APS procurement ‘deficit’ prompts call for formal career track


A government-led parliamentary committee has called for the Department of Finance to expedite the creation of a procurement profession within the Australian Public Service to address the “significant capability deficit” among public officials.

The finding is contained in the final report from an inquiry into procurement culture in Canberra and follows a series of damning audits that exposed a failure by federal government agencies, including the Digital Transformation Agency, …

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