Portugal UK Research Councils to implement shared services with Fujitsu

Peter Telford, chief executive of RCUK SSC Ltd commented, “We will deliver an integrated, more efficient and effective service to all the Research Councils. We are pleased to be working with Fujitsu on this challenging venture and look forward to delivering quality services for the benefit of the research community.”

Eithne Wallis CB, managing director of Government Business, Fujitsu Services, commented, “Fujitsu is consistently proving that it can deliver effective shared services infrastructures and is playing a vital role in driving forward the transformational government agenda through shared services. Organisations that adopt a shared services approach can experience genuine economies of scale and reduction in costs which can be essential in their drive for continuous improvement. This initiative will strengthen support for the Research Councils’ researchers, whose work is vital in the development of science and innovation in the UK.”

Each year the Research Councils invest around £2.8 billion in research covering the full spectrum of academic disciplines from the medical and biological sciences to astronomy, physics, chemistry and engineering, social sciences, economics, environmental sciences and the arts and humanities. Current priorities include energy, living with environmental change, global threats to security and ageing: lifelong health and wellbeing.