Commercialisation advisers tender abandoned after rules breach


Joseph Brookes
Senior Reporter

A government tender for highly paid research commercialisation advisers has been abandoned after an investigation found procurement rules had been broken, including “communications” with incumbent suppliers.

The Department of Education on Friday terminated its tender for priority managers to help deliver Australia’s Economic Accelerator (AEA), a $1.6 billion university research commercialisation program.

The tender launched last May but had been frozen for the last six months following a complaint about …

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