CSG wins multi-million dollar government contract

Peter Dinham
Thursday, 02 July 2009 10:34

IT Industry - Deals

IT services group, CSG is to deliver an online portal and support services to students in Victorian state schools under a $64.6 million, four year contract with the Victorian Government.

CSG will deploy the Ultranet, Oracle student learning portal, in every government school in Victoria at a cost of $47.5 million in the initial two-year contract, and also provide ongoing support, including application hosting, software maintenance, and disaster recovery and helpdesk services for an additional two years at a further cost of $17.1 million.

CSG’s education lead and former managing director of Cinglevue, Greg Tolefe said the software provided as part of the solution to the Victorian Government was the result of many years collaboration between Cinglevue - acquired by CSG in October 2008 - and Oracle’s global education practice.

“The solution is truly world class, and will support learning in all Victorian government schools.”

CSG CEO, Denis Mackenzie, claimed the contract would involve “the first true enterprise solution deployed in P-12 education in Australia,” and he added, "is one of the first systems in the world to offer such a high level of functionality to students, teachers, parents and administrators.”

“This is also an exciting step for our business, as it represents our largest multi-year contract in the enterprise services division. I believe this will also open up significant opportunities in education around the country, where other states are looking to procure similar solutions.
 
“Despite the economic conditions, both our managed services and enterprise services divisions continue to grow their pipelines of potential multi-year contract opportunities.”