‘Sunk costs’: Parliament’s SAP build now too complex, costly to change


Joseph Brookes
Senior Reporter

The cost of Parliament’s delayed expense management software project has blown out to $72.6 million, and will need another $4 million annually to operate, with officials on Tuesday saying it is now too expensive to change from SAP to a local alternative.

Finance department officials in charge of the project downplayed the costs, however, and the use of the German multinational over local suppliers, saying the complexity of the system …

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