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• Government calls domain tender

  The federal government has released a tender for the provision of registration services for the gov.au domain.

• SA government to streamline tender process for SMEs

  The South Australian government is moving to streamline its procurement processes for information and communications technology (ICT) to reduce the high opportunity cost of bidding for government contracts, especially for small to medium enterprises (SME)s.

• NSW government sets Linux tender release date

  The closely-watched whole-of-government NSW Linux tender is now set for release on 29 September, state government officials said today.

• Panel tender to slash NSW government Linux procurement costs

  The 'panel' method being employed to help NSW government agencies source Linux solutions and support slashes agency procurement process costs by 12-25 percent, the government said today.

• Berzins' blunders: Police ignored tender rules

  Victoria Police's IT division under disgraced chief information officer Valda Berzins had a "disregard for proper procurement and contract management", a new report has revealed, which saw contracts fail to go to tender while their dollar values ballooned beyond approved amounts.

Blogs (28)

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  And the NBN winner is...

  Next week the government will announce the winning bidder for the build of the National Broadband Network. The announcement is expected when Kevin Rudd returns from the G20 in London.

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  How going public can be, well, public

  Do the boards of IT companies deliberate extra carefully before making a deal with government for fear of having their name pulled through the dirt when they stuff up?

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  Conroy's Six: Can FTTN's gatekeepers deliver?

  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.

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  ADSL2+ at last but at what cost?

  Much has been made of Telstra's decision to finally stop holding Australia to ransom, and to actually turn on the ADSL2+ equipment it has installed in what is apparently over 900 of its exchanges around the country.

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  Kev the Broadband Builder

  Is the NBN announcement a good thing? The industry at large seems to say yes. The Opposition is less sold on the idea, as you'll hear from Nick Minchin.

Features and Case Studies (63)

• Windows only for $140m government tender

  The Northern Territory government has released details of its four-year, $35 million per annum desktop sourcing tender.

• Next Telstra CEO must make peace

  Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo's successor will need to make conciliatory gestures towards the government and reconsider the company's strategy to remain relevant, analysts have concluded in the wake of this morning's announcement that Trujillo will depart the company on June 30.

• A chat with Fake Stephen Conroy

  ZDNet.com.au presents the man behind the Twitter account: Fake Stephen Conroy lays out his digital agenda. And kitten-fishing.

• Telstra's plan of attack

  Telstra will take every opportunity to both cast doubts on its rivals' capabilities and sow doubts in the minds of the legislators that might help to undermine the prospects of the displacement of its dominance of the fixed line space.

• Gershon: Easier said than done

  Gershon's recommendations are consistent with those of other jurisdictions that have undertaken similar reviews, and are aimed at giving the ICT centralisation/decentralisation pendulum a shove back towards the centre. This is, however, easier said than done.

Reviews (5)

• UPDATE: Qld government muscles carriers into better coverage

  The Queensland government has used its buying power to increase mobile coverage within the state, after it "got tired of waiting for the federal government to do something".

• Desktop dream machines

  RMIT Test Lab finally got its hands on some of the most powerful business PCs on the market. So it is with an eagerness bordering on unadulterated glee that Matt Tett puts these racehorses through their paces.

• Contact management packages reviewed

  We look at which product can help improve customer satisfaction.

• Intrusion detection: caught in its own web?

  Intrusion detection appears to have hit the bottom of its hype cycle with a particularly loud thud. Is there value beyond the hot air, and how can you make it work productively?

• Not as thick as some: 7 thin clients tested

  Thin clients seem to be a perennial runner-up to full-featured desktops, but we think the time is right to stop thinking "what if?" and to get rid of those clunky desktop PCs.

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