Flemish Public Employment Service Selects EDS for New Infrastructure Management Contract

Flemish Public Employment Service Selects EDS for New Infrastructure
Management Contract
EDS Belgium Continues to Win Market Share in the Public Sector

PLANO, Texas and BRUSSELS, Belgium, April 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- EDS
today announced the Flemish Public Employment Service (VDAB) agency has
selected EDS as its new partner to manage its information communication
technology (ICT) infrastructure. The contract has a six-year term and is worth
approximately euro 50 million (US$74 million).
Under the contract, EDS will provide a range of infrastructure services,
including user support, user infrastructure management and maximum
availability of the ICT environment for the agency's customers and partners.
EDS will provide desktop support to more than 5,000 users in 200-plus
locations and manage approximately 100 servers.
"An open infrastructure that allows efficient collaboration with the
various partners is crucial to support VDAB's steering role in the Flemish
labor market," said Fons Leroy, managing director of VDAB. "In the coming
years, the challenge is to bring about innovation and synergy with the Flemish
government, and VDAB has chosen to take on this challenge together with EDS."
"Together with my team we negotiated a transparent and flexible
outsourcing model that allows change and encourages a competitive pricing,"
said Paul Danneels, CIO of VDAB. "We are looking for innovation in support of
further strengthening VDAB's pioneer role in career guidance and education
infrastructure. This contract will also allow us to cooperate with the Flemish
Government in various areas."
"For this contract EDS has established a balanced cooperation with local
subcontractors," said Jan Cleeren, sales manager for the Belgium public
sector. "Together with Belgacom and Econocom, we will deploy the best experts
to be able to meet the high execution demands typical for this agreement."
"We are proud to be selected as the preferred partner for this important
contract and that after 10 years, EDS returns to VDAB as their ICT service
provider," said Eric Van Bael, managing director of EDS Belgium.
EDS is a leader in the European market and is therefore well positioned to
execute the full range of services of system and business application
management, service desk, server and storage infrastructure, LAN management
and security. The WAN network will be managed by Belgacom, who will also
provide datacenter services. Econocom will see to the intervention services.
EDS' transparent and flexible price setting guarantees a competitive offer
that allows for innovation initiatives.
About VDAB
The VDAB is the Flemish agency for work and job training that provides a
platform for job seekers and employers. To perform this important social task
as well as possible, the VDAB provides a relatively accessible, high quality
and free service to all job seekers and employers. The VDAB defines its
mission as follows: "Guiding and executing, as a public service provider,
wishing to work towards a transparent and dynamic labour market in Flanders
for job seekers, employees and employers."
In 2006 the number of registered job seekers was 672,426 and a total of
327,203 job seekers were referred to vacancies by the counsellors. Job seekers
have access to job vacancies through different channels: job computers, the
service line, the counsellors, teletext and the Internet. The number of
consultations counted 7.29 million in 2006, an average of 607,953 per month.
About EDS
EDS (NYSE: EDS) is a leading global technology services company delivering
business solutions to its clients. EDS founded the information technology
outsourcing industry 45 years ago. Today, EDS delivers a broad portfolio of
information technology and business process outsourcing services to clients in
the manufacturing, financial services, healthcare, communications, energy,
transportation, and consumer and retail industries and to governments around
the world. Learn more at eds.com.
The statements in this news release that are not historical statements,
including statements regarding the amount of new contract values, are forward-
looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws. These
statements are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties, many of which are
beyond EDS' control, which could cause actual results to differ materially
from such statements. For information concerning these risks and
uncertainties, see EDS' most recent Form 10-K. EDS disclaims any intention or
obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a
result of new information, future events or otherwise.
CONTACTS:
Blake Hull - EDS US Greet Sysmans - EDS Belgium
1 972 605 5063 32 473 993363
blake.hull@eds.com greet.sysmans@eds.com

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Blake Hull of EDS US, +1-972-605-5063, blake.hull@eds.com, or Greet Sysmans of
EDS Belgium, 32 473 993363, greet.sysmans@eds.com