Five-year contracts were given to Electronic Data Systems Corp. (EDS), Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP), International Business Machines Corp. (IBM), France's Cap Gemini, the Compuware Covisint unit of Compuware Corp., and India's Wipro Ltd.

About half of the $15 billion in five-year contracts were awarded on Thursday, GM said.

The world's largest automaker said the initiative was driven by the end of a deal with EDS that expired in June, 10 years after EDS was spun off from the No. 1 automaker.read more