THREE of the largest IT firms in Western Australia have secured contracts with the state's police service potentially worth up to $360 million over the next 10 years.
THREE of the largest IT firms in Western Australia have secured contracts with the state's police service potentially worth up to $360 million over the next 10 years.
The contracts have been awarded to CSC Australia and Kinetic IT, both of which have serviced the police since 2004, and Ajilon.
Kinetic will take up sole responsibility for internet communication technology infrastructure support services, which were previously supplied jointly with CSC.
The police service estimates the new contract could be worth $140 million over the next decade, supplementing Kinetic's other recent successes in securing contracts with Landgate and the education department, each worth more than $100 million.
CSC is now focusing on project services and application support and maintenance services.
CSC WA general manager Mike Horton said the police had awarded two Ajilon contracts and two CSC contracts.
"Ajilon have the application support contract and are on the panel for the project service contract alongside CSC," Mr Horton told WA Business News.
"CSC also has an application support contract for their [police] SAP support."
SAP (systems applications and products) support services for WA Police's resource management information system are estimated to be worth $15 million.
Mr Horton said CSC's experience and applications in the mining and oil and gas sectors, such as vehicle tracking, enhancing mobility and radio frequency identification, were able be applied to law enforcement.
WA Police acting chief information officer Tony O'Donoghue said the larger project services contract, awarded to Ajilon and CSC under a panel arrangement, was estimated to be worth $120.5 million over 10 years.
"The model is designed to ensure maximum comprehensiveness which is aimed at providing WAPOL with further flexibility, capacity and choice when preparing for systems development projects and major ICT infrastructure projects," Mr O'Donoghue said.
Ajilon general manager WA Chris Benthien said the application support contract, Ajilon's largest application support contract to date, was estimated to be worth $85.6 million.
"There are 113 police applications and we provide all the support for them," he said.
"We've seemed to have come of age in town and we're fitting into that tier-one phase now, which is great.
"We had some pretty humble beginnings 10 years ago as a start up so it's been a good journey."
