The Australian Tax Office has released its expression of interest documents for vendors to begin applying for the department's managed network services contract, which has been held by EDS for the past decade. The managed network services contract is expected to be worth AU$55 million per year for a period of up to seven years and covers the ATO's local and wireless networks, application and gateway security, call centres, carriage services, PABX, remote access gateway services, videoconferencing, and desktop handsets, reports Zdnet.
So, the suppliers got their first chance to grab a pie of ATO’s $55 million a year outsourcing business. Now prospective bidders will fight to demonstrate their capability to manage a propel of voice and data communications services under the first tranche of its mammoth Information Technology contract which so far has been managed by global biggie EDS.
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