Legal Tender: MED seeks fleet solutions
In a new feature, Telecommunications Review columnist Simon Hendery summarises the latest tender opportunities, as well as offering a wrap-up of recently-inked deals.
Opportunities
The Ministry of Economic Development is calling for proposals for fleet optimisation services suitable for use by any government agency. MED says it is looking to sign a syndicated contract, so any of 216 eligible government agencies could sign up to the arrangement. It says it is looking for a range of possible solutions including GPS-based tracking devices and manual fleet auditing, as well as on-going vehicle booking systems which allow agencies to utilise their vehicle fleet efficiently.
NZQA has begun the process of establishing an IT technical services panel. The Qualifications Authority is seeking vendors to supply IT contract resources on a labour-only basis and says the panel will be its primary source for IT resources for a period of up to five years.
The Ministry of Social Development has released a request for proposal aimed at establishing a panel of suppliers to provide IT testing services. MSD says its testing services panel will be additional to its existing IT contracted resources panel, established last year, comprising Starfish Consulting, Gen-i, HP and Fronde. The Department of Internal Affairs recently established a testing services panel comprising: Assurity Ltd, Planit, Qual IT and The Testing Consultancy.
Statistics NZ is seeking an activity based costing software application to help it improve its business intelligence function and contribute to greater efficiency. The agency says its project will include using existing costing information to develop a model which can be maintained to provide an on-going source of information for decision making and cost monitoring.
Details of the above tenders can be found here.
Deals
Statistics NZ has renewed its relationship with Fujitsu, signing a $5 million-plus deal with the company for the supply of storage area network and back-up related products and services. The deal runs for three years plus two rights-of-extension periods of two years each.
The Department of Conservation is deploying an Infinity centralised sales and inventory management system from Triquestra International at 22 visitor centres across the country. Triquestra will work with DoC to install the Infinity Head Office system, link up all visitor centres, cleanse data, upgrade ten existing sites that use Infinity Retail Management Systems and configure each site according to its specific requirements.
The long-time IT agreement between IBM and Westpac will continue for another five years, the companies have announced. The new contract, which will last until 2017, builds on an agreement first signed in 2000. Read the full story here.
The Environmental Protection Authority has awarded three small ICT-related contracts. Starfish Consulting has been picked to supply IT project management services to support the EPA’s establishment project (it shifted from being part of the Ministry for the Environment to a stand-alone Crown agency in July). Simpl Group has won a contract for testing services for the same establishment project while Zintel Cogent is replacing the Authority’s PABX. All three contracts are valued at under $50,000.
