Fuji Xerox Document Management Solutions has won a $4.8m-a-year contract to print and manage test materials for Queensland school students.
The wide-ranging contract involves the printing, distribution, administration (including data capture), marking and reporting of results for the National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (Naplan) across the state.
FXDMS beat out one other competing applicant to the open tender, renewing a 15-year relationship with the Qld Curriculum and Assessment Authority (QCAA), which oversees testing in the state.
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Due to the sensitive, high security nature of the job, FXDMS must do the work in-house, rather than through its recently launched online print management service, and will only outsource the offset work as it has no offset capability.
About 30 per cent of the $4.8m budget is allocated to the printing, packing, distribution, and storage of both test materials and reports.
The rest will be spent on the digital processing of the information and providing two secure sites where hundreds of teachers will mark the standardised tests. Setting up and maintaining the facilities is expected to chew up a big portion of the contract.
FXDMS Qld general manager Rebecca Linton, who has been handling the QCAA account through multiple transitions since 1999 when HPA first won the tender before it was bought by Salmat, says the contract is a ‘strategic piece of business’ that spans the many types of work the company does.
“We won the tender because we have consistently delivered in the past and constantly innovate in how we get it done in consultation with the client,” she says.
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Linton says FXDMS has a similar contract to produce and manage Naplan materials in South Australia.
“We have a lot of big government contracts, they are a strong platform of work for us,” she says.
The initial contract runs until March 2016 and can be renewed for up to two years in one-year blocks if FXDMS meets set deliverables.
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