New suppliers frozen out of Canberra’s $15bn tech panel again


Joseph Brookes
Senior Reporter

An overhaul of the federal government’s Digital Marketplace has been pushed back to late 2024 to evaluate a flood of new applicants and allow agencies to update their procurement processes, frustrating budding new suppliers.

The latest delay to Digital Marketplace 2.0 puts it a year behind schedule and continues the freeze on adding new suppliers to the panel arrangement that has facilitated more than $14.9 billion in government contracts to …

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