Treasury hands $5.8m ERP deal to Technology One

The federal Treasury has awarded Technology One a three-year, $5.8 million contract to provide the software for an enterprise resource planning system.

Technology One won the contract through a tender process that commenced in April, CRN reported.

As part of the project Treasury is migrating its individual ERP systems and processes, including financial, asset management, business intelligence, performance planning and enterprise budgeting, to a single hosted off-the-shelf platform.

But the Treasury plans to initially continue using its existing Aurion system for HR management, on the grounds that Technology One's offering is not configured enough for government use out of the box. The agency will meanwhile continue using separate expense management and CRM systems.

The ABS will also take advantage of the contract via a shared services arrangement. The deal covers 1000 Treasury and 2500 ABS seats.

Treasury has an ambition of becoming a service provider to other small and medium-sized government agencies, suggesting that the shared services arrangement could be expanded to cover more agencies in the future.

The major advantage of a shared service arrangement is the cost-saving potential. More shared service customers means lower prices for both Treasury and the agencies making use of the arrangement.

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