The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) and the Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts (DEWHA) have both recently signed on new vendors to take over their formerly Commander-led managed services contracts.
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) and the Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts (DEWHA) have both recently signed on new vendors to take over their formerly Commander-led managed services contracts.
We aim to lead by example, to
be the first in the Australian Government to specify a green focus as part of its information technology services contract.
Environment Minister Peter Garrett
ACMA signed with Logica in a five-year $10 million deal for the
provision of LAN desktop services and support to the Authority's
540 staff in Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney as well as supporting
remote staff.
Of the original cross agency Group 8 contract with Commander
this was only one part, with the agency already having tendered out
telephony to Optus and Alphawest, WAN services to AAPT and video-conferencing to Dimension Data, according to Michael Searle, ACMA
project manager for the LAN Desktop outsourcing project.
"Logica was able to provide a team with proven ITIL skills and
an inherent understanding of both the job required and a vision of
where they could take our organisation's IT requirements. We
concluded Logica was the best value for money across a range of
selection criteria," Searle said in a statement.
DEWHA confirmed former speculation that it was going to sign its
IT services over to Datacom Systems which will have a "green focus",
according to Environment Minister Peter Garrett speaking today at
the Business Leaders Forum.
"You will be pleased to hear that a new era of sustainability is
happening with my own department, as we aim to lead by example, to
be the first in the Australian Government to specify a green focus
as part of its information technology services contract," he
said.
He said Datacom met environmental standards and that its
Sydney datacentre was looking at a reciprocal arrangement with a
nearby swimming pool where the centre's waste energy could heat
the pool water, which in turn could cool the building. "It's a
classic example of waste recovery," Garrett said.
However, a cross agency contract called Group 8 was set to be
wrapped up on 26 June and was out to tender when CSG acquired it,
which meant that it could not have a tilt at keeping them.