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The newly created French National Payroll Agency Operateur National de Paye (ONP) has awarded a nine-year contract for the design, build and implementation of a new national payroll system to a consortium led by Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and including Logica & HR Access.

The new payroll system will be developed over a three-year period with a phased deployment scheduled to begin in January 2012. This will be followed by a six-year phase to manage the progressive roll out of three million payroll records through to 2016 and the application maintenance through to 2018. The new system will replace the current payroll system that was introduced in the 1970s.

Accenture and Logica will provide overall program management and systems integration services for the design, build, and implementation of the new system. HR Access will provide the core payroll application, which will be based on the HRa Suite solution that will be customized according to the specifications of the project. HR Access will manage the delivery, maintenance and development of this application.

The French state established ONP in 2007 to modernize the payroll management of its civil servants. The new national payroll system will serve as a joint, scalable and integrated solution for all French ministries and public entities of the French State. It is designed to improve the management and control of civil servants’ payroll and deliver a simplified system to the French government.

Bull and Sopra Group are subcontractors to the consortium. Bull will deliver the secured infrastructure and associated services while Sopra Group is responsible for building the data exchange system.