ASG picks up WA IT services work

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blog Nice work if you can get it. Perth-headquartered IT services outfit has revealed several major new tranches of IT services work over the past several weeks that is putting it in good stead with the Western Australian State Government. This morning the company revealed a new $11.3 million deal with the Department of Housing; a media release tells us:

“The agreement, which was secured following a rigorous competitive tender, will see ASG provide key components managed services and has potential to generate additional revenue through associated projects over the five-year contract term. ASG first provided services to the Department of Housing over five years ago.

The contract with the Department of Housing is among $36 million in new deals that ASG has concluded in recent weeks, including a $14.8 million five-year deal with the Department of Education in Western Australia for Oracle licenses and support services.

ASG is close to finalising an additional $50 million worth of agreements across a range of customers nationwide as the preferred tenderer in exclusive negotiations, demonstrating its ability to leverage its unique offer of projects, managed services and New World Computing.”

And last week it was another deal with the Western Australian Department of Education involving Oracle, one of ASG’s long-term strong suits. From the company’s statement at the time:

“The new five-year contract, managed by ASG’s Business Solutions team, will provide the Department with a strategic support and licensing modernisation solution, and marks the first time ASG has provided this type of solution as a restructuring of an existing customer’s Oracle licences.

ASG, which has provided finance, HR and payroll managed services and project services for the Department since 2006, will continue to play a strategic role in the Department’s future direction, maximising the return of its technology investment to efficiently service Western Australian education. ASG is the supplier of all Oracle licences to the Department of Education, which has the largest payroll in Western Australia.”

To my mind, what these kinds of contracts goes to show is the importance of state-based IT services work in Australia. Despite the fact that massive global IT services groups like IBM, HP, Fujitsu, CSC, Unisys and so on operate right around Australia, state governments and certain state-focused corporations still often tend to favour IT services outfits which have strengths in certain states. You see this with ASG in Western Australia, Oakton and SMS Management & Technology in Victoria and Canberra and Data#3 in Queensland. You used to see it a bit with KAZ in NSW, but I guess in Sydney major organisations are kind of spoilt for choice. One does wonder to what extent the historical strength of EDS in South Australia is helping HP Enterprise Services down south.

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  1. Riiiiiiiiiiiight, and this just in, WA Government as of today increases the cost of living for us west-aussies ten-fold so that they can recover from falling revenues.

    Honestly, it is deals like this that make a west-aussie just fall down and cry.

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