Press releases

Mar 05, 2009

The IT services company Steria has won an application management contract with the Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund. The agreement is worth approximately 5.5 million Euros (50 million Norwegian Kroner).

Steria will be managing and further developing a number of the Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund's applications and interactive solutions for a period of four years.

"In close collaboration with the Public Service Pension Fund, we will be setting up a smooth-functioning administration organisation. 10 of our employees will be working on the project, predominantly senior consultants. Management will be carried out from Oslo as well as Steria's Sundsvall division in Sweden," says Nils-Petter Kristiansen, ADAM Manager and Director of Offshore for Steria Norway.

Freeing up resources
"We are facing large development assignments in conjunction with the pension reforms. Equipped with the right application management system that is being handled by an experienced and robust player, our employees can concentrate on the PERFORM[1] project and on developing the pensions system of the future," says Cathrine Devold, Director of IT at the Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund.

[1] PERFORM is the name of a large IT project within Statens Pensjonskasse that aims to adapt the new national pension reform.