Tag: Department of Finance

Govt launches public sector AI tool amid productivity push

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
A new platform that gives federal public servants a secure way to experiment with artificial intelligence models like OpenAI’s GPT-4o has launched, as the government looks to boost adoption...

APS pilot brings local OpenAI instance to Canberra

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Federal agencies will gain access to an Australian instance of OpenAI’s GPT-4o as part of a whole-of-government AI service being trialed to accelerate the adoption of AI across the...

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...

Contractor and consultant tracking switched on

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The Department of Finance has launched a tool to track labour hire staff and management consultants across government, promising a new layer of integrity after a sprawl of temporary...

Finance department wraps up PwC investigation

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The federal government has completed its investigation into whether Big Four consulting giant PwC should be allowed to resume bidding for new Commonwealth work in the wake of the...

Finance called on to clamp down on contracting scandals

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The Finance department must start taking action to lift contract management capability across the public service, an inquiry has found after examining a string of contracting failures and scandals....

Failings trigger call to break up govt’s tech work

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Large government technology projects should be broken up into smaller bundles of work and delivered in an agile way with sustainment and upgrade funding factored in from the start,...

Canberra’s anti-GovERP uplift gets underway

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
A handful of federal agencies have begun drawing up plans to replace their enterprise resource planning systems in the wake of the government’s disastrous $340 million GovERP project. As...