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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...

Intermedium’s Agency Profiles offer an in depth look at the strategies and procurement practices of selected government bodies, with a focus on ICT. The knowledge they provide is essential for vendors looking to pursue contracts with the agency, or even for assisting internal Government research.

This particular profile looks into the structure and activities of NSW Health.

Employing over 100,000 people, and comprising 28% of the NSW General Government Sector budget, NSW Health is the largest Government Agency in NSW. If it were a publically listed company, it would rank around 15th in Australia in terms of size.

It is then no surprise that Health is a very significant ICT customer. It is taking part in the hefty e-health projects required by April’s COAG Agreement, and will soon undertake a review of its ICT strategy, which expires in 2011. This means it is high for ICT vendors to get informed about this agency, in order to gain an advantage in this competitive field.

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The Sydney Water Corporation is seeking a supplier for the provision of services for a new website...

The Q4 2009-10 Federal Government Hardware – Large Computing Systems (LCS) market decreased by $23.2 million or 45% on the same period in 2008-09. 56 suppliers signed a total of 166 contracts worth $28.8 million with 33 agencies. The top three suppliers accounted for 47% of the market in the quarter...