Posts tagged ‘ICT Services Panel’

Portfolio Panels for IT Services Policy

As announced by the Special Minister of State, Gary Gray, in a media release today, the Secretaries’ ICT Governance Board has endorsed the Portfolio Panels for IT Services Policy. This policy, effective immediately, is the outcome of the consultation across industry and agencies on the optimisation of IT Services Panels including the 2010 discussion paper, commonly referred to as WISP.

The new policy provides the flexibility that agencies require over a wide range of IT Services. It will deliver operational efficiencies while maintaining a high level of open competition. Read more

WISPering back – an initial analysis of your comments

Thank you to all who provided comments on the ICT services panel discussion paper. Our initial analysis has been encouraging and the high volume of responses, considered arguments and alternative solutions has given us a clear understanding of how you think the WISP proposal should proceed. In this post, we’ve summarized the comments from the blog and emails for all to read. Read more

Your comments on the ICT services panel discussion paper

I’d like to begin by thanking all of you who have made comments on the ICT services panel discussion paper so far – whether on the blog, in separate emails or via the media or other means. We were very keen to get a good discussion going on this important subject and we seem to have succeeded. There is still plenty of time to get involved so, if you have something to add, from the industry, academic, individual or industry perspective, please do so. Read more

ICT Services Panel Industry Briefing

We would like to measure your interest in a briefing session following the completion of my post on the proposed ICT Services Panel. Comments on that post will close on 21 January 2011 (update) the morning of January 27 2011 and the briefing session would be scheduled once the responses have been analysed. Read more

WISPers of change – ICT services panel discussion paper

AGIMO is pleased to continue its program of consulting industry to seek advice on procurement issues. Today we are releasing a discussion paper on proposals for new ICT services panel arrangements — available here on the blog in DOC (127k), PDF (101k) and HTML formats. We want to emphasise that this is a discussion paper. It is not policy, or even draft policy. The paper outlines the current ICT services panel situation, proposes a new model and encourages your input on the proposals. Some represent just incremental change from current practices. Others, if supported, could be more profound. Read more