The Northern Territory government has awarded a three-year AU$7.5 million contract for mainframe application services to its incumbent supplier Fujitsu.
According to a senior territorial official, Fujitsu was the sole vendor to respond to a formal request for tender.
"Fujitsu were the previous incumbent, they were able to win the business again. In fact, they were the only provider to lodge a formal response," said Bob Creek, acting director of IT Service Management at the Northern Territory's Department of Corporate and Information services.
However, Creek maintained his department had received value for money from the new arrangements with Fujitsu.
"Because of course the procurement process is undertaken in complete confidentiality, while Fujitsu were the only respondent, at the time of lodgement, they would not have known this to be the case.
"And so we believe that we were able to maintain a very competitive environment in terms of the responses that we get. So we were pleased with the competitive nature of the eventual outcome," he told ZDNet Australia.
Fujitsu's win is the second major deal the vendor has recently signed with the NT government. In March 2006, Fujitsu nabbed a four-year, AU$150 million desktop and helpdesk services contract from arch-rival CSC Australia.
