United Kingdom

EDS, now HP, was established in the United Kingdom (UK) in 1984. Since then, the business in the region has grown substantially and HP Enterprise Services now serves more than 120 major clients across most industry sectors.

HP UK headquarters are based in Wood Street, London. There are over 200 other sites in the UK, hosting in the region of 16,500 employees.

Public Sector

• The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)—HP has been providing IT services and delivering modernization programs for the various agencies and departments now encompassed within the DWP, since 1989. HP supports most of DWP’s business systems including pension credit, child support, income support and incapacity benefit, as well as supporting Jobcentre Plus and the Job Banks.
• Ministry of Defence (MOD)—HP has served military and secure government clients for more than 30 years. HP is the prime contractor on many of the MOD’s major IT programs. Also, as prime contractor in the ATLAS consortium, HP is central to the successful delivery of the Defence Information Infrastructure (Future) (DII(f)). DII(f) is a major contract running over ten years and will replace numerous individual information systems throughout the MoD with a single more efficient information infrastructure.
• Ministry of Justice—HP works with the UK’s Ministry of Justice includes the successful delivery of the Computerised-National Offender Management Information System (C-NOMIS), which will help join-up information across departments, tracking the progress of offenders during their time in prison and on probation.

Commercial Sector

In the UK, HP commercial operations focus on financial services, manufacturing, telecommunications, energy and utilities, and consumer industries.

Private sector clients include British Airways, BP, Vodafone, Rolls-Royce, Lloyds TSB, Royal Bank of Scotland, Thorntons and Scottish and Newcastle.

• Transport for London (TfL)—As part of the Transys consortium, HP developed, marketed and continues to administer the Oyster smart card, enabling paperless travel throughout TfL’s network. Oyster has revolutionized travel in London, letting cardholders purchase season tickets, view travel histories and check balances at any TfL station.
• Scottish & Newcastle—HP recently supported Scottish and Newcastle as they embarked on an aggressive migration project moving their key business users from a mainframe platform to a UNIX-based system enabling IT to deliver an improved service and cost savings.

Office Locations

Hampshire

Bartley Wood Business Park
Unit A/B, Suite 1–3
Bartley Way, Bartley Wood
Hook, Hampshire RG27 9XA
England

phone: 44 1256 742 000
fax: 44 1256 742 786

London (HP Europe, Middle East & Africa)

88 Wood Street
London EC2V 7QT
United Kingdom

phone: 44 0870 013 0790 (international: 44 207 949 0300)
fax: 44 207 600 6609

Country Leaders

Mike Nefkens, Senior Vice President & General Manager

HP Enterprise Services Europe, Middle East & Africa

Craig Wilson, Managing Director and Regional Vice President

HP Enterprise Services UK & Ireland

Huw Owen, Regional Vice President and Managing Director

HP Enterprise Services Defence & Security and MEMA

Howard Hughes, Vice President and General Manager

HP Enterprise Services, Department of Work & Pensions