Managed Operating Environment [MOE] Business Case Project

The Managed Operating Environment [MOE] Business Case project was approved by Cabinet to produce a Business Case underpinned by an Evaluation Model that identifies the best value-for-money managed operating environment, or mix of operating environments, for the Government’s future desktop and server computing needs. The Business Case will serve to inform procurement arrangements that will be required in 2008-09, when some current licensing and software support arrangements will expire.

The objectives of the Business Case are to:

• Quantify the operational, financial and other impacts of various operating environments on users, individual agencies and the Government as a whole
• Quantify the total cost of ownership for each operating environment examined in the MOE Trial(s), including training, deployment, transition and other costs
• Determine the most appropriate mechanisms to reduce the variability and complexity of Government computing environments leading to improvements the overall productivity of the public service
• Improve Government's software licensing negotiating position by generating competitive tension where there is currently little or none, and
• Recommend to Cabinet a procurement approach, if required, to implement the Managed Operating Environment or Environments from 2008.