Tata Consultancy Services Awarded Verizon’s Supplier Excellence Award

TCS Receives Supplier Excellence Award for Performance Excellence for the fourth time

Mumbai, June 1, 2009: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) (BSE: TCS.BO, NSE: TCS.NS), a leading IT services, business solutions and outsourcing firm, today announced that it has been selected as a winner of Verizon’s 2008 Supplier Excellence Award (SEA) in the IT Services category.

The award recognizes companies that support Verizon’s commitment to continuous improvement of quality and service to its customers through a passion for excellence. Criteria for winning includes: quality of service, year over year growth, a commitment to supplier diversity, meeting and exceeding performance metrics, providing cost management solutions and excellent customer service. Verizon recognized just 10 companies in 11 categories. The winners were recognized at the 7th Annual Award ceremony held on April 1, 2009 at in Basking Ridge, New Jersey.

“It is a great honor to receive this award on behalf of TCS,” said Ravi Viswanathan, Head of the Telecom Services Business Unit, Tata Consultancy Services. “The current economic environment demands constant need to innovate and drive forth excellence in delivery and to have a value-based ecosystem. I thank Verizon for this initiative in rewarding partners as we jointly strive to drive excellence in the highly competitive ICT industry,”

“Verizon is focused on delivering the best customer experience so we expect the highest quality service from our vendors, which keeps us focused on the business of serving our customers,” said George Dowell, vice president of Supply Chain Services, Verizon Services Operations. “TCS is among 10 vendors that have received a 2008 Verizon Supplier Excellence Award for delivering advanced products and services and for consistently demonstrating a commitment to excellence.”

About Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)

Tata Consultancy Services is an IT services, business solutions and outsourcing organization that delivers real results to global businesses, ensuring a level of certainty no other firm can match. TCS offers a consulting-led, integrated portfolio of IT and IT-enabled services delivered through its unique Global Network Delivery Model, recognized as the benchmark of excellence in software development. A part of the Tata Group, India’s largest industrial conglomerate, TCS has over 148,000 of the world's best trained IT consultants in 47 countries. The company generated consolidated revenues of US $6 billion for fiscal year ended 31 March 2009 and is listed on the National Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock Exchange in India. For more information, visit us at www.tcs.com.

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