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31280 Strategic IT Project

Case Study – Autumn 2021 FURTHER DETAILS / INFORMATION

A High Level Design for the OZ Plus Project

Date: Autumn 2021

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Background:

OZ Plus is a health care organisation. The main objective of this organisation is to provide quality and compassionate healthcare to the most vulnerable people in the society. They offer multiple services such as developing and managing hospitals, residential aged cares, home care, private home support, disability support etc.

With an approval from the local council and health district, the organisation is looking to build a new private hospital at 5 acres of land in Blue Mountains, almost square in shape.

A preliminary requirements have been finalised to this date and are listed as below:

• 200 beds hospital to cater neighbouring growing suburbs.
• The hospital will have the latest technologies to communicate with doctors, nurses and other hospital staff.
• Up to 5 wards for patients for specified treatments.
• A number of labs such as pathology and radiology labs will be in the right location of the hospital.
• 2 car parks at the opposite ends of the property.
• Green park with trees will cover up to half acre of the total land.
• Children’s park for hospital residents and visitors.
• A couple of cafes and convenience stores within the compound.

The “OZ +” is calling for proposals for the design, development, implementation and management of a solution to be introduced in to the new hospital development.

SITP Inc (Your Parent Organization):

SITP Inc is a multi-billion dollar organisation located in Melbourne. Its primary focus is to continually expand by investing in numerous ventures globally, and as such constantly has many projects in the pipeline and in production.

Its’ policy is to create a local based project team for each venture, which, if the tender / project bid is successful, would then potentially be turned into a local subsidiary company established in the country of the project. SITP Inc however, will always maintain a controlling interest in the subsidiary company (if established) and operate somewhat as a silent partner.

The OZ + project is one such project being examined by SITP Inc. This project, if successful, could develop into a profitable project for SITP Inc, which could be duplicated into other similar projects

Once the OZ + project has been accepted, a subsidiary company will be established in Sydney specifically for this project. A location for the subsidiary company has already been identified as outlined below.

The identified Sydney offices for the project are located at 1 Broadway (UTS). Office space is unlimited and office furniture (desks, chairs, etc) are provided. In general, all non IT components are out of scope – e.g., desks chairs, etc. However, any components that are required as part of or specific to your solution are in scope – e.g., mobile devices, BYOD, etc.

For economies of scale and security reasons, the SITP’s server farm is located at Melbourne. The Melbourne server farm is of sufficient capacity to manage your solution and, as such, with the exception of hardware and components specific to your proposed solution, general hardware (servers, etc.) may deem to be exiting. Similarly it may also be assumed that the existing SITP Inc network is sufficient to support your proposed solution.

While the server farm is located in Melbourne, the project will be fully managed and run out of the Sydney offices.

While your proposal does not need to address general hardware or the network for the entire environment, you will be required to specify and justify the selection of all components of your solution and solution specific hardware. All proposal specific components (hardware, software, etc.) must be reflected in your costing of the solution.

Your team may assume that there is sufficient power, lighting and general telephone communications to satisfy the project’s requirements; both in Melbourne and Sydney and as such, these can be considered to be out of scope.

The costs associated with the utilities (gas, electricity, water, etc.) for this solution will be absorbed into the general running costs of the Sydney office and do not need to be considered when costing the proposal. All other costs related to the proposed solution, including “solution based” staff must be included in your costs.