Exhibit 10
    (iii) 48.





THE IT GROUP,
   INC.


BONUS
   AGREEMENT





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This Bonus Agreement (this Agreement
   ) is made and entered into effective as of by and between The IT
   Group, Inc. (the Company) and (the Key Individual). Capitalized terms
   used but not otherwise defined in this Agreement that are defined in the
   Plan (as defined below) shall have the meanings specified in the
   Plan.





WITNESSETH:





WHEREAS, the Key Individual is currently
   employed by the Company in the capacity of ;





WHEREAS, the Company has adopted the IT Group,
   Inc. Executive Bonus Plan (the Plan), effective as of , which provides certain
   additional incentives to certain key executives of the Company or its
   affiliates;





WHEREAS, the Key Individual has been selected
   by the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors (the
   Compensation Committee or the Committee) to be
   eligible to participate in the Plan; and





WHEREAS, the Key Individual desires to become
   a participant of the Plan.





NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual
   covenants contained herein, the Company and Key Individual agree as
   follows:





1.    TERM OF
   AGREEMENT.    This Agreement shall continue in
   effect until the earlier occurrence of the following events: (i) the Key
   Individuals failure to satisfy any eligibility requirement of the Plan
   due to a decrease in the hours of service performed by Key Individual or as
   a result of any other circumstance; (ii) the Key Individuals
   termination of employment with the Company or its affiliate whether
   voluntarily or involuntarily; or (iii) the termination of the Plan by the
   Board of Directors.





2.    CONTINUED SERVICE
   BONUS





(a)    Subject to the
   terms of the Plan and the continued existence of the Plan, if Key Individual
   is a Full-Time Employee of the Company in good standing for each anniversary
   of November 17, 1998 (the Bonus Date) during the term of the
   Plan, Key Individual shall receive a Continued Service Bonus in an amount as
   set forth in Exhibit A.





(b)    Notwithstanding the
   foregoing, the occurrence of the following events will affect Key Individual
   s eligibility for a Continued Service Bonus as follows:





THE IT GROUP,
   INC.


BONUS
   AGREEMENT





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| | (i)    Termination
     of Employment for Cause; Voluntary Termination.Key Individual shall not be eligible for any Continued Service
     Bonus under this Agreement following a separation from service if such
     separation was due to termination by the Company or an affiliate for Cause
     or a voluntary termination by Key Individual.
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| | (ii)   
      Termination Without Cause.Subject to Section 2(b)(v), below, in the event that Key
     Individuals employment with the Company or an affiliate is
     terminated by either without Cause during the consecutive twelve-month
     period prior to an anniversary of the Bonus Date, the Termination Date for
     purposes of determining Key Individuals eligibility for a Continued
     Service Bonus shall be deemed to have occurred six (6) months following
     Key Individuals actual Termination Date.
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| | (iii)   
      Retirement of Key Individual.In the event Key Individuals employment terminates on or
     after [his/her] Retirement Date during the consecutive twelve-month period
     prior to an anniversary of the Bonus Date, Key Individual shall be
     immediately eligible to receive any Continued Service Bonus for any
     outstanding anniversary or anniversaries of the Bonus Date as if [he/she]
     had remained a Full-Time Employee through the last anniversary date on
     which a Continued Service Bonus is to be awarded.
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| | (iv)    Death or
     Disability of Key Individual.In the
     event Key Individual dies or becomes Permanently Disabled while employed
     by the Company or an affiliate during the consecutive twelve-month period
     prior to an anniversary of the Bonus Date, Key Individual shall be
     immediately eligible to receive any Continued Service Bonus for any
     outstanding anniversary or anniversaries of the Bonus Date as if [he/she]
     had remained a Full-Time Employee through the last anniversary date on
     which a Continued Service Bonus is to be awarded.
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3.    PERFORMANCE
   BONUS.





(a)    During the term of
   the Plan, if Key Individual is an employee of the Company or its affiliate,
   Key Individual shall receive a Performance Bonus upon the occurrence of
   certain events (singularly, a Performance Bonus Event) as
   described in Exhibit A and in an amount as set forth in Exhibit
   A.





(b)    Notwithstanding the
   foregoing, the occurrence of the following events will affect Key Individual
   s eligibility for a Performance Bonus:





| | (i)    Termination
     of Employment for Cause; Voluntary Termination.Key Individual shall not be eligible for any further Performance
     Bonus under this Plan if Key Individuals separation from service was
     due to termination for Cause or voluntary termination.
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THE IT GROUP,
   INC.


