Industry
Local government
Councils buy under procurement rules, against compliance obligations, with an internal audit function that reviews the result afterwards. Onel has delivered infrastructure inside those constraints for twenty-one councils across metropolitan and regional Victoria since 2012.
Clients
21 named
Bayside City Council · Knox City Council
Written up
3 case studies
Named clients, real numbers
Panel member
MAV · DPC
+ Procure Australasia
Who you get
A principal consultant
Never a salesperson
Clients in this sector
- Bayside City Council
- Knox City Council
- Nillumbik Shire
- Manningham City Council
- Monash City Council
- Yarra Ranges Council
- Frankston City Council
- Glen Eira City Council
- City of Boroondara
- City of Casey
- City of Port Phillip
- City of Ballarat
- Baw Baw Shire Council
- Latrobe City Council
- Mornington Peninsula Shire
- Mildura Rural City Council
- Moyne Shire Council
- Whitehorse City Council
- Maribyrnong City Council
- City of Greater Dandenong
- Hobart City Council
What we hear
The problems that bring local government to us.
Not a list of what we sell. These are the conversations that actually start an engagement, in the words the people having them use.
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Hardware past end of support, and an audit that has noticed
Switches and servers that stopped receiving firmware fixes years ago. It is a security finding before it is a reliability problem, and internal audit tends to find it first.
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Disaster recovery that cannot meet the council's own obligations
A DR position that exists on paper and has never been tested end to end. Bayside's auditors reviewed the replacement and called it sector leading.
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A small team spending its week in the car
Multiple sites, no central visibility, and fixes that require someone to physically attend. Nillumbik's team covered 432 square kilometres that way.
How we address it
What that looks like in practice.
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Essential Eight uplift and assessment
ASD-aligned uplift against the maturity model, with the assessment evidence your auditors will ask for.
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Disaster recovery you have actually tested
Replication, failover automation and documented recovery objectives - then a real test, not a tabletop.
Data Centre Solutions
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Networks you can manage remotely
Central visibility across every site, access control that checks the device, and AI monitoring that flags problems before residents notice.
Network Services
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Procurement you do not have to run
Pre-qualified on MAV, DPC and Procure Australasia, so engaging us does not need a fresh tender.
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Platforms that scale without a forklift
Compute and storage that grow independently, so the next expansion buys only what is needed.
Managed Private Cloud
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A principal who stays on the account
The engineer who scoped your environment runs it afterwards. No handoff to a delivery team you have not met.
The work
What we have delivered in local government.
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Knox City Council
Onel has worked with Knox City Council's IT team across successive infrastructure projects. The council's team explains the work in their own words.
Read the case study
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Nillumbik Shire Council
Network modernisation on HPE Aruba, replacing equipment that had reached the end of its supported life.
Read the case study
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Bayside City Council
A full infrastructure refresh for a council running services the community expects to be available every day.
Read the case study
“Onel worked with us at a strategic and operational level. They provided guidance on trends in technology that helped to shape our thinking to come up with the right solution.”
Procurement
Already approved on the panels you buy through.
Onel holds current membership of the MAV, DPC and Procure Australasia panels. Tell us which one your procurement team uses and we will send the reference details.
MAV · DPC · Procure Australasia
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