Tag: Boston Consulting Group

COVIDSafe costs up to $300k per month to run

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
COVIDSafe is costing up to $300,000 per month to continue running, with the federal government’s controversial contact tracing app not picking up any new close contacts anywhere in the...

Floodgates open for consultants in pandemic year

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Multinational management consulting firms have enjoyed an extraordinarily good year in Canberra. Federal government spending on advice and services from the global outfits soared by hundreds of millions of...

BCG and McKinsey govt contracts double in 2020

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The dollar value in government contracts awarded to Boston Consulting Group and McKinsey doubled in 2020, with both large US management consultant firms enjoying a sharp increase in federal...

Three tech giants shortlisted for visa platform job

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Three US tech giants have been shortlisted by the government to have another go at developing its new “permissions capability” platform to handle visa processing, after a botched first...

BCG gets $11.5m for Vic digital contact tracing

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Boston Consulting Group was paid more than $11 million over three months to digitise the Victorian government’s paper-based COVID-19 contact tracing system late last year and implement Salesforce’s customer...

Local developer gets a COVIDSafe pay rise

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Local technology firm Shine Solutions has been given a $350,000 pay rise from the federal government for its ongoing work on COVIDSafe, bringing the total amount spent on contractors...

‘Cancelled’ ANU academic goes on the record

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The lecturer at the centre of the ANU academic freedom controversy has spoken out, saying she was surprised and “disappointed” she was removed as moderator of a panel discussion...

Govt readies for another go at visa processing

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government is getting ready to have another go at building a digital platform to handle visa processing, after its last a failed attempt to outsource these functions...

Another $2m spent on COVIDSafe app

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The amount of government money provided to outside companies for development and maintenance work on the COVIDSafe contact tracing app has nearly doubled to $5 million, with new contracts...