HP and Bank of India have announced that they have won a leading IT outsourcing award.

The firms’ IT outsourcing contract came out on top in the Best IT Infrastructure category of the Outsourcing Center’s Outsourcing Excellence Awards.

HP manages the bank’s entire IT infrastructure, including data warehousing, core banking solution and document imaging for more than 1,000 branches, as well as maintaining data centre, call centre, help desk and disaster recovery facilities.

Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, the editor of Outsourcing Center, said: “Bank of India and HP won because their relationship is a perfect example of how companies should work together…instead of pointing fingers whenever challenges arise, they worked through them with mutual respect, trust, and open communication”.

Som Mittal, the senior vice president of HP Services’ technology solutions Asia Pacific arm, added: “The relationship between Bank of India and HP is one of the largest IT outsourcing engagements in India and in the financial services industry in Asia Pacific.”

It is the second time that the pair’s contract has been the subject of an Outsourcing Center award, after it picked up the prize in the Best First Steps category in 2005.