Digital assets agencies must use

Use of an SDA means that an agency is using a Core or Common SDA and not procuring or migrating to a duplicate solution. This may include partial adoption of an SDA or its components based on readiness and need, as agreed between SDA Owners and adopting agencies. When planning, designing, or procuring digital solutions, it is the responsibility of the project sponsor or business owner of the solution to ensure the use of Core or Common SDAs or to submit an exemption request when usage is not feasible or viable.

The requirement to use Core and Common SDA will be communicated via the IDLG, DTB, and published on digital.nsw.gov.au. Additional communications channels will be leveraged to maximise agency awareness of the SDA, such as circulars and blogs. If an agency has an existing digital solution that duplicates a Core SDA, they must contact the SDA owner and plan the logical point for migration that works for the agency or agree an exemption. The SDA owner must fund, as mutually agreed, part or all the SDA user agency's costs when the agency is mandated to transition onto or off an SDA within a defined period determined by the SDA owner. If the need to migrate is not driven by the SDA owner, the SDA user covers the cost to migrate to the Core SDA.