NEC has extended three contracts with the Northern Territory government covering network management, voice network management and server and desktop support.
According to an NEC representative, the contract extensions come on the back of a long relationship with the Northern Territory government by NEC, along with CSG, which NEC acquired last year in a $227.7 million deal.
The network management contract extension runs for an additional 12 months; the original contract was signed in 2010. It covers over 500 data communications links, along with associated routers, LAN, firewall and switching equipment, as well as mail and web front end systems.
The extended voice network management contract covers 20,000 endpoints at over 300 sites, and is supported from a local service desk in Darwin, along with NEC’s Global Operations Centre in Melbourne.
The final contract, for desktop and server support, is extended for 12 months from July 2013, and covers 16,000 desktops, and 400 servers across 300 sites in the Northern Territory, including remote locations.
The value of the three contract extensions was described as “multi-million dollar” however an exact figure was not disclosed.
In a previous interview, NEC’s director of IT business solutions, Antony Dutton, told CRN one of NEC’s key competitive advantages in the hotly contested ICT services space is its geographical reach.
“Not many people realise we have 1600 staff across Australia,” he said.
"The headcount in the Northern Territory is around 200 people, with 150 in South Australia and another 200 in Western Australia,” he said.
NEC claims to be the largest ICT employer in the Northern Territory, with over 240 local staff.
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