Ernst & Young will be paid $3.3 million per month over the next year to continue its data and analytics work at the Australian Taxation Office, with the lucrative contract almost doubling in value to $85 million.
As questions over the rampant use consultants in government grow in the wake of the PwC tax leaks scandal, the tax office earlier this month awarded EY a 12-month extension worth $39.7 million to an existing contract.
Listed only as “provision of ICT professional services”, the contract relates to the ATO’s data and analytics program, which the ATO has previously said requires “in-depth experience in big data and cloud services”.
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