Major tech suppliers to the federal government face scrutiny over their gifting practices after officials at the National Disability Insurance Agency secretly accepted thousands of dollars’ worth of gifts...
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National Disability Insurance Agency officials accepted thousands of dollars’ worth of previously undisclosed gifts from Salesforce, including during the customer relationship management system tender that the US software giant...
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Accenture was awarded two closed tenders worth hundreds of millions of dollars for work on My Health Record while it was locked in a three year dispute with the...
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The process behind the awarding of lucrative contracts worth nearly $750 million to Accenture for the operation of My Health Record was “deficient” and plagued by poor planning and...
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An overhaul of the government technology behind exports from Australia’s $85 billion agriculture sector is in jeopardy after poor planning, slow implementation and resource constraints throttled the project, according to an...
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Services Australia is switching its monster contact centre services contract to Optus after more than a decade with Telstra, with the smaller rival inking a new $578 million deal...
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The national corruption watchdog will not pursue the six public officials who were referred to it last year by the Royal Commission into the Robodebt scheme after finding it...
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Decades old legacy technologies are creating concerns across the federal government, with tech heavy Services Australia conducting a sweep of their own aging systems and the Digital Transformation Agency...
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The federal government’s new in-house consulting unit is focusing on small projects and dodging work with the Defence department to avoid the pitfalls of its overseas counterparts, as it...
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Large consulting firms have won Commonwealth contracts worth $1.13 billion so far this year as the Labor government strives to reduce reliance on the multinationals. At a Senate Estimates...
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The head of the Bureau of Meteorology was challenged by senators on Wednesday after not answering a series of questions about suspected cost blow outs in its technology projects...
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Parliament’s expense software upgrade will need another two years to deliver core functionalities and enhancements, as outside auditors encounter the project’s complexities that have resulted in cost blowouts and...
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Australia’s national privacy office will lose more than $11 million in the next financial year as it faces a funding cliff and a backlog of investigations and freedom of...
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Corporate Commonwealth entities like the National Disability Insurance Agency will soon face the same procurement rules that apply to non-corporates after the Albanese government agreed to further tighten buying...