The NZ Treasury has put IBM's contract to build the National Infrastructure Platform (NIP) for the 20 district health boards on high alert, with the project currently in a “rest phase” due to the service not being ready for deployment and the parties still to decide whether there is a viable way forward for the program.

Citing the “non-performance of the vendor” as a reason for putting an amber-red delivery confidence assessment on the project, the Treasury's major projects performance report (MPPR) for July, released this week, warns that successful delivery of the project requires urgent action and that the delay may have a flow-on effect on the $65 million National Oracle Solution (NOS), which is due to begin its roll-out to the DHBs early next year.