City of Edinburgh Council Awards Seven Year £186 Million Transformational ICT Outsourcing & Digital Services Contract to CGI

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200 New Jobs and 60 Modern Apprenticeships to be Created

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CGI has been selected by the City of Edinburgh Council to provide
transformational outsourced ICT services
[http://www.cgi.com/en/it-outsourcing-services ] to enable the
Council's introduction of integrated digital services. The contract,
valued at GBP186 million, will facilitate the Council's digital
channel shift, while at the same time, delivering anticipated
efficiency and cost savings of GBP45 million over the seven year
term. As well as delivering cost savings, CGI is committing to the
development of Edinburgh's economy with the creation of over 200 new
jobs and more than 60 modern apprentices as well as investment in
social enterprises and community groups. There are options to extend
the contract, initially by five years, with further extension options
after that period.

As well as delivering digital services for Edinburgh's citizens,
encouraging them to carry out transactions online, the city's schools
will also benefit from the modernisation of their ICT infrastructure,
with an improvement of bandwidth speeds available to primary and
secondary schools, providing students with greater access to online
educational tools.

CGI will also update ICT systems across all Council service areas
and automate and integrate back-office processes with a new
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. The new ERP system will
integrate with citizen-facing digital platforms to enable cost
reductions and increased capacity, while improving service quality,
securing more effective and efficient citizen engagement. The digital
self-service platform will be based on a specialist local government
platform to enable multi-channel self-service to be integrated with
back office systems.

"We are delighted to partner with the City of Edinburgh Council as
we embark together on this journey to enable the digital
transformation of public services throughout Edinburgh," said Steve
Thorn, SVP CGI UK Public Sector. "This is an ambitious programme that
will change the way citizens access and use public services and will
introduce new ways of working for the Council's employees, ultimately
making their jobs more productive and satisfying. This programme will
pave the way to improve service delivery more cost effectively that
will be a benchmark for other local authorities in the move to
delivering digital public services."

"CGI has an established business hub in Edinburgh and we will be
expanding to create more jobs to support our engagement with the City
of Edinburgh Council and its public sector partners. These roles will
cover a wide range of areas and responsibilities from experienced
ICT, networking, digital and cyber security professionals, to the
creation of over 60 modern apprentices to provide school leavers with
the exciting opportunities of a career in ICT with CGI."

Councillor Alasdair Rankin, Convener of the City of Edinburgh
Council's Finance and Resources Committee, said: "The Council is
delighted to be entering into partnership with CGI. In signing this
contract we will transform the way we do business.

"People are at the heart of our organisation whether they are
citizens, staff or working in the city's economy. One of the
exciting things CGI will do is to speed up our move to greater online
capability giving residents and businesses greater flexibility to
engage with the Council and carry out their transactions digitally.
This will make us a more efficient and effective organisation across
our wide range of Council services."

As part of CGI's SME Accelerate programme, local small/medium
enterprises (SMEs) will be included in CGI's supply chain and this
will increase over the lifetime of the contract. In order to support
City of Edinburgh Council's aim to establish itself as leader in
local government innovation and adoption of digital platforms to
include all citizens and stakeholders, CGI will contribute to a
jointly financed innovation fund, which will explore new ideas, and
pilot new technology for the benefit of the Council and the citizens
of Edinburgh. The innovation programme will provide opportunities for
local SMEs to work with CGI to introduce digital and social media
services as part of the Council's Digital by Desire strategy.

About CGI

Founded in 1976, CGI Group Inc. is the fifth largest independent
information technology and business process services firm in the
world. Approximately 68,000 professionals serve thousands of global
clients from offices and delivery centers across the Americas, Europe
and Asia Pacific, leveraging a comprehensive portfolio of services,
including high-end business and IT consulting, systems integration,
application development and maintenance, and infrastructure
management, as well as a wide range of proprietary solutions. With
annual revenue in excess of C$10 billion and an order backlog of
approximately C$20 billion, CGI shares are listed on the TSX (GIB.A)
and the NYSE (GIB). Website: http://www.cgi.com.

CGI is supporting Team Scotland in the build up to the
Commonwealth Games in Australia's Gold Coast in 2018 as official
systems integration, BPS and IT outsourcing partner. The company is
also reinforcing the artistic partnership of Scotland with Quebec,
with sponsorship of Quebec@ Edinburgh 2015 at the Edinburgh
Festivals.

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amended, and Section 21E of the United States Securities Exchange Act
of 1934, as amended, and are "forward-looking information" within the
meaning of Canadian securities laws. These statements and this
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of which many are beyond the control of the Company. These factors
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reliance on these forward-looking statements or on this
forward-looking information.

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Global Communications and Investor Relations, lorne.gorber@cgi.com,
+1-514-841-3355; Local Media: Janine Bailey, Vice-President,
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