The competition regulator is using a limited tender to build a critical platform behind the government’s digital ID scheme, inviting only a handful of companies and refusing to say if any local suppliers have been approached.
The lack of competition has again frustrated Australian companies that won’t get the chance to bid on what looms as a critical piece of infrastructure for an ID scheme that has already cost more than $600 million over half a decade of development.
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