Another huge outsourcing contract for BP AMOCO

BP Amoco has awarded MCI WorldCom a five-year $650M contract for global telecommunications services. This follows on the ten-year $1bn contract recently announced for the outsourcing of back office business processes to PricewaterhouseCooper.

The MCI WorldCom deal, says BP Amoco's John Leggate, "is a crucial step to ensuring that we establish a leadership position in e-business."

"Technology is changing the link between our company and the consumer. It's giving us the opportunity to improve capital efficiency and creating whole new business opportunities," he added.

The move will allow BP Amoco to migrate its current regional telecommunications infrastructures to a single global platform. MCI WorldCom will design, implement and manage a new platform providing BP Amoco with flexibility and rapid scalability across six continents and 85 countries.

Elliott Chase