(Oslo, 15 October 2019): Elhub enters into a five-year contract with its partners Basefarm and SYSCO for the IT operation, monitoring and security of Elhub. The contract value is in the order of NOK 130 million.
Elhub AS operates a national IT system that supports and streamlines market processes such as power sales, establishment/relocation, cessation and the like in the Norwegian power market, as well as distribution and aggregation of measurement values for all consumption and production in Norway. The company is owned by Statnett SF.
Basefarm and SYSCO have now been assigned the main responsibility for operating, monitoring and securing this central solution for the Norwegian energy industry. The tender was divided in two parts with business-critical IT operations as one part and top-level Oracle expertise as the other. Basefarm and SYSCO jointly delivered and won the tender, which is worth in the order of NOK 130 million for the five-year contract period.
“We look forward to working together with Basefarm and SYSCO. These are companies that demonstrate competitive Norwegian IT expertise,” says CEO Tor Bjarne Heiberg of Elhub AS.
About SYSCO
SYSCO is a driving force for digitization and efficiency in the Nordic region and holds a leading position in the energy sector. The company provides products, consultants and services, including a top-level technical environment at Oracle.
About Basefarm, a company in the Orange Business Services SA Company
Basefarm is a European Managed Service Provider of business-critical IT solutions. The company creates market leaders by integrating the key competencies for digital transformation – big data, cloud computing and information security, into one service offering. Our delivery model covers the entire spectrum from innovation through commissioning to continuous production, including strategy consulting, implementation projects and infrastructure operations with a common operating model regardless of the cloud platform chosen. Basefarm was established in Norway in 2000 where the company also provides data centre services. A team of over 760 IT engineers and consultants services global clients from European offices and data centres in Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands, Germany and Austria.
For more information, contact Dagfinn Ringås at SYSCO on 97 143 146 or Robert Baumann at Basefarm on 982 42 56 0