrastructure supports its day to day operations, this exciting collaboration will help us make savings in our spending on technology and enable the council to raise money through the development of technology-enabled products”.