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Tax Office defends the ICT change program at Senate Estimates

Senior officials of the Australian Tax Office (ATO) faced a Senate Estimates hearing on 1 June at which they were grilled about delays and problems in the implementation of the ATO ICT Change Program, which was cut over on the Australia Day weekend in January 2010...

IT Services System Integration Services Q3 2009-10

The Q3 2009-10 Federal Government System Integration (SI) Services market fell $63.3 million or 48% on the same period in 2008-09. 75 suppliers signed a total of 169 contracts worth $69.9 million with 35 agencies, with the top three suppliers accounting for 50% of the market in the quarter.

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ATO’s ICT Sourcing Program Raises Ideas for Other Agencies

As Greg Farr stepped to the podium at last week’s vendor briefing, interest from vendors clearly went beyond the business at hand. Farr was recently confirmed as the next CIO at Defence and he will be charged with modernising Defence ICT, along the lines recommended in the Defence Review earlier this year. Some of his comments about the ATO approach to ICT purchasing may well have implications for other agencies...

Did you Guess the Top 5 Suppliers?

How successful would you have been at guessing the Top 5 Federal Government ICT suppliers for 2006-07? Intermedium invited attendees at the Canberra State of the Market 2007 briefing to list the Top 5 suppliers, in order, and the results are very interesting!

Of the 31 people that voted (hoping to win a fabulous bottle of wine), 19 put IBM at #1, and all picked IBM in the Top 5. It seems this was no great surprise.

5 people correctly picked Telstra at #2, but perhaps surprisingly, 11 did not have Telstra in the Top 5...

Biggest Contract Ever has One of the Shortest Procurement Timeframes Ever

The recent announcement of IBM as the successful tenderer for DIMA’s $495m Systems for People redevelopment is a major event. If press reportage is accurate, and it has been let as one contract to IBM, it is in fact the single biggest ICT contract ever awarded by a federal government agency, overshadowing the next closest, the ATO's $262m contract with Accenture by a long stretch. The Accenture contract is the only one above $200m, but contracts between $100m and $200m have been a little more commonplace over the last four years...

ATO Off-shoring - How Big A Deal Is It?

If you read Tuesday’s IT section of The Australian, you could be forgiven for thinking that the Australian Government is poised to send millions of dollars worth of programming work offshore and that this is just the “thin end of the wedge” for the local ICT industry in Australia...

Audit of major agencies identifies “significant” problems with $650m Defence logistics system

The Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) has released its interim financial audit of the 18 largest Commonwealth portfolios, identifying ICT system problems at...

Accenture continues winning streak with $40 million Defence contract

Accenture has made a vigorous start to the 2011-12 financial year, adding a $40 million contract with the Department of Defence (Defence) to its appointment...

ATO reveals IT Application Services Panel

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has revealed the list of suppliers on its IT Application Services Panel...

IT Services Panels – Defence shortlists industry partners, and ATO apps panel opens for business

The Department of Defence has narrowed its field of potential systems integration panellists down to a final shortlist and expects to be able to announce its selection...


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