Ministry of Justice retains Gen-i but signs three others
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Review of ICT arrangements prompts ministry to move to multiple vendors
By Randal Jackson | Wellington | Tuesday, 13 November, 2012 | 43 Comments
The Ministry of Justice has reviewed its ICT service arrangements and decided to move to a multi-sourced vendor model, engaging three new service providers to work alongside its existing partner, Gen-i.
Gerald Aberdeen, general manager information and communications technology, says a new contract has been signed with Gen-i for telecommunications services, in partnership with justice sector colleague the Department of Corrections.
This will allow the ministry to improve and future-proof its voice and data networking technologies, he says. It will also allow the ministry to be more agile in scaling its network to better provide technologies such as desktop video conferencing and wi-fi in the future.
The networks that connect to ministry buildings will be upgraded and telephones will be changed to voice over internet protocol.
TelstraClear has been contracted to provide ICT security. This includes managing internet access, protecting the environment from unauthorised users (firewall management), scanning of emails for issues such as viruses and scams, remote access (VPN), anti-virus for desktops, and disk encryption for laptops.
Revera has been contracted under the all-of-government agreement to provide services, including computing, storage, back-up and housing of ministry services. Aberdeen says this means the ministry will no longer need to buy hardware such as servers to store data or run applications.
Fujitsu has been contracted to provide core infrastructure services. It will be responsible for service desk, desktop management, email server management and the new role of service aggregator, where it will have responsibility for managing all other IT infrastructure suppliers.
Comments
bye bye geni
good riddance. take that terrible management down with you.
Posted by Anonymous at 20:17:17 on November 18, 2012
Posted by Anonymous at 20:17:17 on November 18, 2012
bye bye geni
i think they are really good considering they dont know what they are doing
Posted by Anonymous at 20:20:33 on November 18, 2012
Posted by Anonymous at 20:20:33 on November 18, 2012
thought police
CW removing comments again i see.
Posted by Anonymous at 19:49:12 on November 18, 2012
Posted by Anonymous at 19:49:12 on November 18, 2012
Gen-i a sinking ship
Good riddens MoJ -The worst client in history of government clients! I have never had to deal with any client as difficult or unprofessional than MoJ - always after everything for free. There's some excellent talent within Gen-i but I'm afraid a total lack of senior leadership. The two levels of management above my manager wouldn't know even a third of my team or understand what we do. Another big restructure about to happen and a lot of GOOD middle management about to be let go throughout the business. Time to look for another opportunity with a REAL IT company
Posted by Anonymous at 20:31:03 on November 16, 2012
Posted by Anonymous at 20:31:03 on November 16, 2012
Gen-i a sinking ship
I'd have to agree. The management above the line managers are terrible.
Posted by Anonymous at 9:30:14 on November 19, 2012
Posted by Anonymous at 9:30:14 on November 19, 2012
Gen-i a sinking ship
And they are letting those line managers go?
Posted by Anonymous at 16:09:11 on November 19, 2012
Posted by Anonymous at 16:09:11 on November 19, 2012
Yup
It's about time Gen-I threw in the towel. Best sales organisation award with a complete lack of delivery. Some of the best resource in their hay day with an utter lack of leadership.
Abandon ship Gen-I staffers. You are doomed. Flee the perverted Frankenstein that was Computerland. Your days of selling telephones are done.
Oh, BTW, Gen-I did bid for ACC.
Posted by Anonymous at 19:04:35 on November 14, 2012
Abandon ship Gen-I staffers. You are doomed. Flee the perverted Frankenstein that was Computerland. Your days of selling telephones are done.
Oh, BTW, Gen-I did bid for ACC.
Posted by Anonymous at 19:04:35 on November 14, 2012
Yup
YES, Gen-i did bid for ACC, twice in fact.
As the incumbent supplier they had the opportunity to put a new proposal on the table (without any other competition) before the decision was made to go to RFP. That proposal was evaluated by ACC, rejected and the decision was then made to go to the market.
Gen-i DID submit a response to the RFP and they weren't successful.
Posted by Anonymous at 8:40:59 on November 22, 2012
As the incumbent supplier they had the opportunity to put a new proposal on the table (without any other competition) before the decision was made to go to RFP. That proposal was evaluated by ACC, rejected and the decision was then made to go to the market.
Gen-i DID submit a response to the RFP and they weren't successful.
Posted by Anonymous at 8:40:59 on November 22, 2012
Yup
Gen-i delivered a one pager. Call that a bid if you want. In business terms it I think it is not.
Posted by Anonymous at 15:41:08 on November 15, 2012
Posted by Anonymous at 15:41:08 on November 15, 2012
Yup
The lady doth protest too much, methinks. Bitter ex gen-i employee, anywhere? I always found Gen-i to be the best of a pretty average bunch. They must love all this fuss about their losses, everyone jumping up and down as if they're the only integrator in the market. Gen-i were never a perfect provider, but then who is...
Posted by Anonymous at 15:34:12 on November 15, 2012
Posted by Anonymous at 15:34:12 on November 15, 2012
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