‘Select sourcing’ of EY for $10.7m Digital ID register


Joseph Brookes
Senior Reporter

Consulting giant EY will be paid almost $1 million a month to build the regulatory technology underpinning Australia’s expanding digital identity system, after the big four firm landed its biggest federal contract in years.

Only select suppliers were invited to bid for the work for the ID scheme’s regulator, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), which has declined to reveal how many firms bid.

The “select sourcing” has disappointed local firms, who warn the method is locking local companies out of important technology projects, and led to more calls for wider procurement reform.

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