Tag: COVID

BCG and McKinsey govt contracts double in 2020

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The dollar value in government contracts awarded to Boston Consulting Group and McKinsey doubled in 2020, with both large US management consultant firms enjoying a sharp increase in federal...

Chequered past of COVID partner HealthEngine

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Local startup HealthEngine has won the federal contract to deliver a COVID-19 vaccination bookings platform, just months after the company was fined nearly $3 million for misleading conduct. HealthEngine,...

BCG gets $11.5m for Vic digital contact tracing

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Boston Consulting Group was paid more than $11 million over three months to digitise the Victorian government’s paper-based COVID-19 contact tracing system late last year and implement Salesforce’s customer...

NSW targets translation in industrial drive

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Startup and SME-focused procurement reform and a plan to plug R&D linkages directly into precincts like TechCentral in Sydney are at the core of NSW government’s industrial policy zeal. There is an...

More work on Vic Salesforce tracing platform

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The Victorian government will pay a large tech consultancy nearly $4 million to improve its Salesforce COVID-19 contact tracing platform over the first six months of this year. Under...

‘Misguided’: Vic govt ditches COVID platform

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The Victorian government made a “misguided and costly mistake” in buying a $4 million IBM platform as part of its effort to combat the COVID-19 second wave, appearing to...

Tech intensive jobs to lead economic recovery

Posted on   |  by Dave Sharma
As Australia begins to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, thoughts are naturally turning to economic recovery. The Australian economy has taken a big hit from the pandemic. The economy...

Larry Marshall: ‘History will judge us’

Posted on   |  by James Riley
At a time when public trust in science is on the rise, CSIRO chief executive Larry Marshall has issued a clarion call to Australia to rally around a set...

Medical research skills gap looms

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The nation’s medical research institutes have called on government to fund an additional 300 investigator grants over three years to support early and mid-stage career scientists to remain in...
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