As expected, there were a range of cuts announced in the Federal budget that will impact Federal ICT spending.  There were also a number of announcements that will result in new spending, including extra spending in Defence and Centerlink. 

Some of the announcements in the 2008-08 budget that will clearly impact Federal ICT spending:

• 2% productivity dividend imposed on Federal agencies for 2008-09
• More than 3,000 public service positions to be cut
• $3.8 billion in cuts to programs and Government services
• Defence CIO Group allocated an additional $117 million over four years
• Extra $13.3 million next year for Centrelink's IT Refresh project
• $1.2 billion for computers-for-schools
• $4.7 billion for a new fibre-to-the-node network and to extend the national broadband guarantee
• $125.8 million over four years to establish the Cyber safety Plan

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.

The table below lists the five largest contracts reported for the week ending 15 May 2008:

Supplier Name	Contract Value	Agency	Contract Date
UNISYS AUSTRALIA	277,572,984	DEFENCE	14-03-2008
DELL FINANCIAL SERVICES	13,001,943	AFP	28-11-2002
HEWLETT PACKARD AUSTRALIA	7,6416,24	DEFENCE	22-01-2008
ACCENTURE AUSTRALIA	6,714,424	ATO	05-05-2008
IBM AUSTRALIA	5,500,000	MEDICARE	11-04-2008