Contained within Australia’s annual domestic business-oriented ICT spend in 2007-08 of $163 Billion, the local, state and federal public sector represented 11% or $18.45 Billion. On this basis the public sector is a considerable contributor to the Australian ICT economy. It is traditionally well serviced by the vendor community but less so by ICT research. In a 2006 study Longhaus calculated the annual investment by the top 100 vendors in procuring primary data research on the public sector at approximately $13 million, or roughly $130,000 per vendor excluding the traditional annual advisory services offered by the likes of ourselves, Gartner, Forrester, IDC and others. Unfortunately the way government ICT spending information has been reported up until now has been extremely limited in scope covering only half of total ICT activity. Therefore companies seeking ICT data on the public sector have been forced to purchase data by state, agency, and line of service (based on project, vendor, or solution) and assumed that what they were paying for was accurate. In fact in terms of statistical reporting it has only ever represented a sample of spend, but even then, in all likelihood representing less than 50% of the true story.