About GovTEAMS OFFICIAL

GovTEAMS OFFICIAL is a digital collaboration service built for government. It brings together all the tools you need in one place to connect, share and work together across organisations. It is powered by Microsoft Office 365 tools.

Your online workspace

  • Access all the tools you need in one place
  • Create communities and bring your team together
  • Promote activities, build a network or start a project

GovTEAMS OFFICIAL is built around the concept of community. It gives you the choice of how much information you want to share with open, private or hidden community types.

Get your team on-board by inviting them into your community to collaborate and share ideas!

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Tools to make your job easier 

Now you can stay productive from wherever you are located. Office 365 mobile apps give you the flexibility to work and stay connected from anywhere. Access the tools you know, like Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint to edit files for your team to see at any time. 

Work and collaborate across government and beyond! Start a chat, meet and co-author files with Microsoft Teams. Use SharePoint to post news and publish updates.

Trusted and secure
Classified to OFFICIAL:Sensitive, GovTEAMS is designed with multiple layers of protection supporting secure collaboration across government. Hosted on Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 and independently IRAP assessed, the service has an Authority to Operate by the Department of Finance at the OFFICIAL:Sensitive level.

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is mandatory for all users, providing an additional layer of protection for accounts and information. Access your work securely from desktop, web and mobile.

Your personal profile

  • Discover communities based on your information
  • Promote your skills and help employers find you
  • Connect with like-minded people and grow your network

Your profile will promote your skills across government and will stay with you. Best of all, the information in your profile will connect you with communities of interest. It will allow you to discover like-minded people, who understand your work. 

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Features designed to help you

Designed to be secure and easy to use, GovTEAMS OFFICIAL features:

  • Quick community creation (in less than an hour) – bring teams together online, from across disparate locations.
  • Online meeting (large or small, audio and video) – perfect for times when physically meeting in groups isn’t possible or desirable.
  • Real time document collaboration – work on documents together in real time, while separated by distance.
  • Access to commonly used Microsoft Office 365 tools online (Words, Excel and PowerPoint). Office 365 desktop and mobile apps give you the flexibility to work and stay connected from anywhere
What are the roles?

Your role determines your access and responsibilities within a particular community.

  • Owners create and maintain GovTEAMS OFFICIAL communities. They can invite or remove members, set community permissions and moderate content. Only full access members can become owners of a community.
  • Members participate in GovTEAMS OFFICIAL communities. Depending on the permissions set by community owners, members can post in a channel, edit documents and join an online meeting. Full access members or guests can participate as members of a community.

Account types

Your account type determines the access you have to the GovTEAMS OFFICIAL service:

  • Full access member accounts provide eligible APS employees and contractors with full access to the GovTEAMS OFFICIAL service, including its available Microsoft 365 apps and collaboration tools. Members can discover communities, people and information, and create and manage communities.
  • Partner accounts provide eligible external stakeholders with access to the GovTEAMS OFFICIAL service through a paid Partner membership. Partners can use the apps, collaboration tools and features available under their membership to work with government.*
  • Guest accounts provide external stakeholders with limited access to the GovTEAMS OFFICIAL service, allowing them to collaborate in the communities to which they have been invited.

*If you’re a contractor with an Australian Public Service email address you can also register as a full access member.

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Testimonial

"GovTEAMS enables us to bring together government procurement officials on a platform which promotes collaboration and knowledge sharing. Establishing and maintaining the community is easy and allows our members to make connections with other entities, share templates and tools and stay up to date with policy and guidance."

Kieran — GovTEAMS Procurement and Contract Management Community of Practice