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• Defence calls on partners to join landmark IT services panel

  ​Australia’s Department of Defence has officially opened its incoming IT services procurement panel to bids from the country’s IT providers.

• ​Government won’t outsource Medicare payments system: Turnbull

  The rollout and management of an updated Medicare payments system will not be outsourced to the private sector, prime minister Malcolm Turnbull reaffirmed last night.

• ​Merck signs mega support deal with Unisys

  Pharmaceutical giant, Merck, has signed a massive five-year contract that will see Unisys provide end user IT services to its 48,000 staff worldwide.
  

• Australian IT spend to increase despite global decline

  Australian IT spending for 2015 will increase 2.1 per cent from last year, reaching almost A$78.1 billion, despite an overall decline in worldwide IT spending, according Gartner forecasts.

• The Frame Group checks in with Melbourne Airport IT contract

  IT services firm, The Frame Group, has been awarded a three-year facilities management contract with Melbourne Airport.

• Tech spending to hit $76B

  Technology spending in Australia will reach $76 billion in 2014, an increase of 2.3 per cent over last year, according to Gartner’s latest quarterly forecast.
  

• BMC's MyIT May Be the Future of IT Services

  This week BMC Software unveiled MyIT, which wraps a friendly user interface over internal IT systems. The release capitalizes on the reason why BYOD is big: Today's consumer applications are easier to use than corporate apps. Other vendors should take notice of BMC, if they want to stay in business, CIO.com columnist Rob Enderle writes.

• Oakton 1H profit falls 5.5%

  Softening market conditions impacted Oakton's (ASX:OKN) revenue and profit for 1H12, but the IT and consulting services company appears back on track in the second half.

• UXC buys NZ Oracle JDE provider

  UXC Limited (ASX:UXC) has bought New Zealand's Jireh Consulting Services, an Oracle JD Edwards partner, and plans to merge the business with its Red Rock Consulting division.

• 10 worst sales tactics of IT outsourcing companies

  IT service providers are big on talk of innovation these days—except when it comes to their own sales practices. It seems as if many vendor sales teams have been pulling from the same bag of frustrating and ineffective tricks to try to win deals since the dawn of IT outsourcing.

• CSG loses appeal in Fuji Xerox case

  CSG (ASX:CSG) has lost its appeal against a court ruling that Fuji Xerox Australia had justifiably terminated a dealer agreement the companies had shared

• Empired extends $14m contract with Main Roads WA

  Perth-based IT services company, Empired (ASX: EPD), has extended its three-year $14 million infrastructure and project services contract with roading contractor, Main Roads Western Australia, for a further two years.

• Resource Development Group closes acquisition

  Resource Development Group (ASX:RDG) has closed the $4.5m purchase of electrical engineering and IT services firm Intellect Systems

• OpenWorld 2011: Infosys seeks high-value IT work

  Infosys chief S.D. Shibulal has signaled his intention to add more Australian customers to its books as the Indian outsourcing company moves into a period of expansion into higher-value consulting and systems integration work.

• Datamotion shrinks FY11 loss by 36%

  Data security company DataMotion (ASX:DMN) reduced its FY11 loss to $953k, as cost reduction efforts made up for an unsuccessful mining investment