The Digital Victoria Marketplace is scheduled to launch in 2019. Platform trials are complete, and the government is preparing to start looking for a vendor to operate, maintain, and improve the platform.
The marketplace’s plans, which will be used to specifically encourage small-to-medium firms (SMEs) to submit bids for government IT work, were made public earlier this year.
A call for proposals “to source a vendor responsible for operating, maintaining and enhancing a new Digital Victoria Marketplace” will be released at noon on Tuesday, according to minister of government services Danny Pearson.
The state’s less than two-year-old digital unit, Digital Victoria, is in charge of the marketplace programme.
In the Victorian public service (VPS), according to Pearson, Digital Victoria has “set a cracking pace,” with a number of strategies and a mandate to “play more of a coordinating and over-arching role across the VPS.”
The Minister said that he had given diversity of input into the development of digital products and algorithms considerable attention.
Although his comments suggested they may be in the works, he refused to be drawn on whether Digital Victoria’s coordination function will see it set up whole-of-government digital platforms.
I don’t have any updates to share on that today, but I’m extremely aware of the need to make sure we continue to work more broadly across government on those points,” he said.
