Procurement reforms that capped tech contracts at $100 million broke the stranglehold of big conglomerates and large multinationals in Canberra and opened the door to smaller Australian companies securing more government work.
That’s the take of Michael North, the chief executive of Western Australian managed services provider Kinetic IT, which recently secured a $50 million deal with the Tax Office as part of its IT Strategic Sourcing Program.
Under the program, the agency is splitting three of its biggest technology contracts with DXC and Leidos into nine smaller, more module bundles in the biggest shakeup of its IT outsourcing in more than a decade.
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