The deal has come in the wake of a deal signed in September this year, which will see outsourcing giant EDS manage the bank's Adelaide-based mortgage processing operations.
After a lead time of just six weeks, Vectra managing director Chris Smerdon, said that the contract had come as a bit of a surprise and would lead to the company expanding its operations.
-It has come as a direct result of the EDS deal with Westpac, and they were looking for a partner that could begin to provide service as soon as possible," Smerdon said. -We are working closely with EDS, and have been for some time now so we expect the project to run very smoothly."
He went on to say that while this was among the largest IT infrastructure deals in the state, he believed the company would be able to maintain the growth spurt resulting from the deal.
-We will be putting on a few people, and while there will be a lot of work initially we will be able to spread the skills across our organisation," Smerdon said. -The market down here is very competitive, but there is also quite a bit of work around so we should be able to put on people on a fairly permanent basis."
The infrastructure deal consists in the roll out of over 1100 new IBM PCs in order to replace existing Pentium II diskless workstations.
