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Fixed price GovCMS services

Salsa offers a variety of fixed price GovCMS service packages to provide cost and timeline certainty for customers when requirements and outcomes are simple, well-defined and predictable.

What is GovCMS?

GovCMS is a whole-of-government open source web content management system designed by government for government and hosted on the public cloud. It’s provided by the Federal Department of Finance to give agencies the tools to build, migrate and manage websites.

Why GovCMS?

GovCMS allows government agencies to focus their time and budget on delivering great content and digital services by taking away the common problems agencies face when managing their web presence. These problems include:

  1. Capacity: Limited resources to build, manage or secure websites.

  2. Capability: Limited staff with the necessary skills to build, manage or secure websites.

  3. Compliance: The need to comply with government standards around design, accessibility, privacy, security, sovereignty and information/records management.

Benefits of GovCMS

Some benefits GovCMS can provide to government agencies include:

  • Simplified and faster procurement of services with Department of Finance GovCMS procurement arrangements — access our services directly from the panel of qualified direct source providers

  • An easy-to-use content management system (CMS), with no need to know HTML coding to create and manage content

  • Security patching, support and 24/7 monitoring

  • Ongoing maintenance and testing

  • Built on Drupal open source software so you can reuse and adapt from an active and thriving global community

  • Responsive web design so your site can function and be easily viewed on a range of devices including tablets and smartphones

  • Best practice service design based on the Digital Transformation Agency’s (DTA’s) Australian Government Digital Service Standards

  • Compliance with the DTA’s Design System

Two GovCMS options to choose from

There are two GovCMS options to choose from:

  1. GovCMS SaaS: Software as a Service (SaaS) is a fully managed offering, removing the burden of managing your own software, licensing and infrastructure.

  2. GovCMS PaaS: Platform as a Service (PaaS) is a partially managed, infrastructure hosting only, offering in a dedicated cloud environment. PaaS gives agencies greater freedom to customise functionality however requires you to manage the Drupal application layer of your site(s).