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VIRTUALISATION Optus beats Telstra to lucrative $60m a year ATO deal
VIRTUALISATION Optus beats Telstra to lucrative $60m a year ATO deal | Optus beats Telstra to lucrative $60m a year ATO deal |
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| by Stan Beer | |
| Tuesday, 26 May 2009 | |
  
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The two finalists were Optus and Dimension Data. According to the ATO, Optus will be service provider for the first of the three ICT outsourced service bundles— managed network services (MNS). The MNS bundle includes the provision of data and voice carriage services, telephony services, wide area network and local area network services, video conferencing services, and call centre infrastructure and services. The Tax Office currently spends approximately $60.5 million a year on these services. Second Commissioner David Butler said the Tax Office’s objective is to achieve a value for money, business focused outcome from the arrangements for its managed network services. “We expect to complete our contract negotiations in the coming weeks and will provide more information on the contract after that point,” Mr Butler said. The two other bundles that will be available for ICT providers are either undergoing the tender process or the tender will soon be announced. End user computing – the request for tender closed on 11 May 2009. A contract is expected to be in place by March 2010. Centralised computing – the Tax Office expects to release the request for tender in July 2009 with a contract expected to be in place by mid-2010. |
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