Credit: DLR.

January 20, 2010

Five-year contract worth over EUR 125 million won in Europe-wide invitation to tender


The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt - DLR) will also source all its basic IT services from T-Systems over the next five years.

The outsourcing contract governing services worth some EUR 125 million was signed by both parties in Cologne.

Klaus Hamacher, Vice Chairman of the Executive Board, is the DLR Executive Board member responsible for administrative and technical management, including personnel, finance, corporate controlling, corporate organisation, quality and product assurance, auditing, joint ventures, large-scale projects and career management. He is also responsible for DLR's technology marketing and serves as the representative for the DLR site in Berlin. Credit: DLR.

In addition, an option of extending the contract for another year has been agreed.

T-Systems had previously won the Europe-wide invitation to tender.


Everything from the telephone to the supercomputer


The agreed services include the further development, set-up, operation and support of computers, communication infrastructure and application systems as well as consulting services.

Backdropped by the blackness of space and Earth's horizon, the International Space Station moves away from the Space Shuttle Atlantis. Credit: NASA.

The portfolio includes everything from telephones, standardized and highly-specialized IT workstations, through to supercomputers and grid computing.

T-Systems has already been supporting the German Aerospace Center's ICT systems for the past ten years.

"We consistently source all basic IT services from external providers. This makes the German Aerospace Center a pioneer in the area of modern IT procurement for research institutions,“ said Dr. Hans-Joachim Popp, IT Manager and Chief Information Officer (CIO) at the center.
"The new invitation to tender gave us the opportunity to align the terms and conditions of the contract more closely to our changing requirements.”

Popp continued:
"The fact that our longstanding partner succeeded in open competition is a testimony to the quality of our previous cooperation."

T-Systems International was Deutsche Telekom's venture into the ICT market in 2001. The Deutsche Telekom subsidiary became Europe’s second-largest information technology (IT) and (tele)communications systems house. Photo: Deutsche Telekom AG

"With our subsidiary, T-Systems Solutions for Research, we have a strong service provider for the science and research field," said Reinhard Clemens, Member of the Deutsche Telekom Board of Management and CEO T-Systems.
"We are pooling the products and services of Deutsche Telekom to meet the unique requirements of the German Aerospace Center. From standard products, such as phones, to special services, such as supercomputers for calculation-intensive simulations, we deliver nationwide.”


About Deutsche Telekom AG


Deutsche Telekom is one of the world’s leading integrated telecommunications companies with over 150 million mobile customers, around 39 million fixed-network lines and approximately 17 million broadband lines (as of September 30, 2009).

In summer 1995, staff moved into Deutsche Telekom's Group Headquarters in Bonn. The protruding section, which draws the attention to the entrance, is one of the most eye-catching features of the premises on Friedrich-Ebert-Allee. Photo: Deutsche Telekom AG

Its product brands are T-Home (fixed-network telephony, broadband Internet), T-Mobile (mobile communications), and T-Systems (ICT solutions).

As an international Group with approximately 260,000 employees operating in around 50 countries worldwide (as of September 30, 2009), Deutsche Telekom generated more than half of its revenue – EUR 61.6 billion – outside of Germany in 2008.


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DLR at a glance


DLR is Germany's national research center for aeronautics and space.
Its extensive research and development work in aeronautics, space, transportation and energy is integrated into national and international cooperative ventures.

Credit: DLR.

As Germany's Space Agency, the German federal government has given DLR responsibility for the forward planning and implementation of the German space programme as well as international representation of Germany's interests.

Aeronautics and space make substantial contributions to the way we live today.
Aviation guarantees our global mobility and satellites enable worldwide communication.
Remote sensing generates data about our environment, while the exploration of space leads to new knowledge about the origin and development of the Solar System, its planets, and, hence, about the creation of life.

The DLR space agency in Bonn-Oberkassel. Photo: DLR

Moreover, key industries, including materials technology, medicine and software engineering, all profit from innovations made by DLR in the fields of aeronautics and space.

DLR’s mission thus comprises:

• exploration of the Earth and the solar system

• research aimed at protecting the environment

• development of environmentally-friendly technologies to promote mobility, communication and security.


DLR’s research portfolio ranges from fundamental research to innovative development of the applications and products of tomorrow.
In this way, DLR contributes the scientific and technical know-how that it has gained, thus enhancing Germany’s industrial and technological reputation.

DLR operates large-scale research facilities for the center’s own projects and as a service provider for clients and partners.
It also promotes the next generation of scientists, provides advisory services to the German government and is a driving force in the regions centred on its various locations.

Columbus Control Centre at DLR Oberpfaffenhofen. Credit: DLR.

Approximately 6500 people work for DLR; the center has 29 institutes and facilities at 13 locations in Germany: Berlin, Bonn, Braunschweig, Bremen, Cologne (headquarters), Goettingen, Hamburg, Lampoldshausen, Neustrelitz, Oberpfaffenhofen, Stuttgart, Trauen and Weilheim.
DLR also has offices in Brussels, Paris and Washington, D.C.

The DLR budget for in-house research and development work and other internal operations amounts to approximately €570 million, of which approximately half comes from revenues earned by DLR.
DLR also administers the space budget of the German government, which totals some €920 million (2008).


Contact

DLR Raumfahrt-Agentur
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)
Königswinterer Str. 522-524
53227 Bonn-Oberkassel
Tel.: +49 228 447-0
Fax: +49 228 447-700


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T-Systems – a strong Partner


Global corporations and European public institutions rely on T-Systems for Information and Communications Technology (ICT).

With a global infrastructure of computer centers and networks, T-Systems operates information and communications technology (ICT) for multinational corporations and public institutions.
On this basis, Deutsche Telekom’s corporate-customer unit offers integrated solutions for the connected future of business and society.

T-Systems Headquarters Photo: T-Systems

Some 46,000 employees combine industry expertise and ICT innovations to add noticeable value to their customers’ core business all over the world.

T-Systems generated revenue of around EUR 9,3 billion in the 2008 financial year.


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Reinhard Clemens

Member of the Deutsche Telekom Board of Management
and CEO T-Systems.

Reinhard Clemens, Member of the Deutsche Telekom Board of Management and CEO T-Systems. Photo: Deutsche Telekom AG

Reinhard Clemens, born in 1960, has been the Member of the Board of Management at Deutsche Telekom AG responsible for T-Systems since December, 2007, and also holds the position of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of T-Systems.

Clemens launched his career as General Manager of the Association for Industry Automation in 1990.
In 1994, Mr. Clemens began his career at IBM, holding various positions in sales, service and outsourcing until he left the company in 2001 to join Systematics AG.
There he served as member of the board of management responsible for sales.

In 2001, Reinhard Clemens began working for EDS in Germany.
As the chairman of the executive board, he was responsible for sales, business operations and strategy in Central Europe.

He graduated with a degree in electrical engineering from the RWTH Aachen University in Aachen, Germany, having also worked as a research assistant for the machine tool engineering chair at the same university.


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