Qantas employees have reportedly turned down jobs offered to them by IBM as the flying kangaroo attempts to move forward with its outsourcing plans.
The Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet has gone to tender for core ICT services and telephony management services contracts which together could be worth over $26 million.
Aussie IT services group ASG has thrown down the gauntlet publicly to its much larger international rivals as it posted steep jumps in revenue and profits for the past financial year.
ASG Group revealed today that it had signed a five-year $13 million contract with Qantas to provide application management services.
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.
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