Mandarins to carry the can for contract blowouts


Senior public servants will be required to sign off on amendments that significantly change the value or scope of government contracts under new procurement rules set to arrive next month.

A procurement policy note circulated this week reveals the new policy that will see variations that more than double a contract’s original agreed value approved by only SES Band 3 officers from July.

The threshold will drop further to 50 …

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