Welfare agency Centrelink has flagged plans to overhaul the way it procures a raft of ICT services, consolidating two separate panel contracts into one overarching deal with between 10 and 15 vendors.
The NSW Government has gone back to market for suppliers to provide storage and virtualisation products and services under a panel arrangement.
Not all federal government agencies can apply for datacentre resources under the newly formed interim datacentre panel. In fact, only five have been cleared to do so, according to the Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO).
Ajilon and CSC have each signed two contracts with the Western Australian Police.
Queensland has decided to source its computers for the Federal Government's Digital Education Revolution via an existing panel instead of putting a new contract out to tender.
Post-election adrenaline surging through his veins, one of the first acts performed by new Communications Minister Stephen Conroy was to disband the expert panel that his predecessor Helen Coonan had appointed last June to evaluate tenders for fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) construction.
There's something to be said for the Japanese philosophy of Kaizen an idea of continually improving business via small changes something that unfortunately doesn't seem to glean many votes or impress punters.
The government dumped its well-intentioned bidders and spent the day awash in adulation from an industry that suddenly felt all its Christmases had come at once. But isn't this the same government that, two weeks ago, was warning it had to ditch key election promises for lack of funding?
Like the one ring of Sauron, the power of Telstra's copper loop twists the minds of its ever-scheming board, which hid in its Collins Street boardroom until it was wrenched from its grasp by the forces of deregulation and the undead armies of ACCC head Graeme Samuel.
Everything from cleaning to IT development work is outsourced by governments these days, but should security clearance processes, which dictate what access a person has to government information systems, be included in that bundle?
The NSW Department of Commerce is on the verge of finalising two whole-of-government technology panel contracts worth about $120 million, the NSW Office of Procurement confirmed today.
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Kevin Mitnick has proven that the weakest link in any security system is the person holding the information.
After waiting in line, spending US$600, signing a two-year AT&T contract and activating the iPhone, we decided that the next sensible action was to take the thing apart.
The HP Compaq dc7900 is a solid business offering in the premium desktop space, but the competition is a small step ahead.
The Dell M209X is a dependable projector that's inexpensive to maintain as long as you don't mind the dull colours.
Samsung's official phone of the Olympic games may not look especially sporty, but HSDPA, lag-free performance, and its great 5-megapixel camera help get the U900 out of the blocks and over the line.
Fonality's trixbox is an ISDN and traditional POTS-style telephony system based on the open source Asterisk software, and comes with dedicated hardware eliminating compatibility issues. We found trixbox to be competitively priced and easy to set up.
The i-mate Ultimate 9502 is the larger sibling of the i-mate 8502, and shares the honour of being Australia's first HSUPA phone. While we believe this phone is in the same league as a BlackBerry or the iPhone, be wary of Telstra's promised internet speeds.
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