The contracts were awarded by the Western Australian public health system to Deloitte Australia and SAP Australia
WA Health awards contracts to Deloitte and SAP for its new HR management information system. (Credit: Nappiness from Pixabay)
WA Health, the public health system of Western Australia, has awarded two contracts worth around A$220m ($156m) to implement a new human resource management information system (HRMIS).
One of the contracts is estimated at A$166.5m ($118.13m) and has been awarded to Deloitte Australia. The other contract valued at A$53.3m ($37.82m) has been awarded to SAP Australia.
According to WA Health, the new HR management information system will help the organisation process the pay, rosters, and leave entitlements of more than 54,000 of its employees.
The new system will also bring all the WA health system entities into a single integrated HR, payroll and rostering platform, which is expected to be easier, more accurate, as well as reliable.
Under its contract, Deloitte Australia will be responsible for designing, developing, testing, and deployment of the HR management information system by June 2025. The company will also provide application support services for a period of up to 20 years.
With SAP Australia, WA Health has signed a licensing agreement for a 10-year subscription to contemporary HR, payroll, and rostering software.
WA Health stated: “The HRMIS will reduce manual processes and paper-based HR forms, as well as provide all WA health system employees with a better digital user experience. This will enable WA health system employees to easily access information about their pay, leave and shifts securely on their own devices at any time.
“Having a contemporary, systemwide HRMIS will have significant benefits for the WA health system and will deliver a key recommendation of the 2019 Sustainable Health Review to improve workforce planning, compliance and reporting capability.”
The contracts were awarded to the two firms after the completion of an open tender and evaluation process overseen by Health Support Services (HSS), which is the WA health system’s shared services centre.
The evaluation involved a proof of concept process which tested the capabilities of the proposed solution to determine if it could meet the needs of the WA health system’s huge workforce located across metropolitan and regional WA.
WA Health said that the development and implementation of the new system, which will be led by HSS, will now begin and is slated to be completed by June 2025.
The funding needed for the implementation and delivery of the new HR system was announced in the Western Australian government’s Mid-year Review last December.