A $91 million Laboratory Information System is on the list of high-value ICT projects slated to begin in the final quarter of 2015 and throughout 2016, the Queensland Government's most recent procurement schedule has revealed.
Agencies with major upcoming procurements include Queensland Health, the Department of Education and Training and the Public Safety Business Agency.
The highest-value project on the schedule is Queensland Health’s $91 million Laboratory Information System replacement, which is expected to begin in early-2016. The method of procurement has not been specified.
The system is the core system for the delivery of pathology, forensic and public health laboratory testing services. It stores more than four billion patient tests and results, and processes 52,000 pathology tests every day. It is now at the end-of-life, and a contemporary system is needed to fully integrate with the integrated electronic Medical Record (ieMR) and Queensland’s digital hospital initiative, according to the state’s 2015 eHealth Investment Strategy.
Other significant Health projects include its ICT infrastructure replacement, worth approximately $50 million over a number of individual procurements. A key priority for the department is the implementation of “new ICT infrastructure utility to provide contemporary network and data centre foundations that support contemporary systems and increase the mobility of the workforce”, according to the Investment Strategy. It is also looking to implement a department-wide contemporary and secure desktop environment, an information interoperability system and new enterprise systems.
Its $37.5 million Cardiac Information Solutions Program (CISP) ECG project to deliver a system capable of electronically transmitting and storing electrocardiogram results is expected to go to market under an open tender in 2015.
Queensland Health’s project to upgrade its Microsoft desktop products is expected to cost about $30 million, with procurement expected in late-2015.
“The current desktop environment, based on Microsoft’s Windows XP, is no longer supported and inhibits upgrades to existing clinical and system support applications,” the Strategy states.
It will also be undertaking a number of other system procurements and replacements, including the development and implementation of a $14 million Clinical Prioritisation Criteria knowledge base in early-2016, a replacement for its Sunrise Decision Support system, expected to cost nearly $12 million, in late 2015, and the procurement of a $10 million Source to Pay system in early-2016.
Queensland Health received funding of $144.5 million in the 2015-16 state budget for IT equipment and $34.4 million in unspecified ICT funding, according to Intermedium’s Budget IT tool.
Other agencies with upcoming multi-million dollar procurements include the Public Safety Business Agency, which provides business and corporate services to the state’s police, fire and emergency services. PSBA intends to procure body-worn video equipment or services worth about $5 million through an open tender process in late-2015, and begin procurement for its $3 million Camera Detected Offence Program in late-2015.
Additionally, the Department of Education and Training expects to procure a Library Information Management system for TAFE Queensland under a limited approach to market in mid-2016.
TAFE Queensland received funding of $5 million in the 2015-16 budget for “minor IT and systems development and replacement”.
The limited visibility of these initiatives in budget papers may partially be attributed to the minimal detail provided in state budget summaries. Some of the initiatives may also be internally funded within the agencies.
The procurement schedule also specifies that the projects outlined are indicative only and subject to change. Other procurement activities are also free to be initiated outside the projects identified, including existing Standing Offer Arrangements or ad hoc purchases.
A full list of projects with a value above $1 million that were included in the schedule is provided below.
Source: Forward Procurement Schedule - Queensland Government's ICT Mega Category
Department of Health
Value (M) |
Project Name |
Date of ATM |
Market Approach |
$91 |
Laboratory Information System replacement |
Jan-Mar 2016 |
TBC |
$50 |
Program of Works – ICT Infrastructure Replacement |
Oct – Dec 2015 |
Current arrangements in place |
$37 |
Cardiac Information Solutions Program (CISP) ECG Project |
July-Sept 2015 |
Open Tender |
$30 |
Microsoft Desktop Products |
Oct-Dec 2015 |
Current Arrangements in Place |
$16 |
Microsoft Software Assurance |
April-Jun 2018 |
Current arrangements in place |
$14 |
Clinical Prioritisation Criteria (CPC) Knowledge base |
Jan-Mar 2016 |
TBC |
$11.8 |
Replacement of the Sunrise Decision Support System (TII) |
Sept – Dec 2015 |
TBC |
$10 |
Source to Pay System – Upstream and downstream capabilities |
Jan-Mar 2016 |
Open Tender |
$7.5 |
Notifiable Conditions System Replacement |
July-Sept 2015 |
Open Tender |
$5 |
Digital Anatomical Pathology |
2017 |
Open Tender |
$3 |
Patient Administration Capability |
Oct-Dec 2015 |
Mixed |
$3.5
|
Billing and Accounts Receivable System |
Jan-March 2016 |
Open Tender/Existing Government resources
|
$3.1 |
Forensic Public Health (DAFF) System |
Oct-Dec 2015 |
Existing Government resources |
$3 |
Queensland Health Inpatient Processing System replacement |
Sept-Dec 2015 |
Specialist sourcing/Existing Government Resources |
$2 |
Enabling Infrastructure Program |
Oct-Dec 2015 |
Mixed |
$1.8 |
Oracle Database Management |
July-Sept 2015 |
Open Tender |
$1.58 |
Storage Array Network procurements |
Jul-Sept 2015 |
Current Arrangements in Place |
$1.2 |
Oracle Hardware Maintenance and Support |
Oct-Dec 2015 |
Open Tender |
$1.2
|
Perinatal Data System |
Apr-Sept 2016 |
TBC |
$1.02
|
Brocade Blades |
Jan-Mar 2016 |
Open Tender |
$1
|
TeleHealth Hardware Replacement |
Oct-Dec 2015 |
Current Arrangements in Place |
$1 |
Servers for Health related projects |
Jan-Mar 2016 |
Current Arrangements in Place |
Department of Education and Training
Value (M) |
Project Name |
Date |
Market Approach |
$8 |
Computers for Teachers Tranche 10 |
July-Sept 2015 |
Current Arrangements in Place |
$4 |
Library Information Management System for TAFE QLD |
Apr-June 2016 |
Closed Tenders |
$3 |
Support and Extension of Identity Broker and IAM Solution |
July-Sept 2015 |
Closed Tenders |
$2.5 |
RFID Solutions for Schools |
July-Sept 2015 |
Open Tender |
$1 |
Online Attendance Software for Schools |
Oct-Dec 2015 |
Open Tender |
Public Safety Business Agency
Value (M) |
Project Name |
Date |
Market Approach |
$24 |
Mobile Services Program |
NA |
Current Arrangements in Place |
$7.5 |
QFES ACMA 400MHz Compliance |
Oct-Dec 2015 |
Specialist Sourcing |
$5 |
Body Worn Video |
Oct-Dec 2015 |
Open Tender |
$3.75 |
ICT Foundation Program |
NA |
Current Arrangements in Place |
$3 |
Camera Detected Offence Program |
Oct-Dec 2015 |
TBC |
Department of State Development
Value (M) |
Project Name |
Date |
Market Approach |
$1.25 |
Enterprise Content Management System |
Sept-Oct 2015 |
Open Tender |
Department of Transport and Main Roads
Value (M) |
Project Name |
Date |
Market Approach |
$3 |
Registration and Licensing |
Oct-Dec 2015 |
TBC |
$2 |
ICT Services Panel |
Jan-Mar 2016 |
TBC |
$1 |
ICT Hosting Arrangement |
Jan-Mar 2016 |
TBC |
Department of Communities, Child Safety and Disability Services
Value (M) |
Project Name |
Date |
Market Approach |
$1 |
Mobile Application and Web Development |
Aug-Sep 2015 |
Multiple |