Multinational businesses are gaming Commonwealth Procurement Rules to maintain their tendering advantage over small and medium- sized enterprises, according to Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman Bruce Billson....
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The agency responsible for the National Disability Insurance Scheme accepted Salesforce’s bid to deliver a new customer relationship management system knowing it would be “significantly” more expensive than Microsoft,...
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Legislation introduced to the Queensland Parliament on Thursday will establish a mandatory data breach notification scheme for the state’s government agencies, addressing recommendations made half a decade ago. If...
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PwC’s spin off company Scyne got the green light from Canberra on Thursday to continue its predecessor’s government work and take its spot on the lucrative management advisory panel....
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The cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme’s new Salesforce customer relationship management system has blown out by more than 100 per cent, documents obtained by InnovationAus.com reveal. The...
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Silicon Quantum Computing has landed a contract with the NSW government to design bespoke quantum hardware solutions that could be used to solve optimisation problems on Sydney’s complex public...
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Salesforce has been handed another $4 million for the customer relationship management system that will serve the National Disability Insurance Scheme from late October, bringing the cost of its...
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Startups and smaller tech firms wanting to break into the federal government market will have to wait another six months to do so after the Digital Transformation Agency pushed...
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KPMG has been accused of treating the Senate with contempt after a new document appeared to show the consulting firm had been ‘power mapping’ more than 70 public servants...
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Home Affairs secretary Michael Pezzullo was stood down on Monday pending the outcome of an investigation into the messages he sent a Liberal Party powerbroker. The messages reportedly sought...
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Investment NSW is set to lose as much as 25 per cent of its workforce in a major restructure that follows deep budget cuts at the Department of Enterprise,...
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The New South Wales government’s Digital Restart Fund is on track to run dry at the end of this financial year, after the Minns government chose not to top...
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A new government taskforce has been tasked with forging a set of guardrails for the use of artificial intelligence in the Australian Public Service, as the Albanese government seeks...
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A framework developed by the New South Wales government to guide the use of artificial intelligence by public servants could serve as the basis for a national framework now...