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Serco Group has won a £140m six-year contract from Transport for London to create and operate the London cycle hire scheme. 13-Aug-2009 Serco has won a £600m contract to build and operate two new prisons at Belmarsh in London and Maghull on Merseyside by 2011. 30-Jun-2009 Serco has won a £140m contract to provide catering, cleaning and portering services to Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust. 08-Jun-2009 Serco is to form a £500m joint venture with Guy's and St Thomas's hospitals in London to operate their pathology departments under the name of GSTS Pathology, and similar services will be offered to other NHS trusts. 02-Feb-2009 Serco has acquired SI International, the US provider of information services and network solutions with 4,500 staff, for £363m. 31-Dec-2008 Serco is to acquire InfoVision Group, the Indian business process outsourcing firm with 10,000 staff, for an initial £13m. 12-Dec-2008 Glasgow City Council is considering plans to outsource its property and computer services to a new joint venture company formed with Serco, with the transfer of almost 300 staff. 05-Dec-2007 Serco Group is to acquire Cornwell Management Consultants, the Surrey-based IT consultancy, for about £7m. 25-Apr-2007 Serco has been selected as preferred bidder for a £400m contract to provide support laboratories and offices for the Ministry of Defence. 15-Aug-2005 Serco and Equion have been selected as preferred bidder by the University of Leicester NHS Trust for the £1.2bn refurbishment and maintenance of three Leicester hospitals. 21-Mar-2005 Serco has acquired ITNet, the IT services company, for £235m and RCI of the US for £113m. 20-Dec-2004 Serco Group and NedRailways have formed a joint venture that has been selected as preferred bidder for the Northern Rail franchise, which is due to start in the autumn. 02-Jul-2004 Serco has been selected as preferred bidder for a £300m contract to provide prison escort services in London and the south east for the Prison Service, while Reliance Security is preferred bidder in South Wales and the west. 26-Feb-2004 Serco is to acquire Tecknical, the online learning business of Feedback, for £0.4m. 05-Jan-2004 Serco has lost the contract to handle National Rail Enquiries, casting doubt on the future of 420 jobs at its call centre in Cardiff, and an announcement about who has won the contract is expected later this month. 05-Dec-2003 Serco has acquired the remaining 50% of Premier Custodial Group for £49m, in order to strengthen its position in the market for the management of prisons, secure training centres and immigration centres. 04-Jul-2003 Serco and NedRailways have been selected as joint preferred bidder for the Merseyrail Electrics franchise, and the two companies are hoping to follow this up with further rail franchises across the country. 24-Apr-2003 Serco Group is to take over the contract to run Newquay Cornwall Airport from Sutton Harbour Holdings. 25-Feb-2003 Serco has acquired CCM Software Services, the Dublin-based developer of resource allocation systems, for an initial £8.6m. 05-Dec-2002 Serco is forming a joint venture with Netherlands Railways to bid for UK rail franchises, starting with Wales and Borders. 30-Jul-2002 Serco has acquired SDC, the healthcare management consultancy, for £2m, in order to increase the range of strategic advice and consultancy services provided to the NHS. 07-Jun-2002 Serco is planning to raise £120m in a share placing, in order to reduce debt in its facilities management business. 05-Mar-2002 Serco is to acquire AEA Technology's technical consulting division for about £75m. 02-Jul-2001 Serco has acquired Total IT, the IT and project management consultancy, for £1.2m. 28-Jun-2001 Serco has won a £25m-a-year contract to undertake railway infrastructure maintenance in the East Midlands for Railtrack. 06-Mar-2000 Serco has acquired Elekluft, the supplier of support services to German military customers, from Dasa for £18m. 11-Aug-1999 Nomura International is linking up with Serco to set up a £1bn infrastructure fund to bid for major public projects such as the London Underground and Air Traffic Control. 01-Feb-1999 Vardon has acquired the Club Athletico private health club in Worcester from Serco for £3.2m. 20-Aug-1998 Serco has bought Tecnodata, the Italian computer support services company, for about £9m. 10-Feb-1998 The Octagon Healthcare consortium has won a £214m contract to design, build and part-operate the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, with John Laing responsible for construction and Serco providing facilities management. 12-Jan-1998 Serco is buying Testech, the Dorset software concern. 17-Oct-1995
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