Trusted Borders signs contract with UK Home Office

14 November 2007

Serco Group plc (Serco) is pleased to note the following announcement that the
Trusted Borders consortium, of which Serco is a key member, has signed a
contract with the Home Office for the e-Borders project.

   Trusted Borders signs contract with UK Home Office for e-Borders project    

Trusted Borders, a consortium of companies led by Raytheon Systems Limited of
the UK, has signed a contract with the Home Office to develop and implement the
nation's `e-Borders' project, an advanced border control and security
programme.

Members of the Trusted Borders consortium have already begun work on the
e-Borders programme, building upon the country's current pilot programme for
border control and expanding it into a fully flexible, scalable and robust
e-Borders capability within two years. Ninety-five percent of the work will be
carried out in the UK.

Christopher Hyman, chief executive of Serco, said: "e-Borders is a vital
programme for the Home Office and we are delighted that Trusted Borders has
been chosen to deliver it. Serco's role reflects the depth of our home affairs
expertise and IT capabilities. We look forward to working with our partners to
help the Home Office achieve its goals."

Under the e-Borders programme, Serco is responsible for infrastructure and
service management. Serco is a leading international service company which
specialises in providing operational, management and consulting expertise to
the UK and other governments. Serco already provides the Mycroft intelligence
management system to the UK Borders and Immigration Agency.

The prime contractor for the Trusted Borders consortium is Raytheon, which will
be responsible for systems integration, travel services and overall project
management, drawing upon its extensive development and production base in the
UK as well as the company's worldwide technology resources. Other supporting
members of the consortium are leaders in their respective fields who bring a
strong record of performance and delivery to the e-Borders programme. The other
members of the Trusted Borders team and their respective areas of
responsibility in the programme are as follows:

Accenture is responsible for training end users of the system and helping to
measure the overall business benefits of the e-Borders programme. Accenture is
a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company
with proven experience working with border and identity management agencies
around the world.

Detica is responsible for intelligence and analytics services. Detica is the
UK's leading information intelligence specialist, working extensively in this
area for commercial, law enforcement and national security clients. In one of
its most recent assignments Detica carried out complex analysis of cross-border
freight movements for HM Revenue & Customs.

QinetiQ is responsible for security accreditation and human factors. QinetiQ,
the international defence and security technology company, is a specialist in
designing customer-facing processes and secure systems that comply with UK
Government requirements. For example, it has developed and runs Borderwatch,
which detects stowaways in vehicles, for the Department for Transport.

Capgemini is responsible for the development of business architecture including
the design of business processes, organisation structure and primary data
flows. Capgemini is a leading global consulting firm and a specialist in UK
Government Business Architecture design and implementation.

Steria is responsible for the development of the Agency interfaces. Steria is a
major European IT services provider with extensive experience of European
border management systems, through programmes such as the Schengen Information
System (SISII) and Visa Information System (VIS).

Notes to Editors:

About e-Borders

The e-Borders Programme is a multi-agency, technology-enabled business change
programme which will create a joined-up, modernised border control and security
framework for the United Kingdom.

e-Borders will collect and analyse passenger and crew data, provided by
carriers (air, sea and rail), in respect of all journeys to and from the UK in
advance of their travel. This will support an intelligence-led approach to
operating border controls, by identifying those involved in abuse of UK
immigration laws, serious and organised crime and terrorism.

Border control agencies include Immigration service, Police service, Serious
and Organised Crime Agency, Customs and UKvisas.

The e-Borders programme will cover all carriers operating to and from the UK. 
It builds upon the successes of Project Semaphore, the de-risking pilot for the
e-Borders programme which currently captures passenger information from a
limited number of carriers on routes that have been identified as high risk.

By harnessing passenger information, performing risk assessments on passengers
planning to enter or leave the UK and utilising new developments in technology
which allow the swift and secure transfer of data, e-Borders will, in effect,
export the border and provide more effective levels of border control and
deliver faster processing and greater flexibility in control operations.

For further information on Serco, please contact

Richard Hollins, Head of Investor Relations

Dominic Cheetham, Director of Corporate Communications

Tel: [phone]

For further information on Trusted Borders, please contact the Trusted Border's
press office

James Drewer

Tel: [phone]

Mob: [phone]

Estelle McCartney

Tel: [phone]

Mob: + 44 (0) 7770 830 054

Email: [e-mail]

Website: http://www.trustedborders.com

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