The general manager of the ACCC's corporate branch, Helen Lu, said the move was made ahead of the triggering of an option clause in its contract with existing provider Telstra Enterprise Services. "In a nutshell we have a contract for the provision of IT services, and that contract is for five years. We are market testing for the continued provision of IT services. It's a fairly routine activity," she said.
"There's an option clause... we're asking as of the 1st of July 2004, what should we be doing?" she said.
The ACCC said on its Web site the objective of the expression of interest was to "seek submissions from suitably qualified organisations interested in providing a range of cost effective information technology services and facilities..".
The expression of interest (EOI) document itself outlines the services that are to be tendered for.
"The total requirement is for facilities management services to support the LAN, WAN, desktop, mid range and help desk services as well as for the provision of database Administration services," it says.
