Hewitt Associates to provide HR BPO services to UK's Centrica

Hewitt Associates, a global human resources services company, announced that it will provide HR business process outsourcing (BPO) services to Centrica plc, a leading utility and energy organization based in the United Kingdom.

Under a seven-and-a-half-year contract (including a six-month transition period), Hewitt will provide a full range of HR BPO services, including workforce administration, payroll, customer service, reward management, performance management and succession planning to 30,000 Centrica employees in the UK.

Hewitt announced the Centrica letter of intent as an unnamed client on its Fiscal 2006 First Quarter earnings call in February 2006. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.