BT has secured a major £32 million network services contract with Sellafield.
The deal between the technology and telecoms firm and Sellafield, operator of the UK’s largest nuclear site, will cover the running and maintaining of the company’s entire network services, as well as upgrades and updates to current equipment.
The contract will include wide and local area network services, core and gateway services, as well as audio and conferencing, telephony and cybersecurity. Upgrades to the network will also enable Sellafield to take advantage of new technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT) and 5G in the future.
The contract is one of a number that Sellafield is letting as part of its multi-supplier model for ICT delivery. The model improves the flexibility and agility of the company’s IT services and will see new tools, technologies and capabilities brought to Sellafield.
As part of the five-year contract BT has also agreed to provide £2 million of funding for local social value initiatives in the west Cumbria area which will be distributed using the expertise of the Sellafield social impact team to activities that align with its ‘social impact multiplied’ strategy.
“We are really pleased to have secured this major contract with Sellafield and look forward to working in partnership with them to create a network that is secure, fast, reliable and future-proofed, with the added capability to overlay new technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), 5G and IoT in the future,” said Ashish Gupta, MD Corporate and Public Sector for BT’s Enterprise unit.
“In a major boost for the local area, not only will we deliver Digital Transformation for Sellafield as part of the contract, but we’ll also provide a significant boost to the local community too. Over the life of the partnership, we will be investing £2 million into west Cumbria to help tackle the causes of inequality among the area’s most vulnerable people.”
“It is really positive to see such a significant commitment from BT as part of this contract to support the delivery of our social impact multiplied programme,” said Tracey West, Social Impact Manager at Sellafield. “I am looking forward to working with BT to maximise the local impact from its financial contribution.”
Sellafield employs around 11,000 people who work at the west Cumbrian nuclear site and a number of off-site offices in Cumbria and Warrington.
The BT network will incorporate Wi-Fi, a unified communications programme to consolidate conferencing solutions such as Teams and Skype, and in-built security to enable the handling and processing of sensitive data.
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