New Department of Health chief to reconsider IT procurement

23 Nov 2010

Source:  IT News
Newly appointed chief information officer Paul Madden will step into Australia's Department of Health and Ageing (DOHA) at a crucial juncture, as the agency looks to reel in IT spending and consider its outsourcing future.

Madden, appointed as DOHA's first CIO in five years will within months have to decide whether the department continues with an outsourcing partnership with IBM GSA which has not been market tested in over a decade.

Departmental representatives have sheltered behind "commercial-in-confidence" to avoid informing Parliament whether it intends to offer IT services on the open market when its current agreement with IBM ends in June 2011.

DOHA spent over $1.5 million this year alone on external consultants for advice on whether to put its IT services requirements up for tender, but has not yet used that advice to make any decisions.

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