[LINK] Sustainable ICT Procurement for Canberra

[Tom Worthington]

I wrote:
> I will be giving evidence to the ACT Legislative Assembly Public
> Accounts Committee, 9:30 am, 4 March 2010 on "Sustainable ICT
> Procurement" ...

The hearing went well. Thankyou to the Linkers who came along to provide 
moral support. The committee was interested in green procurement
for ICT, very interested in having common procurement practices between
the ACT and federal government and most interested in removing
impediments to small business tendering. They were not interested
in the ACT government having staff trained in green practices.

Of note were questions about insurance requirements in government
tenders causing problems for small IT businesses. I suggested a cap on
professional indemnity (the ACS has a scheme with a $1.5M cap for NSW).
Also I suggested making the worker's compensation paperwork simpler. I
threatened to move my business from Canberra to NSW if this was not
done. Desperate times call for desperate measures. ;-)

More at:
<http://www.tomw.net.au/blog/2010/03/sustaining-small-ict-business-in.html>.


-- 
Tom Worthington FACS HLM, TomW Communications Pty Ltd. t: 0419496150
PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617, Australia  http://www.tomw.net.au
Adjunct Lecturer, The Australian National University t: 02 61255694
Computer Science http://cs.anu.edu.au/user/3890