Half a dozen external procurement advisers were paid $88 million to assist the tax office with sourcing its major IT managed services, after the deals blew out more than four-fold.
The cost blow out and the breaching of procurement rules in one of the adviser tenders was revealed in an external audit of the sourcing effort tabled to parliament this week.
Along with conflicts of interest issues, it has marred the otherwise mostly effective $2.5 billion tech uplift at the Australian Taxation Office.
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