In a statement the ATO said , and Lockheed Martin have beaten EDS and Kaz (now Fujitsu) in its hunt for service providers in the EUC tender. The winner is expected to be announced in June 2010 after due diligence and negotiations are completed.

The EUC contracts include the "provision and support of desktop computers and office equipment, infrastructure support and the provision of a single point of contact for IT service management".

will continue to provide business as usual EUC services until the winning bidder takes over. In October it was announced EDS would roll out 25,000 new desktops for the ATO.

Also in October, the and mostly responsible for the office's budget overspend last financial year.

The change program aims to migrate the agency away from legacy and paper-based systems to a single, integrated core IT system. It commenced in December 2004 at an estimated cost of $350-450 million and was set to be completed by the end of 2007.