Corporate Infotech bags 7-year IT infra contract from ONGC

22 Nov 2024 CW Team

Corporate Infotech (CIPL) has secured a significant seven-year contract worth Rs 98 crore from state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) for overhauling the company’s IT infrastructure. Under the contract, CIPL will provide on-premise IT Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) on a 'Pay-per-Use' basis, with the contract slated for execution until September 2031.

The project aims to enhance ONGC’s IT hardware infrastructure, including its Corporate Infocom Data Centre (CIDC) in Delhi and disaster recovery site in Vadodara, Gujarat. As part of ONGC’s ongoing digital transformation journey, this project will focus on future-proofing the corporation's operations, ensuring data replication, disaster recovery, and application management services are seamlessly integrated.

Vinod Kumar, Managing Director and CEO of CIPL, highlighted that this contract reflects the company’s ability to manage complex IT infrastructure needs while offering flexible, consumption-based solutions. The deal is a testament to CIPL’s growing prominence in the IT solutions sector.

CIPL, founded in 2007, is one of India’s largest IT hardware solutions providers, and the company recently secured a similar Rs 114 crore contract from IndianOil to maintain IT infrastructure across the public sector enterprise’s various divisions.

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