In the lead-up to our Federal ICT Market Outlook briefing on 18 March, we take a look behind the Government's announcements about its ICT procurement intentions. There are signs that this is not a simple “slash and burn” exercise to cut spending: it’s far more strategic.
Reading the signals from the first 100 days
Federal ICT Market Outlook
What is the likely impact on tendering?
If there's a cut in ICT spending, how much will it be?
Who will be the winners and losers?
What will be the impact on the rules of tendering?
How will the move towards centralised procurement affect the market?
Breakfast Briefing
Canberra: 18 March 2008
More information
Issue No: 126 (10 March 2008)
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Top 5 Contracts
Child Support Agency tops the list this week with a $7.6m contract with Telstra Business Services. Medicare reported a contract with IBM GSA ($5.5m), ACC with Canberra Data Centres ($2.2m), Customs reported a 5.5 year contract with SITA that ends on 31 March ($1.8m) and ATO reported a contract with Booz Allen Hamilton ($1.65m).
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Federal Government Adopts More Strategic Approach to ICT
Federal Finance Minister, Lindsay Tanner is intent on cutting the Federal ICT budget as part of his quest to significantly reduce overall government spending. However there are indications that Tanner clearly understands the role of Federal Government purchasing as a key driver in the ICT market. This may moderate his approach. Read more |
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Significant Changes to Federal Agency Procurement Plans
It’s just over 6 months since the release of 2007-08 procurement plans by Federal Government agencies. Intermedium’s scout IT prospecting tool shows that the number of ICT items listed has increased by 13% since they were originally published in July 2007. There are now 445 ICT procurement plan items listed in scout IT, up from 394 at the start of the 2007-08 financial year. Read more |
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Schools Apply for First $100m Funding for PCs
Education Minister, Julia Gillard, announced last week that applications were open for schools to apply for the first round of funding, the first $100m of the billion dollars allocated under the Government’s Digital Education Revolution.
The program will provide computers to all students in years 9-12 over the next four years, with schools in greatest need allocated funds in the first round to June 2008. Following an audit of high schools around Australia, 937 were identified (approximately 300,000 students) that have a ratio of 1:8 (one computer for every eight children) or worse, for students in years 9 to 12. This audit counted only computers that were less than four years old. These schools have now been invited to apply for the first round of funding to increase the level of computers in their schools to a ratio of 1:2.
Subsequent rounds will provide funding to provide the equivalent of one computer for each child in years 9-12. The Minister said the Federal Government was working withState and Territory governments, and with the Catholic and Independent school sectors, to ensure that the infrastructure required, such as adequate power, would be met.
As mentioned in The Medium article last week, reports from a recent Senate Estimates Committee review of the project suggested approximately 700,000 laptop computers would be needed in order for the Government to deliver on its election promises. This would result in a doubling of demand for laptops in the Australian market. |
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Vacancy for Coporate Services Postion in NSW With IT Responsibility
NSW Attorney General's Department is advertising for a new Director Corporate Services "to play a pivotal role in the leadership team during a period of significant structural, cultural and technology driven change." Read more |
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Don't miss it .....................
Federal Government Master Class
Canberra, 27 March 2008
NSW Government Master Class
Sydney, 3 April 2008
Be more effective in your sales efforts in government ICT markets
Gain insight into the public sector and how it impacts procurement
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Tender Spot is a list of significant Federal and State ICT tenders currently open. Tender Spot should not be regarded as a substitute for your usual tender notification service/s eg TenderLink because it is only a weekly update.
Highlighted NEW tenders this week
APRA IT Development & Support Services Panel 25-03-08
Treasury Supply, installation and maintenance of a HR Electronic Recruitment (e_Recruitment) System 28-03-08
Defence Supply of Data Cartridges 10-04-08
VIC Infrastructure Expression of Interest for Supply and Support of a Performance Reporting System 03-04-08
Click the following 'read more' icon for the complete listing and full description of all tenders, including those due to close in the coming week.
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FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS PUBLISHED THIS WEEK Each week, Intermedium analyses all ICT contracts as reported by all federal government reporting agencies and as published in AusTender. This contracts data is built into a comprehensive series of reports. Each month, Intermedium updates the ICT procurement plans released by the federal government agencies in its scout IT spreadsheet analysis. More information. For a sample of scout IT click here.
Each week, the Medium Newsletter gives you access to all government reported contracts valued at more than $250,000 as published in AusTender for the previous week. Click to download file.
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