Services Australia is spending $19 million on new specialist ICT services.

One of the Federal Government’s largest departments has awarded $19 million in contracts to Dialog, SYPAQ Systems and Projects Assured for work on various government initiatives.

Much of the money is being spent on mainframe software development services, including $4.9 million for IT services provider Dialog Information Technology and nearly $4.7 million for engineering and systems integration company SYPAQ Systems.

Dialog was also picked up for a separate project in a contract valued at just over $3.1 million.

Services Australia has also spent $6.3 million to have management consulting firm Projects Assured for project management office support services.

A Services Australia spokesperson says the deployment of each of the four contracts should take up to 12 months and expire by 30 June 2021.

Services Australia has put out funds for a number of digital projects over the last few months, including over $50 million awarded to NTT Australia for a bundle of new hardware, licensing and services deals.

The biggest of those contracts was $17.2 million for the purchase of x86 commodity server hardware for the agency’s OpenStack private cloud server platform.