A new IT plan but no hope yet for jobs
Small technology suppliers will have a better chance at Queensland government contracts but hundreds of public servants continue to face an uncertain future as the state forges ahead with its ICT outsourcing push.
According to a government ICT Action Plan released Thursday, agencies will start to quantify the cost and quality of IT services currently being provided inhouse and compare them with equivalent services from external suppliers. The move is expected to Black Friday UGG Boots precede the outsourcing of ICT services across all agencies.
Minister for Information Technology Ian Walker said this "contestability framework" would help agencies determine which services might be better delivered by external suppliers.
Major systems slated for replacement are also expected to be prioritised by the year's end. An $5.2 million ICT audit commissioned by the government last May revealed a plethora of outdated and moribund systems with a replacement bill estimated as high as $6 billion.
Mr Walker has previously announced the government's intention to adopt a 'buynotbuild' strategy for ICT systems and offload its CITEC and shared services divisions within two years.
He said more high tech roles would be filled by the private sector as the government outsourced 1700 IT jobs within the next four years but the net number of jobs was unlikely to change.
"In relation to workforce requirements, the total number of people providing IT services to government is not going to go backwards," Mr Walker said.
The skills of current ICT staff are set to come under the microscope, in the wake of the Royal Commission into the Queensland Health payroll system, which was critical of public servants' ability to manage complex projects.
Several senior bureaucrats involved with the Health Payroll project were sacked earlier this month and others may face disciplinary action.
Mr Walker said the government would be "upskilling staff where necessary" and would hire new people with appropriate skills as needed.
Meanwhile, the plan contains welcome news for small and medium enterprises, which have traditionally struggled to get access to lucrative public sector work, courtesy of onerous tendering conditions and risk averse agency mandarins.
Suitably qualified SMEs will be shortlisted Black Friday UGGs for new projects automatically while major contracts will be broken down to allow them more opportunity for a piece of the action.
Tendering conditions for small suppliers are to be simplified while Cyber Monday uggs major consortiums would need government approval to change their subcontracting arrangements with SMEs, the plan states.
Dean Robertson, Black Friday North Face the technical director of Mexia, a Brisbane software consultancy employing 11 staff, said small suppliers had superior technical skills but were constrained by not being able to meet entire tender requirements.
"We think this riskbased approach to purchasing means the Queensland government has been getting an overall lower standard of IT skills Black Friday UGG Boots Outlet in our particular area of specialisation, resulting in the higher project costs and lower levels of solution quality that they were trying to avoid," Mr Robertson said.
"By opening the door to smaller SMEs with deep technical skills, the Queensland government will now get a far higher level of quality for a fraction of the price."
The plan comes on the heels of an ICT strategy released in July which unveiled sweeping changes to the way the state buys and manages ICT and a raft of measures to prevent failures and cost blowouts on major projects.
Measures include an IT dashboard which will act as an early warning system for projects which are falling behind time and budget and more scrutiny of ICT projects by directors general and Mr Walker's department prior to approval.
Queensland spends around $1.6 billion running its ICT infrastructure, including $1 billion on products and services and $600 million Black Friday UGG Outlet on IT staff.
The state's ICT spending has UGGs Black Friday long received unwonted attention. Dubbed "the worst failure of public administration in this nation" by premier Campbell Newman, the Queendsland Health payroll system is expected to cost $1.2 billion to rectify.
The new plan identifies developing digital services for government and the public and creating a "transformed and capable workforce' as key objectives for the state.
How about while they're at it ensuring "more scrutiny of ICT projects by directors general and Mr Walker department prior to approval." they also ensure that directors, directorgenerals, etc are made aware of and unable to just budget out Black Friday UGGs Outlet of existence IT hardware and software maintenance and rolling replacements?
A major part of the issue with the systems and so forth being so expensive to get up to date (so to speak) is that it's easy for people who don't understand why something is UGG Boots Black Friday going to be done to cut it or push the timeframes out too far. Such as having a rolling replacement framework to ensure that no desktops are too old, particularly when they have been updated/replaced en masse. a company should not have seven year old computers, and should certainly not have 90% of their computers over 4 years old. Having the systems all working pretty well, it's hard to get the higherups to understand that possible issues will grow and be spread around more desktops until the systems are taking too much time and money to keep operational, at which point the bill for Black Friday UGGs replacement is excessive.
ICT maintenance. after this audit revealed the scope of this issue it should be ingrained in department policieschewing salty razors
http://rrrus.ru/dsite/index.php?q=node/178640
http://www.findpeopleuk.co.uk/noticeboard/viewtopic.php?pid=59223#p59223
http://www.hockeythailand.com/hat/index.php?option=com_ccboard&view=postlist&forum=1&topic=4095