Tag: IBM

Audit finds conflicts of interest in IBM Defence work

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
IBM representatives were present and involved in decisions at several meetings related to a major Defence information technology project which resulted in the company receiving contract amendments worth nearly...

Melbourne Health embraces IBM digital uplift

Posted on   |  by Stuart Corner
Melbourne Health is one of Australia’s leading public healthcare providers, responsible for the Royal Melbourne Hospital, NorthWestern Mental Health and the Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory. All up, these...

Outsourced tech contracts ‘defy common sense’

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Handing lucrative IT contracts to multinational tech delivery firms “defies common sense” and undermines the capacity of the public sector to build technical capability, leading tax experts have told...

DTA dishes out contracts worth millions

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The Digital Transformation Agency has dished out a number of contracts to private companies worth millions of dollars, including for work on the redevelopment of myGov and a review...

Deloitte given further $5m for myGov work

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government has handed Deloitte a further $5 million to continue the redevelopment of myGov, with the multinational consulting giant now being paid nearly $40 million since early...

IBM bringing cloud services to regional Australia

Posted on   |  by Stuart Corner
Regional businesses are significant contributors to Australia’s economy but must contend with many challenges from which their metropolitan area counterparts are largely spared: fire, drought, flood and, most recently,...

myGov rebuild panel is finally made public

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government has finally revealed the private contractors working on the redevelopment of the myGov platform, with a panel of providers dominated by multinational technology firms building the...

IBM gets $19m for govt COVID vaccine platform

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The government has awarded IBM a two-year, $19 million contract to upgrade the backend of Australia’s immunisation records system to cope with COVID vaccination data. Services Australia manages the...