It looks like EDS may have plans for their JPA contract.
The Observer
IT workers under threat as EDS moves jobs offshore
Richard Brooks
Sunday December 3, 2006
Fears are growing for the future of hundreds of British jobs following disclosures that Texas-based Electronic Data Systems, the largest supplier of IT services to the UK government, is set to offshore thousands more jobs next year, documents seen by The Observer reveal.
The move will inflame already strained industrial relations at EDS. The company is facing an employment tribunal in 2007 over its handling of 80 redundancies on Ministry of Defence and Department of Work and Pensions contracts.
The offshoring proposal is part of an EDS global restructuring known as the 'Best-shore Strategy 2007'. Under the plan, staff numbers in global service centres in India, China, Argentina, Hungary and Poland will more than double to over 13,500 next year. The bulk of the offshored work is in IT applications and user support. The company insists the work will go to the most appropriate location and not just the cheapest.
It is not known how many offshored jobs will come from government contracts, which account for over half of EDS's UK business.
So much for helpline support!
