Mumbai: UK-based Network Rail has roped in five IT vendors, including TCS, Cognizant and Accenture to design, build and manage its IT infrastructure in a deal estimated at 350 million pounds.

"With more than 270 individual IT suppliers, Network Rail manages a variety of systems of varying complexity, including some that were designed as far back as the 1970s. Network Rail has signed framework agreements with five major IT suppliers as it begins to simplify its computing relationships," Network Rail today said in a statement.

The new "zero-sum" IT solutions and system integrator framework agreements with Accenture, BAE Systems Detica, Cognizant, CSC and Tata Consultancy Services, it added.

Network Rail is the owner (not for dividend) and operator of Britain's railway infrastructure, which includes tracks, signals, tunnels, bridges, level crossings and stations.

The agreements are designed to allow suppliers to take more ownership of designing, building and implementing IT solutions to support Network Rail, it said.

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