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The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) is seeking a managed, hosted internal crisis communications system, to support its ability to respond to disruptions caused by severe weather events or data centre failures.
Tender documents issued last week indicated that the bureau had decided to upgrade its internal systems after a number of "high impact events" since January 2010 -- such as severe bushfires in Victoria and South Australia, and the Queensland floods between December 2010 and January 2011.
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NSW Finance & Services Minister Greg Pearce has labelled procurement panels as costly and time-consuming for suppliers in a speech to state parliament last week.
Pearce said panels also locked government into a few suppliers, often for nearly five years, limiting access to innovations in the marketplace, including better products and better prices.
He proposed a more open-ended pre-qualification scheme for aspiring suppliers to government, believing such arrangements would also give small and medium enterprises more opportunities to contest for government work.
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The Department of Education Employment and Work Relations (DEEWR) is building a new shared service solution to manage the workflow of parliamentary documents for 41 agencies.
Source: IT News