Beleaguered IT services company Commander has been awarded a contract worth $3.8 million by the Department of Finance and Deregulation to support the desktops of the Electorate Office, which Finance oversees
CSC Australia has won a AU$20 million deal with the Department of Defence as the system integrator for its Joint Command Support Environment.
The IT support functions of several large federal and state government agencies face an uncertain future in coming weeks as Commander Communications' receivers attempt to find buyers for the IT services company.
Telstra is celebrating a victory on two fronts after winning a $162 million contract with the Department of Defence while also denying its rivals a slice of the action, but the telco should consider itself lucky to be part of the natural ebb and flow between multi-sourcing and single-sourcing, according to one analyst.
The ATO has shortlisted four vendors for the first of its three major outsourcing deals -- managed network services, worth AU$55 million per year.
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After a year on the job, Sun's CEO says the company is relevant again but still has problems to fix. In this interview, he admits losing sight of the developer community towards the end of the 1990s, and making what he described as a very bad decision about the company's commitment to Solaris.
The Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday that it had awarded Accenture a contract worth up to US$10 billion for help in upgrading the nation's system for tracking visitors.
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Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) will postpone the award of contracts for the construction and development of its third generation (3G) mobile network.
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