UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM 8-K

 

 

CURRENT REPORT
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): August 23, 2012 (August 17, 2012)

 

THE SERVICEMASTER COMPANY

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Delaware

 

1-14762

 

36-3858106

(State or other Jurisdiction

 

(Commission File Number)

 

(I.R.S Employer

of Incorporation)

 

 

 

Identification Number)

 

860 Ridge Lake Boulevard, Memphis, Tennessee

 

38120

(Address of principal executive offices)

 

(Zip Code)

 

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (901) 597-1400

 

Not Applicable

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report.)

 

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Item 1.01.  Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

 

On August 17, 2012, ServiceMaster Consumer Services Limited Partnership (“ServiceMaster”), a subsidiary of The ServiceMaster Company (the “Company”), and International Business Machines Corporation (“IBM”) entered into an amendment (the “Amendment”) to the First Amended and Restated Master Services Agreement and the related First Amended and Restated Transaction Document No. 1, both dated November 1, 2010 (collectively, the “Agreement”), modifying the terms pursuant to which IBM provides information technology infrastructure services to the Company and its subsidiaries.  As previously reported, the Company expects to phase-out through 2013 a significant portion of the services provided to the Company by IBM under the Agreement.  The Amendment deletes the service levels associated with the information technology infrastructure services that have been eliminated through August 1, 2012 and amends provisions of the Agreement relating to the service levels for the remaining application maintenance services.

 

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SIGNATURE

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

Date: August 23, 2012

THE SERVICEMASTER COMPANY

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Roger A. Cregg

 

 

Roger A. Cregg

 

 

Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

 

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