Tag: Department of Finance

Failings trigger call to break up govt’s tech work

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Large government technology projects should be broken up into smaller bundles of work and delivered in an agile way with sustainment and upgrade funding factored in from the start,...

Canberra’s anti-GovERP uplift gets underway

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
A handful of federal agencies have begun drawing up plans to replace their enterprise resource planning systems in the wake of the government’s disastrous $340 million GovERP project. As...

Politics and cultural inertia stymie procurement reform

Posted on   |  by James Riley
There is surely no more challenging federal issue in need of urgent reform than tech procurement policy. It is the giant industry development policy lever sitting in plain sight,...

Govt loan untouched as PsiQuantum capital raise incomplete

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
US-based PsiQuantum is yet to meet the terms of its $275 million debt agreement with the federal government, preventing it from drawing down on the partially-interest free loan months...

PwC federal work ban extended until mid-2025

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Consulting giant PwC will be barred from bidding on new federal government work until at least mid-next year, extending a public service directive mutually agreed by the firm and...

APS agencies run with Microsoft Copilot after trial

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
An APS-wide trial of Microsoft Copilot might have wrapped up but it has not stopped federal government agencies from continuing to pay a premium to use the generative AI...

Govt flags ‘significant’ ICT spend in federal Budget

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
The Albanese government has flagged “significant” funding for several digital and ICT projects in next week’s federal Budget, even as its targets a historic back-to-back surplus. On Monday, Finance...