By Eleanor Reader
Tender documents released this month reveal the Tasmanian Government may shift its whole-of-government HR and payroll system into the cloud.
The government has released a Request for Tender on a whole-of-government HR system feasibility study and roadmap development.
The government’s current HR and payroll infrastructure, used by almost all agencies and statutory authorities, has been in place for 17 years.
“The whole-of-government HR and Payroll infrastructure has evolved with eight different agencies and two statutory authorities using the same solution, but each implementing in different ways, even though they all operate under the same employment and industrial instruments. Therefore, savings and opportunities are not being realised,” the tender states.
The Tasmanian Government’s current multi-tenanted consortium model includes 10 payroll systems that calculate and pay nearly $1 billion each year for a total of 28,000 employees across 43 awards and agreements.
Independent consultants will be given the task of assessing the current system, developing a detailed cultural, economic, technology, system, operational, legal and schedule feasibility study and creating a detailed roadmap for the government’s HR/payroll infrastructure over the next decade.
According to the tender, the feasibility study should include the “consideration of a move to a more contemporary environment (Software as a Service or cloud environment) to deliver efficiencies”.
The tender evaluation is expected to be complete by late February 2013, with contracts signed in late March 2013.
The feasibility study and roadmap are due in late May 2013, with the presentation of findings and recommendations to be held in late June 2013.
As payroll consolidation projects have been known to be fraught with disaster for state governments – most recently with Queensland Health – the outcome of the feasibility study and proposed model will be watched closely.
If the Tasmanian Government did decide to go down the cloud route, SAP is one likely candidate to bid for the project, having secured a major cloud deal with the NSW Department of Trade and Investment last year.
SAP declined to comment on the tender.
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