Tag: procurement

Let’s formalise a ‘Made in Australia’ Office

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Australian companies might be concerned about an increasingly protectionist United States and the spectre of a newly issued Made in America presidential executive order, but the Australian Government is...

A Marketplace milestone that is without meaning

Posted on   |  by James Riley
It is important to mark milestones and to celebrate successes. This is how most of us maintain forward momentum in important work. But when the ‘success’ is so lame...

Our SME policy obsession is not working for us

Posted on   |  by James Riley
It might be time for a rethink of Australia’s obsessive focus on small and medium-sized (SME) tech companies in relation to government procurement. The focus should be on Australian...

Local tech misses out on federal opportunities

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Digital Transformation Agency has signed its seventh whole-of-government purchasing agreement with a foreign-headquartered tech giant – this time it is with Oracle – with the expressed aim to...

DTA Marketplace did not follow rules: Audit

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The Digital Transformation Agency did not follow procurement rules when establishing its Digital Marketplace and the processes behind it are “still not robust”, according to the national audit office....

NSW moves on tech sector sovereign capability

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The NSW government has unveiled a tech procurement taskforce aimed at building sovereign capability and the transfer of skills and capability into the state’s public service delivery programs Having last...

NSW sets new tech procurement terms

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The NSW Government is expected to introduce minimum participation levels for local companies in large-scale public sector technology projects to ensure it gets maximum impact from its $1.6 billion...

The curious case of AWS and gov’t

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The whole of government sourcing arrangement signed between the Digital Transformation Agency and the global cloud giant Amazon Web Services raises serious questions about sovereignty in relation to the...

AWS gets the red carpet treatment

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Australian Government rolled out a red carpet this week for hyper-scale cloud platform provider Amazon Web Services, helpfully launching a standardised whole-of-government agreement to make it easier to...