Data#3 and Dimension Data have been awarded a $50 million contract with Fiona Stanley Hospital in Western Australia to build the new hospital’s IT infrastructure.
Both integrators won the tender via services company Serco, which was contracted by the hospital.
Data#3 will provide Cisco network infrastructure and services while DiData will take care of enterprise computing, storage and backup.
The deal marks stage one of an end-to-end wireless service which will eventually connect the entire hospital campus. Installation of the ICT hardware will commence in November. The new hospital is expected to open in 2014.
Data#3 declined to reveal what its share of the $50 million deal was worth. It said its portion of the project would be completed by mid next year.
The company recently more than doubled its Perth workforce to 40 and said it would bring on additional staff to manage the new contract.
“[The contract] enables us to provide a foundation for more growth in WA, and that’s strategically important for us,” Data#3’s Laurence Baynham told CRN. “It’s the largest infrastructure project we’ve undertaken.”
DiData did not respond to request for comment by the time of publication.
The company opened its Perth office in 2008 and became a major Cisco partner this year when it signed up with the networking vendor’s Intelligent Automation for Cloud (CIAC) solution - one of the first local partners to do so.
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