BONUS
   AGREEMENT





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| | (ii)   
      Termination Without Cause.In the event that Key Individuals employment with the
     Company or an affiliate is terminated without Cause, the Termination Date
     for the purposes of determining Key Individuals eligibility for a
     Performance Bonus shall be deemed to have occurred six (6) months
     following the Participants actual Termination Date.
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| | (iii)   
      Retirement of Key Individual.In the event Key Individuals employment terminates on or
     after his or her Retirement Date, the Termination Date for the purposes of
     determining Key Individuals eligibility for a Performance Bonus
     shall be deemed to have occurred twelve (12) months following Key
     Individuals actual Termination Date.
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| | (iv)    Death or
     Disability of Key Individual.    In the
     event Key Individual dies or becomes Permanently Disabled, the Termination
     Date for the purposes of determining Key Individuals eligibility for
     a Performance Bonus shall be deemed to have occurred twelve (12) months
     following Key Individuals actual Termination Date.
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4.    CHANGE OF CONTROL
   BONUS.    In the event an involuntary termination of
   employment, other than for Cause, occurs within 18 months following a Change
   of Control and during the term of this Plan, Key Individual shall receive a
   Change of Control Bonus as set forth in Exhibit A, less any Continued
   Service Bonuses and Performance Bonuses actually received or to be received
   by Key Individual prior to or as of the Termination Date.





5.    GROSS-UP
   PAYMENT.    If Key Individual receives a Continued
   Service Bonus, a Performance Bonus or a Change of Control Bonus (a
   Bonus Payment), Key Individual shall also receive a gross-up
   payment to offset any federal, state, and local income tax and FICA tax
   liability. The gross-up payment shall be equal to a Bonus Payment multiplied
   by a fraction, x/(1-x), where x equals the highest marginal combined
   effective federal, state, and local income tax rates imposed on a Bonus
   Payment, and reduced by any tax benefit associated with any interest expense
   deduction claimed by Key Individual in the year of the receipt of such Bonus
   Payment.





6.    EMPLOYMENT NOT
   GUARANTEED.    This Agreement shall not be deemed to
   constitute an employment contract between the Company or any affiliate and
   Key Individual, nor shall the existence of this Agreement or any provision
   contained in this Agreement be deemed to be a required condition of the
   employment of Key Individual. Nothing contained in this Agreement shall be
   deemed to give Key Individual the right to continued employment with the
   Company or any affiliate, and the Company or an affiliate may terminate Key
   Individual at any time, in which case the Key Individuals rights
   arising under this Agreement shall be only those expressly provided under
   the terms of this Agreement.


THE IT GROUP,
   INC.


BONUS
   AGREEMENT





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7.    GOVERNING LAW.
       This Agreement shall be governed by and construed
   and enforced in accordance and with the laws of the State of Delaware,
   without regard to the application of the conflicts of law provisions
   thereof.





8.    NOTICES. 
      All notices and other communications required or permitted
   to be given under the Plan shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have
   been duly given if delivered personally or by inter-office mail as follows:
   (i) if to the Company, The IT Group, Inc., 2790 Mosside Boulevard,
   Monroeville, PA 15146-2792; (ii) if to Key Individual, to the address set
   forth below Key Individuals signature hereto, or at such other address
   as Key Individual may hereinafter designate in writing to the Company. Any
   such notice shall be deemed duly given when sent by prepaid certified or
   registered mail and deposited in a post office or branch post office
   regularly maintained by the United States Government.





9.    INCORPORATION OF
   EXHIBITS AND PLAN.    All exhibits referred to in
   this Agreement and the terms and provisions of the Plan are incorporated by
   reference and made a part of the terms, provisions and covenants of this
   Agreement.





10.    AMENDMENT.
       This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement of
   the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes all
   prior agreements, oral and written, between the parties hereto with respect
   to the subject matter hereof. This Agreement may be modified or amended only
   by an instrument in writing signed by both parties hereto.





11.    PROHIBITION
   AGAINST ASSIGNMENT.    Except as otherwise expressly
   provided in this Agreement, the rights, interests and benefits of Key
   Individual under this Agreement (a) may not be sold, assigned, transferred,
   pledged, hypothecated, gifted, bequeathed or otherwise disposed of to any
   other party by Key Individual or any beneficiary, executor, administrator,
   heir, distributee or other person claiming under Key Individual, and (b)
   shall not be subject to execution, attachment or similar process. Any
   attempted sale, assignment, transfer, pledge, hypothecation, gift, bequest
   or other disposition of such rights, interests or benefits contrary to the
   foregoing provisions of this Section shall be null and void and without
   effect.





12.    NO TRANSFER OF
   INTEREST.    No provision of this Agreement shall be
   interpreted or construed (a) as transferring to Key Individual or any other
   person or entity any direct or indirect ownership or other proprietary
   interest whatsoever in the Company or any affiliate or its stock or
   securities, or (b) as creating any partnership, joint venture or other joint
   business enterprise between any such person and the Company or any
   affiliate. The Company and each affiliate shall have and possess all title
   to, and beneficial interest in, any and all funds or other property received
   by the Company or any affiliate in connection with the sale or other
   disposition of all or any portion of the Companys or any affiliate
   s assets and/or any funds or reserves maintained or held by the
   Company or any affiliate on account of any obligation to pay the Bonus
   Payments as required under this Agreement, whether or not earmarked by the
   Company or any affiliate as a fund or reserve for such purpose; any such
   funds, other property or


THE IT GROUP,
   INC.


