Logica scores another juicy contract win

By Peter Dinham
Wednesday, 03 June 2009 15:11

IT Industry - Deals

IT business and services company, Logica, has scored its second major federal government deal in a month, with the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) awarding it a five-year contract for the provision of ICT services, infrastructure and support.

The ACMA contract, reportedly worth $10 million, follows on from Logica’s signing of an outsourcing contract last month with the National Health and Medical Research Council. The three-year NHMRC contract - worth $7.64 million – was for the provision of ICT services, infrastructure and support for the NHMRC staff located in Canberra and Melbourne working at the National Institute of Clinical Studies.
 
In the ACMA contract announced today, Logica will provide ICT services and support for ACMA’s 540 staff located in Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney, as well as supporting the organisation’s infrastructure and service management requirements for remote staff based in additional office locations around Australia.

As an FMA agency within the federal government portfolio of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, the ACMA is responsible for the regulation of broadcasting, the Internet, radio communications and telecommunications.
 
ACMA CIO, Cliff Van Lohuizen, said today the ongoing evolution and uptake of new technologies was a focus for the authority, and, as a result, ACMA “require a partner who can support this focus with experience and demonstrated skills in running an IT infrastructure similar to ACMA.”

“We also set out to appoint an organisation who will engage with us in a strategic partnership and be proactive in both recommending and implementing improvements to our IT infrastructure and processes.”

ACMA manager of LAN desktop outsourcing project, Michael Searle, said that, as part of the outsourcing agreement, Logica was tasked with assessing ACMA’s IT requirements and subsequently implementing systems for the transformation and management of the organisation’s servers, desktop and communications infrastructure.

Logica Australia, CEO, Colin Holgate, said the company would put in place a team with “exceptional experience, focused on exceeding customer expectations around product innovation and user satisfaction.”