Tag: procurement

Senate to probe tech sector’s ‘sovereign capability’

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Parliament will investigate “sovereign capability in the Australian tech sector” over six months next year after David Pocock had the issue referred to the Senate’s finance committee on Wednesday....

Pressure on DTA, Industry to keep procurement promises

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The Australian National Audit Office will review the procurement reforms put in place at the Digital Transformation Agency, the Industry department and Home Affairs in response to damning audit...

Salesforce pricing leaked to Microsoft in first NDIS CRM tender

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Confidential Salesforce pricing information was accidentally leaked to Microsoft in a 2019 tender for the National Disability Insurance Scheme’s new customer relationship management system, documents reveal. The blunder forced...

Salesforce met with Robert ahead of $100m NDIA tender

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Salesforce held multiple meetings with former Government Services and NDIS minister Stuart Robert and Synergy 360, the controversial consulting firm linked to him in the lead up to a...

Govt puts Microsoft in AI ‘driver’s seat’ ahead of locals

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The Prime Minister’s announcement that he was handing Microsoft a government trial of its generative artificial intelligence just hours before consultations with local industry on the technology has triggered...

NSW govt tweaks procurement rules ahead of bigger changes

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The New South Wales government has raised the threshold for agencies to procure directly from smaller businesses as it seeks more fundamental changes to the current devolved procurement model...