ICT Procurement Savings

In reply to Mr SPEIRS (Bright) (24 July 2015). (Estimates Committee B)

The Hon. S.E. CLOSE (Port Adelaide—Minister for Education and Child Development, Minister for the Public Sector): I have been advised of the following:

During 2014-15 the Office for Digital Government completed four strategic ICT procurement projects that will deliver $53.9 million in savings to government over the next five years, as follows:

Distributed Computing Support Services (DCSS)—commenced 1 July 2014, a panel of two suppliers, providing management, maintenance and support on all government-owned servers;

Network Management Services (NMS)—commenced 1 October 2014, a single supplier arrangement, to provide management, maintenance and support of the state's central and agency data networks;

Network Internet Services (NIS)—commenced 1 November 2014, a single supplier arrangement, to provide a managed internet connection to the state's data networks; and

Network Carriage Services (NCS)—commenced 1 December 2014, a panel of six suppliers of data and voice (fixed, mobile and wireless) carriage services to all agencies.

Table 1, below, shows the estimated savings to be generated from these arrangements that are already included in forward budget estimates:

Table 1—projected savings from strategic procurements commenced during 2014-15 financial year

Please note that, after undergoing a number of recent organisational changes, strategic ICT (and now also non-ICT) procurement is now the responsibility of the Strategic Procurement division of the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, Services.

Note that details for these and other strategic ICT contracts can be found at: http://dpc.sa.gov.au/strategic-procurement.