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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1996 Week 14 Hansard (12 December) . . Page.. 4952 ..

. Identification and prioritisation of critical systems, dates and processing periods;

. Assessment of the need to replace particular systems and/or facilities;

. Contact with vendors to establish their compliance program and associated costs;

. Include a standard clause in all future requests for tender and contracts requiring products and services to be YR2000 date compliant and include warranties.

. Departments will, by early 1997, have developed Compliance Plans outlining which systems and facilities are impacted by the date problem, how they will be made compliant and estimated costs to fix or replace problem systems.

. Departments will then develop detailed implementation plans which include timetables and resource plans.

The Information Management & Technology Policy Unit of InTACT is maintaining contact with the Federal Office of Government Information Technology (OGIT) and other States on their approach and progress of this matter.

(2)(a) It is expected that corrective action will involve a mixture of replacement, modification and vendor supplied upgrades to hardware and software.

An initial impact and cost assessment report for "in-house" developed and/or maintained software, on a Department basis, is being prepared for Government by late February, along with associated Department bids for the 1997/98 budget.

Determining the likely impact and associated costs of vendor supplied software (a substantial component of ACT Government software holdings) and the extent of exposure to faults and correction costs for "embedded systems" (ie. facilities such as lifts, alarms, locks, air-conditioning controls which have embedded micro-chips) will take much longer. It is expected that, detailed vendor responses on costs of modifications etc, will not be available until the latter part of 1997 as many vendors have not identified solutions or associated costs at this stage.

(2)(b) It is expected that modifications to systems and facilities will be largely undertaken by ACTPS staff, and vendors. Contractors/consultants will only be used where there are insufficient skills or a lack of in-house resources.

The CIT Year 2000 training program, a Government initiative between CIT and Unisys People, will be utilised to develop staff skills.

Members of the Year 2000 Date Project Working Party have all

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