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DTA dishes out contracts worth millions

The Digital Transformation Agency has dished out a number of contracts to private companies worth millions of dollars, including for work on the redevelopment of myGov and a review...

Deloitte given further $5m for myGov work

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government has handed Deloitte a further $5 million to continue the redevelopment of myGov, with the multinational consulting giant now being paid nearly $40 million since early...

IBM bringing cloud services to regional Australia

Posted on   |  by Stuart Corner
Regional businesses are significant contributors to Australia’s economy but must contend with many challenges from which their metropolitan area counterparts are largely spared: fire, drought, flood and, most recently,...

myGov rebuild panel is finally made public

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government has finally revealed the private contractors working on the redevelopment of the myGov platform, with a panel of providers dominated by multinational technology firms building the...

IBM gets $19m for govt COVID vaccine platform

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The government has awarded IBM a two-year, $19 million contract to upgrade the backend of Australia’s immunisation records system to cope with COVID vaccination data. Services Australia manages the...

Govt ‘permissions capability’ project behind schedule

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government is still yet to choose which large US tech firm will be handed a significant contract to develop a “permissions capability” which will first handle visa...

Visa outsourcing is a very bad idea: CPSU

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The public sector union has urged the federal government to reconsider its latest attempt to outsource the development of a visa processing platform, labelling it another “rush to use...

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...

‘Misguided’: Vic govt ditches COVID platform

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The Victorian government made a “misguided and costly mistake” in buying a $4 million IBM platform as part of its effort to combat the COVID-19 second wave, appearing to...

Bank-backed FinTech platform Lygon is now live

Posted on   |  by David McClure
Backed by a consortium including ANZ Bank, Westpac, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, IBM and Scentre Group, Lygon is a new digital platform that uses distributed Ledger technology to transform...