EDS appears to have jumped the final hurdle, knocking Hewlett-Packard out of the race for one of the juiciest South Australian government outsourcing contracts, distributed computing support services.
South Australian government officials have initiated a vendor cooperation council and plan to introduce vendor scorecards as the state toughens its stance on newly-appointed suppliers.
EDS Australia has lauded big-bang outsourcing contracts and said a renegotiated deal with the South Australian government would be more flexible to accommodate the advent of new technologies
Initiatives designed to teach small local IT providers how to engage with the South Australian government have been described as nothing more than pre-election sweeteners.
EDS has released a report claiming the company's massive whole-of-government outsourcing deal with the South Australian government generated an AU$1 billion "side benefit" to the state over the last nine years.
If there's one jurisdiction that can claim to have learned from harsh experience in outsourcing, it's South Australia. Here's hoping others are paying close attention to how it applies those lessons.
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