1 August 2012: ZDNet reports that The Australian Government Management Information Office (AGIMO) has gone to market for “datacentre as a service” vendors that can provide cloud services to agencies.
Last year, AGIMO released a discussion paper looking at how the IT industry could help the government provide datacentre services to government agencies that spend less than AU$2 million per year on IT operations. It wanted to simplify the procurement of services for contracts under AU$80,000 and less than 12 months’ duration.
Full story here.