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Australia’s peak body for health and medical research, The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has awarded IT and business services group, Logica, a three year contract for the provision of ICT services, infrastructure and support.
Under the federal government outsourcing
contract, Logica will provide services and support for the NHMRC’s
staff located in Canberra and Melbourne who work at the National
Institute of Clinical Studies, as well as supporting the NHMRC’s
requirements for back office infrastructure services for remote staff.
The NHMRC has contracted Logica ahead of the expiry of the
organisation’s service level agreement with the Department of Health
and Ageing.
Susan Bone, director – IT services at the NHMRC, says the transition
project involves the establishment of new processes and the transfer to
Logica of existing services and support from the Department of Health
and Ageing’s incumbent service provider.
“Logica will implement new infrastructure, including a scalable and
secure gateway; data networks infrastructure and provide service desk
establishment, service management; security management, and desktop,
server, and network support.”
Bone says that, in addition to providing ICT Services, Logica will be
tasked with implementing ICT infrastructure to support the
organisation’s extensive grants management program, which supports
individual researchers and research teams to conduct the highest
quality research across all fields of health and medical research on
researcher initiated projects.
“We selected Logica based on value for money, proactive relationship
management, and strong methodology and technical expertise,” Bone said,
and the selection followed an intensive tender process conducted by the
NHMRC according to Commonwealth Procurement Guidelines.
According to Logica CEO Australia, Colin Holgate the strategy the
company had put in place to underpin its services “with strong service
management methodologies” was now “reaping benefits in the government
outsourcing market.”
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