Trust for Nature is one of Australia’s oldest conservation organisations, and works closely with private landholders, government, organisations, Traditional Owners and businesses to help restore, protect and manage biodiversity on private land.

With staff and offices across Victoria, Trust for Nature uses a variety of methods to achieve its conservation goals, including a conservation covenant – a voluntary, legal agreement made between a private landholder and Trust for Nature that protects the land forever. Trust for Nature also owns more than 40 conservation properties across Victoria.

Trust for Nature has over 70 staff, located in offices in Melbourne and in regional Victoria, with a mix of field work, office-based work and work from home.  As well as a dispersed workforce, ongoing challenges include poor and intermittent internet access for regional teams.

A range of data types (including relational, financial, ecological, property, spatial) are managed through the following platforms and applications:

• Salesforce
• Technology 1
• Office 365 and Sharepoint
• ESRI / ArcGIS
• Trust for Nature website
• On premise servers (migration to Cloud in progress)

To ensure its enterprise architecture aligns and optimises business processes, ICT and business strategy, Trust for Nature is requesting an architecture review with a primary focus on:

• Advice on best practice and examples of user cases and proven success
• Options and recommendations on applications integration and data integration
• Ensuring Trust for Nature’s ICT architecture is scalable, secure, reliable, and maintainable

 

The review may include:

• Assessment of the current state application architecture, and application program of work
• Assessment of current ICT capability and scalability, and ability to support current and future business needs, including field data collection
• Identification of options for applications and data integration
• Identification of potential points of failure
• Considerations for network speed, latency, and overall responsiveness to user demands

Proposals will be considered as they are received, with the aim of the review being completed by 30 November 2024.

Send your proposal, inclusive of methodology, project team, scheduling and fees, to:

Andrew Foran
Chief Operating Officer
Trust for Nature
andrewf@tfn.org.au
Phone: (03) 8631 5888 | Freecall: 1800 99 99 33
Level 5, 379 Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000