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BCG and McKinsey govt contracts double in 2020

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

9 March 2021 | 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

1 March 2021 | 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

11 February 2021 | 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

1 February 2021 | 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

17 December 2020 | 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

26 August 2020 | 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’

13 August 2020 | 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

4 August 2020 | 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...

Australia falls behind on R&D recovery

6 July 2020 | by Denham Sadler

Australia is “in danger of being left behind” as most other developed nations place R&D investment at the centre of their COVID-19 economic recoveries, UTS Innovation Council chair Professor...

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