Telstra Network Integrity & Facilities Maintenance Contract
Silcar provides national telepower operation and maintenance and facilities management and maintenance services to Telstra’s portfolio of network sites.
This maintenance and operations capability includes supporting Telstra buildings, telephone exchanges, satellite tracking stations, mobile base stations, and remote telecommunications equipment.
Delivering a sophisticated servicing and fault provisioning service to metropolitan, regional and remote sites, 24 hours per day, seven days a week throughout the year, Silcar’s capabilities include:
Facilities management and servicing such as heating ventilation and air conditioning;
Emergency response, breakdown and preventative maintenance;
Corrective action to support the telecommunications power systems (AC, DC and solar equipment);
Building and plant mechanical services;
Network monitoring and management
Servicing AC electrical systems;
Emergency power generation supply;
Provision of an uninterrupted power system/supply;
Control systems including security;
Safety systems such as fire, smoke, gas detection and monitoring;
Emergency planning and contingency management;
Lifecycle planning and management;
Earthing;
Energy management, climate control and backup systems.
Silcar has a proven track record in delivering reliable performance and value with critical infrastructure assets for Telstra through:
All key asset management decisions supported by a thorough risk management process framework
Causes of failures in equipment performance and what must be done to prevent such failures is understood
Improved quality data, collecting the right data across all critical infrastructure assets
Sophisticated enterprise grade reliability analysis tools to handle large volumes of data
Informed elimination of activities and costs that are not required
Access to an engaged, responsible and empowered technical national workforce that has ten years working on Telstra’s network infrastructure facilities
The opportunity to be more innovative and strive for new benchmarks.

