RECORD XZIG MEETING WED 28/11/2001 TO REVIEW TENDER ITS2305 INDEX Tender ITS 2305 Purpose of Meeting Attendees Government Strategy with tenders ebXML Australia Outcome

TENDER ITS 2305
On Tue 23/10/2001 NSW Supply issued a Tender on behalf of the NSW State Government Contract Control Board.

This tender was for Contract ITS 2305 - Provision of Internet Services and Products for a 4 year period
01 Feburary 2002 - 31 January 2006

This contract is a Standing Offer Agreement for a number of ISP services.  The services required are:

	       Cat  1 - ISP Services
			1.1 General ISP Services
			1.2 Specialist ISP Services
               Cat  2 - Managed Internet Services
			2.1 Web-site Hosting Services
			2.2 Web-site Management Services
			2.3 Electronic Commerce Interchange Services
               Cat  3 - Internet Professional Services
			3.1 Web-site Design & Content Specialists
			3.2 Internet Application Integration Specialists
			3.3 Internet Technical Specialists
			3.4 Internet Business Analysts, Project Managers and Consultants
               Cat  4 - Web Page Design & Authoring Tools
               Cat  5 - Web-site Content Management Systems
               Cat  6 - Internet Indexing, Search and Retrieval Systems
               Cat  7 - Internet Enterprise Portal Systems
               Cat  8 - Internet Application Development Products
               Cat  9 - Internet Application Development Server Products
               Cat 10 - Electronic Business Application Suites
               Cat 11 - Internet Gateway Infrastructure
               Cat 12 - Integrated Web based Solutions

The response to the Tender is due Tue 05 Dec 2001. 
                                          
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PURPOSE OF MEETING
The key aspect of the meeting was not to discuss the ISP services required but the tenderer compliance 
requirements.

These covered a number of issues including:

	1	NSW Government Codes of Procurement

	2	NSW Government Procurement Guidelines

	3	Complying with Universal Standard Product & Services Classification

	4	E-commerce capability

	5	Selection Criteria

	6	Capacity to Perform

	7	Performance Management Assessment

ATTENDEES
The OIC has been working with the Australian Workflow Management Coalition [AWfMC] to raise awarenesss of
worklow analsysis as a key aspect for effective E-business processes.

The Solution 6 Group kindly sponsored the review meeting on Wed 28/11/2001.

The meeting was attended by the following organisations:

		Accelio
		Adcorp
		Aiyom
		Australian Stock Exchange
		E-ngima solutions
		Chromeglobal
		Fuji Xerox
		Fujitsu Australia
		Halisa
		Indigo Pacific
		Internova
		NetStar Australia
		Object Oriented
		Open Text
		Platinion
		Solution 6
		Softprojex
		Southern Spirit Software
		St George Bank
		TATA Consultancy Services
                                          
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FUTURE FEDERAL AND STATE GOVERNMENT TENDERS
The meeting discussed how OIC XZIG attendees had learned from previous speakers that the Federal Government 
strategy was for all 3 levels of Government (Federal, State and Local) to provide their tenders electronically.
E-business would be driven by Federal Government strategy.  These speakers include 

Sep 2001	1	John GRANT
				Chief General Manager Government On-line
				National Office for the Information Economy [NOIE]

Oct 2001	2	Patrick CALLIONI 
				Chief General Manager Information Economy
				National Office for the Information Economy [NOIE]

This progress was being monitored by the number of tenders provided by the OIC Tender Information Management
Service [TIMS] 

Over 70% of the Electronic tenders were from Federal and State Government tenders hence it was becoming 
increasingly important for companies that wished to respond to these tenders to understand the selection criteria and
what Government was requiring from suppliers.

The OIC was keeping track of each State Government codes of tendering and codes of practice.

This is why becoming a member of the OIC would assist those organisations understand what needed to be carried 
out to comply with the requirements of winning Government business.

In addition the real benefit of being a participating project member of the OIC was to network with other organsiations to meet the full requirements
on increasingly complex tenders.
                                          
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OUTCOME
The function of the OIC is to provide a forum for organisations to network both physically and electronically
particularly for working together on projects and tenders.

In the short time left for this particular tender it was proposed that attendees completed their own submission.  

However the OIC was submitting a proposal to NSW DPWS that it could provide the infrastructure to enable
its members to be aware of and comply with the various codes of practice and requirements for the tender.

The attendees may wish to include that aspect as part of the submission if they registered a membership application 
before 17:00 Mon 04/12/2001.

This would also apply to other Federal and State Government tenders as the OIC plans for 2002 include 
a training program to assist members meet the requirments of E-tendering.

The meeting concluded with a questionnaire for attendees to complete which identified those
ISP services that they would be able to provide for this and future tenders.
                                          
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