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Information and Communications Technology Provider Arrangement (ICTPA) Request for Market Feedback
Defence currently utilises a number of panel arrangements, which are either internal Defence panels or Whole of Government (WoG) panels, to source goods and services from the market in support of its ICT environment.
In late 2015, a sourcing strategy was developed and in accordance with the sourcing strategy’s recommendations Defence intends to progressively replace its existing ICT panel framework.
The aim of the ICTPA is to enable Defence to become a smarter and more sophisticated buyer of ICT goods and services through the implementation of a new structural framework that allows Defence to procure affordable, high quality and flexible services that provide Value for Money (VfM) by engaging the market through a new ICT sourcing ecosystem.
The ICTPA may potentially include a mix of end-to-end and niche suppliers covering three potential Service Towers. These potential Service Towers are as follows:
a. Application Services: includes the development, maintenance, support and service management of applications.
b. Systems Integration: the development and deployment of systems, including services relating to the connection and aggregation of disparate subsystems, functionalities or software applications to form one coordinated and functional system used to facilitate the execution of information processing required during the execution of one or more of the Department of Defence’s business processes. Systems Integration primarily varies from Applications development in terms of scale, end-to-end scope and complexity.
c. ICT Services: includes the provision of services for all the ICT Service Categories that Chief Information Officer Group (CIOG) expects will apply within Defence. These services involve the engagement of specialist and niche providers as well as contractors or a group of contractors in a non-permanent position to deliver discrete ICT Services to satisfy specific business or technical needs
The purpose of this notice is to advise Industry of a potential Approach to Market (ATM) in 2017 for the establishment of the Information Communications Technology Provider Arrangement (ICTPA) panel and to seek Industry's feedback on the following draft request documents.
- Deed
- Service Tower Modules
- Service Tower Statements of Work
- Performance Framework; and
- Administration Fee
Respondents are to complete and provide the information requested in the Response Schedules and are to do so in the manner requested in the Response Schedules.
Response Schedules are contained in the Request for Market feedback document.
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ICTPA.RFT@defence.gov.au