IT consultancy firm Accenture has been chosen by the London Organising Committee (Locog) for the 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympics Games to run the events back office systems, which will include its finance and accounting, the London 2012 workforce and procurement functions.
The committee said in a statement that the Accenture contract will not cover games time operating systems or the core games management systems that relay results, events, athlete information to spectators and media around the world at games times.
These IT systems will be provided by consultants
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Accenture beat BT Global Services, IBM and CMG to win the contract.
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