[LINK] Show me the money

[Stephen Edgar]

I might be over simplifying this but based on your figure of $70 million per annum out of the $16 Billion per annum annual spend by government agencies on computer & communications makes the total spend to Microsoft (and what consultation was calculated) at 0.43% of annual government expenditure.

More info on Sir Peter Gershon's "Review-of-the-Australian-Governments-Use-of-Information-and-Communication-Technology" is on [LINK] here http://mailman.anu.edu.au/pipermail/link/2008-October/079600.html

Cheers,

Stephen Edgar

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From: link-bounces at mailman1.anu.edu.au [mailto:link-bounces at mailman1.anu.edu.au] On Behalf Of Michael Still
Sent: Monday, 27 October 2008 2:16 PM
To: sylvano at gnomon.com.au
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Subject: Re: [LINK] Show me the money

Sylvano wrote:
> A quick aside:
>
> I noticed that the Australian Parliament House website has a new search
> functionality, layout and look since I was there last.
>
> Going to the Advanced tab is a little more daunting than the old
> version, with an options panel akin to a flight panel.  But there is a
> nice feature now, where you can tick items and add them to 'your list'
> to build up saved document references.  Oh, and the spirit of
> social networks, you can define your search profile.
>
> http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/search.w3p
>
>
> Anyway, the money.
>
> While at the aph, I happened upon the notice about the
> "Senate Order on Government Agency Contracts" that requires:
>
> <quote>
> each Minister to table a letter of advice that a list of contracts,
> in respect of each agency administered by that Minister, has been
> placed on the Internet, with access to the list through the
> department's home page. The letter must be tabled no later than
> the 10th day of the spring and autumn sittings each year.
> </quote>
>
> It's for contracts $100,000+

I got bored. Here's a summary of expenditure on Microsoft software for
the six month reporting period (as best as I can tell based on the
information to hand):

http://www.stillhq.com/diary/001102.html

So, about $70 million annually.

Mikal
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