United Utilities PLC is a public limited company registered in England and Wales. Its multi-utility operations, comprising United Utilities Water PLC and United Utilities Electricity PLC, provide wastewater and water services and electricity distribution services, respectively, to a population of some seven million people in north west England. The group’s infrastructure management business, United Utilities Contract Solutions, applies the group’s infrastructure management expertise to competitive markets and is now the leading utility outsourcing business in the United Kingdom. Vertex is one of the United Kingdom’s largest providers of business process outsourcing, managing, and often transforming, the processes which support a client’s business.