Australian-listed human resource and business process outsourcing company, Talent2 International, has beaten off rivals in a competitive tender to be selected by the Queensland Government as its ICT contractor resource manager.

The Victorian Government has expanded its eServices panel in a move designed to provide more opportunities for local ICT companies and greater competition in the provision of ICT services to government.

Northern Territory IT services specialists, Territory Technology Solutions (TTS), has won a three-year tender to provide communications, IT infrastructure, services and support to Outback Stores, a 27-site government-owned enterprise that manages stores on behalf of Australian Indigenous communities.

The Victorian Government's plan to adjust its ICT services sourcing rules has been welcomed by the peak industry organisation.

Remember Steven Bradbury - the ice skater who won gold when he was the last man standing? Well there's a sense of the Steven Bradburys about the race to supply the NSW Government with its data centres as a key bid member in the Leighton camp has now pulled the plug.

Pacific Fibre - the New Zealand company planning to build a submarine fibre cable linking Australia, New Zealand and the US west coast - has issued a request for tenders for the system but without its erstwhile partner Pacnet, which was to have owned one fibre pair on the planned two pair system.

The WA Government has called for tenders for the provision of mobile voice and broadband data services in presently underserved areas of the state.

Seeking to replace its existing SGI Altix supercomputer with a new model powered by 64-bit Intel processors, Australia's science organisation has gone to tender to double its supercomputing power.

Australia's largest direct wine retailer, Cellarmasters, is to deploy the Interactive Intelligence, all-in-one IP communications software suite, Customer Interaction Center (CIC), at its new contact centre in the inner-Sydney suburb of Surry Hills.

EMC, Hewlett-Packard, Dimension Data and Communications Design Management have picked up major contracts to aid the Queensland Government in consolidating its technology infrastructure under its state-owned ICT services provider CITEC.

ERP services company, Extend Technologies, has formally been accepted on the NSW Government ERP Services Panel signalling a new era in the provision of ERP services to NSW government agencies, with the state government late last year shutting down its old contract system.

iSOFT today said it had completed the rollout of new patient management systems in mid-June to Victorian hospitals under Victoria's delayed HealthSMART project begun back in 2003, as financial problems continue to plague the Australian e-health giant.

The organisation behind Australia's flagship annual Linux conference has requested formal proposals from parties interested in hosting the event in their city in 2012.

NBN Co has released a shortlist of 21 Australian companies, including Telstra, that will be asked to tender for contracts to design and roll out some 200,000kms of cable for its fibre access network.

The Federal Government will today release a whole of government request for tender for mobile phone hardware and services, continuing a string of purchasing initiatives aimed at driving efficiencies across Canberra's entire public sector.

Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has been accused of misleading the Senate over the progress of the original National Broadband Network RFP, a process that cost $30 million and was ultimately cancelled, having failed to deliver a value-for money provider.

NBN Co has revealed details of its planned acquisition timetable for the key FTTH components of the National Broadband Network, saying it will give organisation invited to tender just one month to respond.

The first stage of the National Broadband Network (NBN) deployment is about to begin in earnest with the release of a tender for the supply of fibre optic cable.

Although the Federal government previously suggested that the National Broadband Network (NBN) rollout would begin in Tasmania, the first round tenders are all for mainland facilities.

It really makes no difference whether a Howard Coalition or a Rudd Labor Government is in power, Telstra obviously considers itself answerable to no-one. What other conclusion can be drawn from the monolithic telco's action of answering the Government's RFP to build the National Broadband Network with a non-compliant 12-page document?