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  • ATO picks mainframe shortlist

    The Australian Taxation Office has selected a shortlist of suppliers who will bid for the last and largest of its three outsourcing contracts, a high-end computing deal believed to be worth a total of $800 million over five years.

  • ATO unleashes AU$160m a year outsourcing deal

    The Australian Tax Office has laid out the requirements for its centralised computing contract, worth AU$160 million per year.

  • HP and EDS wed: Australian rivals to get a piece of the cake?

    Observers predict that Hewlett-Packard's acquisition of global outsourcer EDS for US$13.9 billion this week will bring a boost to the Australian integrated services market, but also warn the new Australian entity that its rivals will try to take advantage of the transition here.

  • Govt CIOs: Vendors must play nice in multisourcing

    Australian Tax Office CIO Bill Gibson believes that with the days of one-vendor-fits-all type outsourcing now over, long-running rivals will be forced to enter marriages of convenience if they are to get a share of the government dollar.

  • Skills shortage could scuttle Tanner's grand plan

    Unwieldy IT procurement has led to widespread duplication, according to the new finance minister, Lindsay Tanner. However questions remain over whether greater centralisation will lead to actual savings on the AU$6 billion the government spends on IT each year.

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