Defence bypassed procurement rules for its trouble-plagued $199 million security clearance system, granting only Accenture the opportunity to develop a ‘solution to a budget’, an audit has found. The...
NSW universities overlooked federal laws designed to help protect critical infrastructure assets from cyber incidents in their first full year of operation by failing to identify critical systems and...
Accenture was awarded two closed tenders worth hundreds of millions of dollars for work on My Health Record while it was locked in a three year dispute with the...
The state-wide rollout of South Australia’s school management system has blown out by $47 million and is set to climb higher as the government re-doubles efforts on a rollout...
The New South Wales government’s 30-year old core licensing technology is exposed to cyber-attacks that could impact 140 other organisations, but the state auditor could find no evidence that...
Federal Parliament’s troubled expense management software upgrade suffered from a lack of user planning and governance gaps, according to an audit that confirms the unfinished project’s budget and timeline...
At least 16 organisations are seeking compensation from the Commonwealth because of a heavily flawed and unfair tender process for the former government’s flagship industry innovation program. The claims...
A government-led parliamentary committee has called for the Department of Finance to expedite the creation of a procurement profession within the Australian Public Service to address the “significant capability...
Two of the federal government’s most high-profile technology misfires of the past year, Defence’s myClearance vetting system and Parliament’s expenses management system, are to be examined by the Australia’s...
The Department of Home Affairs “departed” from its initial tender requirements in awarding Accenture the contract for the permission capability platform, according to an audit which calls into question...