Automobile manufacturer Ford has extended its IT outsourcing deal with business solutions and managed services provider CSC.

Under the agreement, CSC will continue to provide essential infrastructure and application management services for the Ford customer service division in Europe, operating across 19 European offices, including UK branches in the North West, West Midlands and Oxfordshire.

The partnership between Ford and CSC was established 15 years ago and it has evolved to include offshore services to its Europe and US operations.

When CSC acquired IT services company Covansys in 2007, the scope of work expanded to include the offshore IT services provided by Covansys to Ford of Europe and North America.

This follows CSC's announcement last week of a $580m deal with financial services giant UBS for networking services.