DiData wins $40m SA Govt IT contract

Stan Beer
Friday, 31 March 2006 10:37

IT Industry - Deals

IT services provider, Dimension Data, has won one of the major contracts in the South Australian Government's Future ICT procurement program. The contract to provide managed network services is estimated to be worth $40 million over a three year period.

Under the managed network services contract, Dimension Data will manage monitoring, break/fix services, administration and support for the South Australian Government's network and firewall infrastructure. Dimenion Data will provide approximately 200 metropolitan and regional government agencies with services including intrusion detection and prevention, network and security consulting and advisory services, threat analysis and response and vulnerability assessments.

'During the bid process, we were able to demonstrate our proven expertise and industry leadership in the areas of managed network and security services. As part of the core managed service, we are providing government agencies with real-time visibility of their networks and the status of key devices - which proved to be a really influential offering in our proposal,' said Steve Nola, Australian CEO, Dimension Data.

'Also, one of the key elements of the contract is that it has been written in terms of ITIL (the IT Infrastructure Library) for service management. Dimension Data's global services centre, which will provide the centralised support for the network, is structured based on ITIL principles, aligning the South Australian Government's service expectations with the services delivered by Dimension Data.'

According to Dimension Data the company has already, in preparation for the contract, initiated a scholarship scheme to provide new employees with Cisco certified training, with the opportunity for employment in a number of positions.