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Jaguar Land Rover will turn to its fellow Tata Group unit INCAT for two information technology services, the companies said today.

INCAT will help Jaguar Land Rover move its IT applications from Ford Motor's systems to its own. INCAT also will provide support for those applications for five years. Terms of the contracts were not released.

Jaguar Land Rover, which was purchased from Ford Motor by Tata Group in June, said INCAT didn't get any help in the bidding because of its affiliation.

"Recognizing that INCAT is also owned by Tata, we have been particularly sensitive to the need to treat them as we would any other vendor," said Alan Weeks, the IT transition manager for Jaguar Land Rover, in a statement. "No advantageous insight has been available to the INCAT team, who worked with us in a very professional manner throughout the research phase."

INCAT has headquarters in suburban Detroit; Luton, England; and Pune, India. Most of the work will take place in Jaguar Land Rover's British facilities and in India.