Australia.gov.au and finance.gov.au will be among the first to migrate to the whole-of-government content management system, dubbed GovCMS.
These websites contain only unclassified public information and do not allow public registration or login access to websites, says the Department of Finance.
According to a newly released request for proposal documents, the solution “must be hosted on public cloud infrastructure ... which is shared and data can be located in different locations across the globe”.
GovCMS is an important service offering for government agencies and represents a “tangible implementation” of the Abbott government’s e-government and the digital economy policy, which aims to simplify IT and eliminate duplication.
“GovCMS is intended to support more effective web channel delivery functions within government,” the documents said.
Finance will adopt a pay-as-you-go subscription model which is part of the cloud computing DNA as opposed to the traditionally hefty upfront capital expenditure for such services.
GovCMS must be based on Drupal, a form of open-source software whose code can be modified by anyone.
The overall project is expected to cost significantly lower compared with more traditional means using proprietary solutions instead of open source.
The government is set to be a big player in the open source community and is urging departments and agencies to actively participate. The preferred supplier must allow “any Drupal module developed for use on GovCMS websites to be distributed to the open-source community”, the documents said.
“Finance intends to allow agencies to share code, modules and applications to reduce development costs and to allow the development and support of modules that suit the needs of agencies. GovCMS will require a facility to allow this collaboration to occur.”
The contract is expected to be awarded in August.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Fran Foo
Quelle/Source: The Australian, 10.06.2014
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