Leidos unseats Datacom for monster health dept tech deal


Joseph Brookes
Senior Reporter

American tech services giant Leidos has claimed the key component in the federal Health department’s prized outsourcing deal with a $91 million three year contract, ending Datacom’s 12-year run worth nearly $1 billion.

The outsourcing arrangement had only been held this century by either Datacom or IBM, and covers one of Canberra’s largest and most complex tech environments.

The Department of Health, Disability and Ageing carved out the enterprise computing …

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