The Office of the Inspector of Custodial Services and the Mental Health Commission have both appointed Atos in Australia to help transition their workloads and infrastructure to the Atos GovNext-ICT private cloud service.
These appointments present strong early successes in the Atos GovNext-ICT common use arrangement (CUA) contract. A CUA is a whole-of-government standing offer arrangement for the provision of specific goods or services commonly used within government. In January 2017, the Liberal National Government of Western Australia awarded contracts to Atos, Datacom and NEC to supply information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure as a service to the whole-of-government, for the next five years.
At the time, Innovation Minister Bill Marmion said the contracts would deliver an estimated A$65 to A$80 million in annual savings under the GovNext-ICT programme, a key part of the Liberal National Government's Digital WA ICT Strategy launched in May 2016.
Under the new arrangement, all government agencies will purchase through one contract where the three vendors will continuously compete to sell their ICT infrastructure services, reducing procurement costs and delays for both government and suppliers.
Both the agencies have identified the Atos Cloud solution as meeting their immediate needs and are therefore preparing for a full transition of their infrastructure environments, physical and virtual into the Atos Cloud with the aim to increase efficiency, agility and reliability.
The Atos Cloud is to be housed in two tier 3 data centres, NextDC and Metronode in Perth’s metropolitan area. Data connectivity for both the agencies is being supplied by Atos consortium member Vocus.
The projects are expected to complete by early September 2017.
These appointments present strong early successes in the Atos GovNext-ICT common use arrangement (CUA) contract. A CUA is a whole-of-government standing offer arrangement for the provision of specific goods or services commonly used within government. In January 2017, the Liberal National Government of Western Australia awarded contracts to Atos, Datacom and NEC to supply information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure as a service to the whole-of-government, for the next five years.
At the time, Innovation Minister Bill Marmion said the contracts would deliver an estimated A$65 to A$80 million in annual savings under the GovNext-ICT programme, a key part of the Liberal National Government's Digital WA ICT Strategy launched in May 2016.
Under the new arrangement, all government agencies will purchase through one contract where the three vendors will continuously compete to sell their ICT infrastructure services, reducing procurement costs and delays for both government and suppliers.
Both the agencies have identified the Atos Cloud solution as meeting their immediate needs and are therefore preparing for a full transition of their infrastructure environments, physical and virtual into the Atos Cloud with the aim to increase efficiency, agility and reliability.
The Atos Cloud is to be housed in two tier 3 data centres, NextDC and Metronode in Perth’s metropolitan area. Data connectivity for both the agencies is being supplied by Atos consortium member Vocus.
The projects are expected to complete by early September 2017.
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