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EDS, an HP company, today announced it has signed a $61 million (AU$96 million) agreement to manage the technology infrastructure for the Australia Department of Agriculture, Fishery and Forestry, providing expanded technology services across the department’s key locations and increased economic value to the Commonwealth.

Under the five-year agreement, EDS will provide desktop, server, storage and architecture services.

“This agreement will help the Australian federal government meet its business and policy objectives and deliver better return on investment to the Australian people,” said David Caspari, managing director for Australia and New Zealand at EDS, an HP company. “It builds on existing services we provide to the government and strengthens EDS’ position as the No. 1 government supplier in the country.”

EDS will manage and provide help and service desk support to approximately 5,000 employees across the department’s 300 locations, as well as provide the overall storage and IT architecture and design services in a multivendor agency environment.

The demand for outsourcing services/projects continues whether it’s as a result of an effort to reduce costs, to add value to a specific project requirement or to transform the way IT is funded and provisioned. That I can transform my IT to a more fixed cost, to let me focus on delivering my services and have someone else focus on delivering the platforms and IT services I need for my business or organization, the only issue I have is that everything becomes billable, but interestingly, this can do two things, focus the mind on what it is we actually need in terms of IT, and it can actually work out cheaper or more affordable – for example on the desktop, one of the service providers quoted me £900 a year for a user with Office and a PC supported, they replaced the pc every year because it made the support cheaper for them. If you compare that cost, with how much it might cost you to provision and support a pc using your internal processes with the three year operation way of doing business and you can see the business benefit.

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