Winners and losers as Ministry for Primary Industries names managed IT services supplier panel
Other government agencies can climb aboard deal.
The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI, formerly the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry) has named the companies that have won a place on its panel to supply managed information technology services.
They are Datacom, Fujitsu NZ and Telecom services division Gen-i.
The agreement covers the provision of service aggregation, service desk support, user device support, server support, procurement services, database management and other IT services.
Under the new agreement, MPI will engage Fujitsu to provide IT managed services to the ministry from November 1, 2012 - displacing the incumbent Unisys.
MPI was the lead agency in developing the agreement, with support from several other public sector agencies.
It is possible that other public sector agencies may join the syndicated agreement later.
The syndicated agreement was signed on May 4.
The value and other commercial details of the agreement are confidential but are expected to result in cost savings, the ministry says.
The government has been on a drive to centralise information and technology procurement to take advantage of its bulk buying power.
Under the initiative, suppliers have to agree to keen pricing - which NBR ONLINE understands is 20% below ticket in telecommunications - to be in contention for a place on a supplier panel.
The government said a recent all-of-government mobile phone deal (with Gen-i, Vodafone and 2degrees) would save it $12 million a year.
Another state sector-wide procurement deal, announced late last year, saw Datacom and Revera named to a panel to supply infrastructure-as-a-service or "cloud computing" services.
NBR staff
Tue, 15 May 2012
Tue, 15 May 2012
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Winners and losers as Ministry for Primary Industries names managed IT services supplier panel
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