Tag: Global Digital Platform

Parliament to probe botched visa platform procurements

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Home Affairs officials, consultants and technology suppliers will be asked to explain a failed visa privatisation attempt, its abandoned replacement and their controversial procurements to Parliament’s powerful audit committee....

BCG consultants’ massive visa fail win

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
More than $90 million was spent by government on its failed plan to privatise the visa processing system, but the Boston Consulting Group still came up trumps, landing nearly...

Visa outsource plan ‘dead in the water’

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government’s $1 billion plan to outsource the visa processing system is now “dead in the water” after revelations it will require new legislation, according to the Opposition....

Visa tender has cost $80m ‘so far’

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government had “utterly failed” to justify its decision to outsource the visa tech processing system, a project which has cost $80 million even before a winning bidder...