Tag: Greg Farr

Of the 190 appointments to the APS 200 Group, announced on 11 June as part of the Federal Government’s response to the Moran Report, only four have specific Chief Information Officer (CIO) responsibilities. ...

As reported by Ben Woodhead in Australian IT, the Department of Defence has advised that it will release its long-awaited new IT strategy "by the middle of the year".

Work on the Defence IT strategy has continued following criticism of the agency's IT organisation contained in the April 2007 Defence Management Review...

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...

Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has been appointed as adviser to the Australian Tax Office (ATO) for its procurement to replace the long-standing IT Outsourcing Contact with EDS. The $708,400 contract for "ICT Sourcing Consultancy Services" was awarded to BCG after a selective tender process. It will run from 7 July 2007 to 30 June 2008, when the ATO's contractual arrangement with EDS is due to finish (unless the ATO exercises its rights to extend its arrangement with EDS)...