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HP Gets $40 Million Services Contract

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Generalitat de Catalunya (CTTI), an institution of the government of Catalonia, has signed an agreement valued at $40 million for HP to modernize the organization’s applications environments.

Under the terms of the six-year agreement, HP will provide applications services to the government of Catalonia. The company will use its Transformation and Integration Services and Applications Management Services to manage CTTI applications.

HP will provide these services from its facilities in Spain. VASS, an IT consultancy specializing in new technologies, and product and service integration, will assist HP in delivering these services, says the company. 

HP currently provides a variety of IT Infrastructure Outsourcing Services and Applications Services to the Government of Catalonia.

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