Tag: ANAO

Review of Morrison’s Moderna deal quietly delayed

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
An audit of the federal government’s controversial deal to bring Moderna to Melbourne to manufacture vaccines has been quietly delayed by four months, pushing its findings into the summer...

DTA procurement reforms fall short in follow-up audit

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The Digital Transformation Agency continues to struggle to meet its obligations under the Commonwealth Procurement Rules, three years after it was first pulled up for widespread non-compliance. A follow-up...

Govt goes to market for new grant platform technology

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government has approached the market for a new SaaS-based platform to administer the $30 billion in Commonwealth grants deployed each year, replacing the troubled Grants Hubs. The...

Digital ID, CDR and AI in the audit office’s crosshairs

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The national audit office is mulling investigations into the Consumer Data Right, the digital identity scheme and the federal government’s oversight of new technologies, but an inquiry into the...

Health department’s software SNAFU laid bare

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The federal Health department has been locked in a year-and-a-half long legal battle over whether it owns software developed by subcontractors, after the consultancy that sat in the middle...

Procurement advisers cash in on ATO technology uplift

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
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...