diff --git a/insitu/management/commands/import_data_providers.py b/insitu/management/commands/import_data_providers.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6ee26fa1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/insitu/management/commands/import_data_providers.py
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model
+from django.core.management.base import BaseCommand
+from django.db import transaction
+from openpyxl import load_workbook
+import re
+import sys
+
+
+from insitu import models as insitu_models
+from picklists import models as pickmodels
+
+MODEL_FIELDS = ['name', 'provider_type', 'description', 'countries', 'networks',
+                'acronym', 'website', 'address', 'phone', 'email', 'contact_person']
+
+DATA_PROVIDER_FIELDS = ['name', 'description', 'countries', 'networks']
+
+DATA_PROVIDER_DETAILS_FIELDS = ['provider_type', 'website', 'address', 'phone',
+                                'email', 'contact_person']
+
+class Command(BaseCommand):
+    def add_arguments(self, parser):
+        parser.add_argument('filename', nargs='+', type=str)
+
+    def handle(self, *args, **options):
+        filename = options['filename'][0]
+        wb = load_workbook(filename=filename)
+        ws = wb.get_sheet_by_name('Ark1')
+        with transaction.atomic():
+            fields = MODEL_FIELDS
+            for row in ws.iter_rows(min_row=5):
+                has_network = False
+                data_provider_details = {}
+                data_provider = {}
+                networks = []
+                countries = []
+                for i in range(0, len(fields)-1):
+                    field = fields[i]
+                    value = row[i].value if row[i].value is not None else ''
+                    if field in DATA_PROVIDER_DETAILS_FIELDS:
+                        if field == 'provider_type':
+                            provider_type_model = pickmodels.ProviderType.objects.filter(
+                                name=value).first()
+                            data_provider_details[field] = provider_type_model
+                        else:
+                            data_provider_details[field] = value
+                    elif field in DATA_PROVIDER_FIELDS:
+                        if field == 'countries':
+                            country = pickmodels.Country.objects.filter(
+                                name=value).first()
+                            countries.append(country)
+                        elif field == 'networks':
+                            networks_name = re.split(', ', value)
+                            if networks_name != ['']:
+                                has_network = True
+                                for network_name in networks_name:
+                                    network = insitu_models.DataProvider.objects.filter(name__iexact=network_name).first()
+                                    networks.append(network)
+                        else:
+                            data_provider[field] = value
+                if has_network:
+                    user_id = get_user_model().objects.get(email='erik.buch@eurogoos.eu').id
+                    data_provider_obj = insitu_models.DataProvider.objects.create(created_by_id=user_id, **data_provider)
+                    data_provider_obj.countries = countries
+                    data_provider_obj.networks = networks
+                    insitu_models.DataProviderDetails.objects.create(data_provider_id=data_provider_obj.id, created_by_id=user_id, **data_provider_details)
+                else:
+                    print("\nWarning! Data provider", data_provider['name'],
+                          "hasn't been inserted because it doens't have any networks related")
+                sys.stdout.write('.')
+                sys.stdout.flush()
+        print()
diff --git a/insitu/migrations/0019_update_data_provider_name.py b/insitu/migrations/0019_update_data_provider_name.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a2669f67
--- /dev/null
+++ b/insitu/migrations/0019_update_data_provider_name.py
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+# Generated by Django 1.11.1 on 2018-03-12 10:35
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
+from django.db import migrations, models
+
+
+class Migration(migrations.Migration):
+
+    dependencies = [
+        ('insitu', '0018_remove_mandatory_data'),
+    ]
+
+    operations = [
+        migrations.AlterField(
+            model_name='dataprovider',
+            name='name',
+            field=models.CharField(max_length=255),
+        ),
+    ]
diff --git a/insitu/models.py b/insitu/models.py
index 8f227faa..4529de1b 100644
--- a/insitu/models.py
+++ b/insitu/models.py
@@ -363,7 +363,7 @@ class DataProvider(ValidationWorkflowModel, SoftDeleteModel):
     ]
     elastic_delete_signal = signals.data_provider_deleted
 
-    name = models.CharField(max_length=100)
+    name = models.CharField(max_length=255)
     description = models.TextField(blank=True)
     is_network = models.BooleanField(default=False)
     networks = models.ManyToManyField('self', blank=True,