The UK’s Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has signed a six-year contract with Fujitsu to manage around 140,000 desktop computers for its staff.

Fujitsu claim the contract is the single biggest desktop outsource deal in the UK.

The contract will enable the DWP to make savings on desk-side support and hardware costs and reduced electricity consumption which will bring the DWP’s carbon footprint down.

Joe Harley, DWP IT director general & chief information officer said: “This is the first in a series of competitions to replace our existing IT and telephony services contracts by 2015 and it sets the tone by delivering significant benefits for the DWP and as a framework for Government wide IT.”