NT govt's $130m ICT tender pot
The Northern Territory Government has slowly been awarding whole-of-government tenders worth around $130 million to companies such as Dell, Optus and NEC.
The NT Government put out a tender in July last year, and just about every major technology company was interested. IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Fujitsu, Oracle, Dell, Cisco, Avaya, Telstra, Optus and even Apple had originally downloaded the tender documents from the NT Government's tender site.
Following inquiries on the status of this tender from ZDNet Australia, the government provided the following table detailing how the tender has been divided and awarded since submissions closed in September 2009.
| Tender: | Awarded to: | Amount: | Period: |
|---|---|---|---|
| Central service centre | Kinetic IT Pty Ltd | $24,305,216 | 36 months |
| Network management | CSG Services Pty Ltd | $10,662,067 | 36 months |
| Desktop and server management | CSG Services Pty Ltd | $49,119,549 | 36 months |
| Fixed voice network management | NEC Australia Pty Ltd | $12,000,000 | 36 months |
| Mobile phone carriage | Optus Networks Pty Ltd¹ | $2,610,879 | 36 months |
| Satellite phone carriage | Optus Networks Pty Ltd | $621,575 | 36 months |
| Pivotel Satellite Pty Ltd | $621,294 | 36 months | |
| Data network carriage | Amcom Pty Ltd¹ | $16,409,250 | 60 months |
| Hardware supply — desktops | Dell Australia Pty Ltd | $5,144,013 | 12 months |
| Hardware supply — laptops | Dell Australia Pty Ltd | $3,078,664 | 12 months |
| Hardware supply — printers | CSG Services Pty Ltd | $1,082,275 | 12 months |
| Hardware supply — servers | CSG Services Pty Ltd | $1,015,560 | 12 months |
| Dell Australia Pty Ltd | $1,064,700 | 12 months | |
| Fujitsu Australia Ltd | $982,800 | 12 months | |
| Hardware supply — network equipment | CSG Services Pty Ltd | $977,130 | 12 months |
¹Negotiations are underway with other vendors for part of this tender.
Negotiations were still taking place for fixed voice carriage and internet carriage tenders.
(Front page image credit: Data Center image by Sean Ellis, CC2.0)