Tag: Accenture

BoM’s $886m consultant ‘gravy train’ wraps up

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The bill for the Bureau of Meteorology’s seven-year tech overhaul is $866 million and there are fears it could rise further, despite the agency’s CEO declaring the project complete...

Digital passenger cards to expand beyond Qantas, air travel

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
A long-sought digital traveller declaration system being trialled by Qantas and the Australian Border Force will be expanded to other airlines and cruise ships under an iterative, user focused...

Sky-high IT contractor costs at weather bureau

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Australia’s national weather agency forked out more than $400 million on external contractors for its long-running IT upgrade – the full cost of which has never publicly been revealed....

Accenture hits $2.5b in tax office tech work

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The tax office will pay Accenture $45 million a year to manage its enterprise operations, app development, infrastructure and DevOps, pushing the tech services giant’s total work for the...

Sprawling tech projects trigger contract management probe

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Parliament’s powerful audit committee will probe how agencies manage contracts after damning audits – including investigations of two Accenture technology projects – revealed serious capability and probity gaps. The...

Call for sovereign AI fund to attract investment

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Australia is being urged to follow Canada’s lead and create a sovereign fund to stimulate private investment in domestic AI capabilities, with one of the world’s largest consulting firms...

Accenture’s newest govt tech gig grows to $70m

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Accenture will be responsible for another key components of the Agriculture department’s mammoth technology upgrade after nabbing its compute and storage deal, worth more than $30 million. With the...