SharePoint is going to work in the business of catching crooks in Australia via a new extranet being commissioned by CrimTrac, the Commonwealth body devoted to improved information sharing between federal and state police and law enforcement agencies.

CrimTrac was established in the year 2000 and the current portal website hosts roughly 12,000 shared documents and provides authorised users access to various Agency applications, along with access to the test and training environments for such applications.

According to CrimTrac, the supporting technologies including the portal administration product, is no longer supported; and the end of support has also been announced for the underlying security product.

"The agency wishes to replace the portal administration product with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, a product already utilised within the agency."

"MOSS is to manage the shared documents (likely to reduce to 3,000 documents following a content review) and there will be no change to the security product protecting the Agency applications. An updated user interface design is also expected to be applied.

"The purpose of this secure extranet project is to provide an improved solution to the Agency‟s current Portal. Continuing to supply an entry point for all current and future Agency online applications and also supporting the secure sharing of documents between authorised policing and law enforcement agencies in real time.

"This solution will replace the current administration product with MOSS 2007, provide the opportunity to refresh the content, improve collaborative services provided using the MOSS tool set, and the capability to integrate with a range of Microsoft and non-Microsoft technologies.

"The SharePoint implementation will allow various business groups and project teams to publish and share content with relevant stakeholders from external agencies."

The closing date for tender responses is 19 February 2010, and the web site is required to be completed and available for the agency to conduct user acceptance testing by the 16 August 2010.