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Accenture hits $2.5b in tax office tech work

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...

Govt spends $1.13bn on consultants so far this year

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
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...

BoM technology projects hit by an Estimates whirlwind

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
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...

Defence Secret cloud race narrows as Accenture deal hits $50m

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Accenture has landed another a $14.7 million contract for work on Defence’s enterprise cloud services capability, while the department continues talks with shortlisted hyperscalers Google and Oracle on a...