Xerox wins BT document contract

Print and copier company Xerox has won a contract to service BT's print and reprographic facilities across the UK.

Xerox claimed that the project is the largest document management project in UK and will save the telco between £5m and £10m by the end of the contract term.

As a result of the contract, BT will reduce the number of its reprographic centres while continuing to provide document services to 120,000 employees.

The 66 staff employed in this section will change over to Xerox and although they will be retained, they may not all continue to work on the BT account.

BT employees currently generate around 300 million page impressions a year.

Rob Walker, UK MD of Xerox, conceded it was odd for a company which espouses the take-up of technology to its customers to embark on digitising its own document management so recently.

He said: "A complete range of digital documentation products, have, up to now, been few and far between. The timing for this project is probably just right."