SOURCING and information technology management firm TSA Corporation has opened an office in Brisbane as part of national expansion plans that the company hopes will lead the way to further eastern States contracts.
This follows the company’s recent contract win with the City of Stirling.
Its new office will initially service a new contract with the St Vincent De Paul Society in Queensland, developing and implementing its national web services.
East Perth-based TSA Corporation already has the contract for running the IT services for St Vincent De Paul in WA.
TSA Corporation joint director Greg Davidson, who has just returned from establishing the office in Queensland, said the company had employed a small number of local staff in Brisbane to service the contract and that it was expected the office would “expand reasonably quickly”.
Remaining tight-lipped on the value of the contract, Mr Davidson said “it was a good sustainable business” and involved the transition of new and improved business processes.
“Part of the commitment [in securing the national St Vincent De Paul contract] was that we would establish a larger presence in Queensland,” he said.
Mr Davidson said the company’s WA contract with St Vincent De Paul provided the not-for-profit organisation with the “confidence to choose a Perth-based company”, despite drawing some criticism for not awarding the contract to a Queensland-based company.
The company was now looking to secure more local government work in Western Australia, Queensland and other eastern States and would look at establishing a presence in Melbourne before the end of the year, he said.
The company already has several contracts in Melbourne, including one with Retravision that involves national strategic planning.
TSA joint director Con Polkinghorne said the company had also recently been awarded several contracts worth several hundreds of thousands of dollars per year over two years with the City of Stirling.
Under the terms of one contract, which the company won in an open tendering process, TSA Corporation will provide a project management office for the implementation and integration of a new suite of software products including financial applications, land information systems, document management systems and asset management systems.
TSA Corporation last year acquired web firm Kuban Empire, subsequent to moving into new premises, ‘TSA House’, in East Perth in November 2003.