ACS Awarded IT Outsourcing Contract Providing SAP Hosting for TIC Holdings, Inc.

DALLAS, March 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. , a premier provider of business process outsourcing and information technology solutions, announced today that it has been awarded an information technology (IT) support contract with TIC Holdings, Inc. (TICH). TICH is a holding company for a leading heavy industrial construction contractor and other related contractor companies.

Under the terms of the 39-month agreement, ACS will provide a comprehensive SAP enterprise resource planning solution, including technology and infrastructure facilities, implementation, technical support and operations, network management, and help desk support services.

"We knew that an SAP environment will enhance our business, but much of the technical infrastructure necessary to develop and manage it fell outside the scope of what we wanted to do in-house," said John Harris, TICH's Vice President of Information Systems. "Our cost-effective partnership with ACS provides us with highly capable experts to handle this critical area of our business, along with the technical infrastructure necessary to support it, so that we can focus on effectively applying SAP's capabilities in our business."

Harris also praised ACS' role in the co-creation of TICH's virtual private network, which has been specially designed to address the company's extensive offsite access requirements. "This is a major factor in our ability to efficiently and securely deploy SAP across our many remote offices and jobsites," Harris explained. "From the beginning, ACS has worked closely with us to make sure our business needs are addressed both now and in the long term."

"ACS customizes SAP solutions with each client's unique profile in mind," said Mike O'Hara, ACS Senior Managing Director of ITO Solutions. "That flexibility, along with our commitment to cutting costs, and staying at the leading edge of technological capabilities, is what distinguishes our hosting services as world class. This contract with TICH affirms our position as a leader among SAP solution providers."

Along with its extensive achievements in business process outsourcing, ACS is experiencing tremendous growth in its IT solutions business and is one of the world's leading providers of SAP-hosted solutions. A leading IT outsourcing provider across numerous industries, ACS currently operates multiple large mainframe and midrange data centers, manages numerous networks, and administers desktops around the globe.

Companies under the TICH umbrella are involved in construction for a variety of industrial clients, including producers of power, coal, food and beverages, minerals and precious metals, pulp and paper, and oil, gas and chemicals. TICH entities also perform marine, pipeline, electrical, and water and wastewater facilities construction, as well as providing industrial plant maintenance services. TICH is headquartered in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Learn more about TICH at http://www.ticus.com/ .

ACS, a global FORTUNE 500 company with more than 55,000 people supporting client operations reaching nearly 100 countries, provides business process outsourcing and information technology solutions to world-class commercial and government clients. The Company's Class A common stock trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "ACS". ACS makes technology work. Visit ACS on the Internet at http://www.acs-inc.com/ .

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