BONUS
   AGREEMENT





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reserves shall be
   subject to the claims of the creditors of the Company or any affiliate, and
   the provisions of this Agreement are not intended to create, and shall not
   be interpreted as vesting, in Key Individual, beneficiary or other person,
   any right to or beneficial interest in any such funds, other properly or
   reserves.





13.    SEVERABILITY.
       In the event that any provision of this Agreement is
   found to be invalid or otherwise unenforceable by a court or other tribunal
   of competent jurisdiction, such invalidity or unenforceability shall not be
   construed as rendering any other provision contained herein invalid or
   unenforceable, and all such other provisions shall be given full force and
   effect to the same extent as though the invalid and unenforceable provision
   was not contained herein.





14.    VIOLATION OF ANY
   COVENANT OR LAW.    Notwithstanding any other
   provision of this Agreement, the Company or any affiliate shall not be
   required to make a Bonus Payment to Key Individual if making such Bonus
   Payment would cause the Company or an affiliate to violate any covenant or
   other similar provision in any indenture, loan agreement, or other
   agreement, or cause the Company or an affiliate to violate any applicable
   federal, state or local law.





15.    PAYMENTS TO
   INCAPACITATED KEY INDIVIDUAL.    In the event Key
   Individual is under mental or physical incapacity at the time of any payment
   to be made to Key Individual pursuant to this Agreement, any such payment
   may be made to the conservator or other legally appointed personal
   representative having authority over and responsibility for the person or
   estate of Key Individual, as the case may be, and for purposes of such
   payment references in this Agreement to Key Individual shall mean and refer
   to such conservator or other personal representative, whichever is
   applicable. In the absence of any lawfully appointed conservator or other
   personal representative of the person or estate of Key Individual, any such
   payment may be made to any person or institution that has apparent
   responsibility for the person and/or estate of Key Individual as determined
   by the Board of Directors. Any payment made in accordance with the
   provisions of this Section to a person or institution other than Key
   Individual shall be deemed for all purposes of this Agreement as the
   equivalent of a payment to Key Individual, and the Company and its
   affiliates shall have no further obligation or responsibility with respect
   to such payment.





16.    DESIGNATION OF
   BENEFICIARY.    Key Individual shall be entitled to
   designate one or more persons or entities, in any combination, as his
   Beneficiary to receive any payments to which Key Individual is
   entitled to under this Agreement in the event of Key Individuals death
   during the term of this Agreement. Any such designation shall be made in a
   written instrument filed with the Board of Directors. In the event that
   either (a) a Beneficiary designation is not on file at the date of Key
   Individuals death, (b) no Beneficiary survives Key Individual, or (c)
   the Beneficiary designated by Key Individual is not living at the time any
   payment becomes payable under this Agreement, then, for purposes of making
   any further payment of any unpaid amounts provided under this Agreement, Key
   Individuals Beneficiary
 THE IT GROUP, INC.


BONUS
   AGREEMENT





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shall be deemed to be
   the person or persons surviving him in the first of the following classes in
   which there is a survivor, share and share alike:





| | (i)    Key Individual
     s surviving spouse.
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| | (ii)    Key Individual
     s children, except that if any of the children predecease Key
     Individual but leave issue surviving, then such issue shall take by right
     of representation the share their parent would have taken if
     living.
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| | (iii)    Key Individual
     s estate.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed
   this Bonus Agreement on the day and year first above written.





| | THE IT GROUP,
     INC.
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| | By:
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| | Title: Senior
     Vice President, Human Resources
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| | KEY
     INDIVIDUAL
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THE IT GROUP,
   INC.


BONUS
   AGREEMENT





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EXHIBIT
   A





Continued Service
   Bonus Payments:





|Anniversaries of
     Bonus Date                                                                                                                                     |  | Continued
     Service Bonus Amount
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|1st
     Anniversary                                                                                                                                                 |  |                                    
|2nd
     Anniversary                                                                                                                                                 |  |                                    
|3rd
     Anniversary                                                                                                                                                 |  |                                    
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|Performance
     Bonus Payments:                                                                                                                                    
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|Performance
     Bonus Event                                                                                                                                         |  | Performance
     Bonus Amount      
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|Common Stock price
     averages                                                                                                                                     |  |                                    
|$ for 90 calendar days at any time
   
   within the three year period following the
   
   effective date of this Agreement                                         |  |                                    
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|Common Stock price
     averages $
   
   for 90 calendar days at any time within the
   
   three year period following the effective
   
   date of this Agreement |  |                                    
|                                                                                                                                                                    
|Common Stock price
     averages $
   
   for 90 calendar days at any time within the
   
   three year period following the effective
   
   date of this Agreement |  |                                    
|                                                                                                                                                                    
|Change of
     Control Bonus:                                                                                                                                        |  |                                    
|                                                                                                                                                                    
|Payment of
     Interest:                                                                                                                                            |  |                                    
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|Change of Control
     and Performance
   
   Bonus payments will accrue
   
   Interest at a rate of % per annum                                                    |  |