The Federal Government has added four suppliers to its Data Centre Facilities Supplies Panel as part of its program to cut costs and increase the efficiency of its technology infrastructure. The new suppliers are Australian Data Centres, Canberra Data Centres, Datapod (Australia), and NextDC Limited. In a blog post earlier today, Mundi Thomlinson, assistant secretary at the Department of Finance and Deregulation, said the updated panel augments the government’s existing arrangements. He said it offers agencies a more scalable and flexible method to meet a wide range of requirements. “Under these new data centre procurement arrangements, we will be entering [into] service contracts rather than leases to procure supplies from located in Australia.” In 2010, the government created a new data centre strategy and setup a panel for data centre facilities, which covers 20 sites across Australia. In April last year, the Australian government’s CTO, John Sheridan, said the government had signed more than $300 million worth of data centre contracts and avoided $24 million worth of costs. This followed the April 2008 review by Sir Peter Gershon, which suggested that if the government didn’t change its data centre arrangements over the next 10 to 15 years, it would incur an extra $1 billion in costs. At the time, the government was spending $870 million per year on outsourced and insourced data centres. Related content BrandPost The future of trust—no more playing catch up Broadcom: 2023 Tech Trends That Transform IT By Eric Chien, Director of Security Response, Symantec Enterprise Division, Broadcom Mar 31, 2023 5 mins Security BrandPost TCS gives Blackhawk Network an edge with Microsoft Cloud In this case study, Blackhawk Network’s Cara Renfroe joins Tata Consultancy Services’ Rakesh Kumar and Microsoft’s Nilendu Pattanaik to explain how TCS transformed the gift card company’s customer engagement and global operati By Tata Consultancy Services Mar 31, 2023 1 min Financial Services Industry Cloud Computing IT Leadership BrandPost How TCS pioneered the ‘borderless workspace’ with Microsoft 365 Microsoft’s modern workplace solution proved a perfect fit for improving productivity and collaboration, while maintaining security of systems and data. By Tata Consultancy Services Mar 31, 2023 1 min Financial Services Industry Microsoft Cloud Computing BrandPost Supply chain decarbonization: The missing link to net zero By improving the quality of global supply chain data, enterprises can better measure their true carbon footprint and make progress toward a net-zero business ecosystem. By Tata Consultancy Services Mar 31, 2023 2 mins Retail Industry Supply Chain Green IT Podcasts Videos Resources Events SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe