Defence is still examining the “paper trail” of potential conflicts in its $515 million defence data project after its own data lead left in 2019 to join KPMG, the consulting giant that helped design the project before its subsidiary won the main delivery contract.
The project, currently known as One Defence Data, is exposing the risks of consultancies’ ‘above the line’ work designing, developing and managing government tech projects and the ‘below the line’ work of delivery often done by the same company, its subsidiaries and their tech giant partners.
The Defence department’s chief information officer on Wednesday declared new policies mean there will be no way for suppliers providing above the line work to then bid for below the line work in new projects he oversees, but could give few assurances about the troubled One Defence Data project.
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