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ATO’s desktop tender process rumoured on hold

by Staff Writers, Mon 23 February 2009

Vendor disquiet over the fate of the Australian Tax Office’s major desktop and service desk Approach to the Market have eased with the ATO quashing rumours that the exercise had been put on ‘indefinite hold.’...

ATO end-user tender finally goes to the market

by Staff Writers, Mon 30 March 2009

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is at last finalizing the process to meet its future End-User Computing requirements.

Last week, the ATO put an end to speculation the procurement was on hold, with the release of a tender for end-user computing service bundle (ATO statement, 25 March)...

Optus is ATO’s preferred supplier for MNS bundle

by Staff Writers, Mon 25 May 2009

The Australian Tax Office is in the final stages of contract negotiations for Optus to provide it with managed network services (MNS).

The MNS bundle includes the provision of data and voice carriage services, telephony services, wide area network and local area network services, video conferencing services, and call centre infrastructure and services.

The Tax Office currently spends approximately $60.5 million a year on these services, according to a statement it released today.

The contract is a major win for Optus whose contract wins with the ATO in the financial...

Signs of recovery in Federal market, but where will the opportunities arise?

by Staff Writers, Mon 3 August 2009

After a quiet last 18 months, there seem to be "green shoots" appearing in the Federal ICT market.

As mentioned in last week’s issue of the medium, Intermedium’s analysis of 2009-10 Federal agency procurement plans identified a 7% increase in the number of ICT projects compared with initial plans published for 2008-09.

At this stage in the electoral cycle, we’d expect the market to pick up as the “rubber hits to road” on a number of G...

Standard Business Reporting: full steam ahead

by Staff Writers, Mon 31 August 2009

The Federal Treasury has awarded a significant contract to follow through on its Standard Business Reporting (SBR) initiative, due for completion July 2010.

Treasury took out the $4m contract with Fujitsu to “supply and support Interstage XWand software, a custom technology development by Fujitsu Japan”.

In a joint statement with the Hon Lindsay Tanner, Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation Chris Bowen calls th...

ICT is now core to the delivery of government services

by Staff Writers, Mon 31 August 2009

Reflecting on 200 issues of the medium, Intermedium’s Head of Research Tim Conway concludes that government itself probably still doesn’t recognise how central ICT has become to the delivery of government services.

There’s the (now old) metaphor that internet years are like dog years, moving at seven to eight times that of an earth year. If that’s so, then the medium has spanned more than thirty such ‘years’...

Mainframes break free from Jurassic Park

by Staff Writers, Mon 28 September 2009

For many years, mainframes have been typecast as the dinosaurs of the IT industry. However, today’s reality is a very long way from earlier perceptions. Indeed, the mainframe market is again showing clear signs of growth.

In the Federal Government market, IBM is reporting 20% compound growth in mainframe usage. Some of this growth is showing up in government hardware contracts monitored by Intermedium. Other growth is appearing as part of various infrastructure outsourcing agreements...

ANAO delivers scathing report on ATO’s Change Program

by Staff Writers, Mon 2 November 2009

The Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) has handed down a scathing report on the Australian Taxation Office for the implementation of its Change program...

ATO: and then there were three…

by Staff Writers, Mon 23 November 2009

The Australian Taxation Office has short-listed three suppliers for its End-User Computing contract, which is due to be finalized by June 2010. CSC, Unisys and Lockheed Martin all remain in the running for the contract.

The contract was estimated to be worth around $60 million annually, according to the industry briefing provided by the ATO in April 2008...

Tax Office Change Program and the Henry Review

by Annabelle Milosavljevic, Tue 4 May 2010

In the 2008-09 Annual Report, Commissioner of Tax, Michael D’Ascenzo, signalled that the Australian Tax Office’s (ATO) Change Program should be close to over by the end of this year, however the current IT difficulties may require a revision to this estimate...


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