Reserve Bank of Australia to consolidate software resellers

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is seeking a strategic software reseller arrangement with up to two resellers to consolidate software licenses and technologies.

The RBA wants to address its complex supplier landscape spanning multiple contracts, which has resulted from buying software licences on an ad hoc basis, it stated in its notice inviting expressions of interest.

It wants economies of scale for “competitive reseller margin” with a consolidated portfolio and long-term contract, a scalable and efficient model for procuring software licenses. It also wants to understand upcoming changes to OEM licensing models and the impact they will have on the Bank.

It may also consider seeking support that will maintain or improve levels of support.

The RBA intends to enter into a maximum seven-year agreement with the successful resellers.

The software in scope includes a range of infrastructure, data and “business facing technologies”, with the majority “requiring support via the OEM”.

This includes Redhat Linux licensing, Atlassian JIRA & Confluence Cloud, Zscaler, Palo Alto Prisma Cloud, Citrix Virtual Appliances, Tenable.io Security Centre & Vulnerability Management (Cloud), Billable nodes for Elastic Subscription, and Venafi Core Platform:On-premise and SaaS based solutions.

Resellers will also need to supply Adobe subscriptions (all apps, Pro DC), Archer Platform, Noggin (Core & Crisis Management Module), Hashicorp Terraform Cloud licenses, and Anomali ThreatStream Enterprise SaaS licenses.

Resellers must be able to provide reselling services in Australia for six or more out of these products.

The RBA has co-termed several contracts across product lines to create what it described as a “natural entry point for a consolidated software reseller agreement”.