Tag: ICT procurement

Agency pushback on proposed bans for unethical contractors

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Proposed legislation to ban unethical contractors from government procurement opportunities would introduce significant operational risks to technology delivery programs, the Digital Transformation Agency says. A private members bill put...

New govt register to name and shame poor tech contractors

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Companies that bungle government digital projects risk being named on a new federal register that could see them miss out on future work under a new policy designed to create...

Tech mega-deals face shake-up as some fail to deliver value

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Finance minister Katy Gallagher says the federal government will continue single-sourcing arrangements with tech giants “where they deliver value”, but that some of the deals are falling short. She...

Canberra moves to break Microsoft reseller’s grip

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The federal government’s exclusive Microsoft licensing agreement with Data#3 is being market tested for the first time in eight years, potentially ending the reseller’s almost 20-year stranglehold on Canberra....

Call for crackdown on Big Four software tie-ups

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Big Four consulting firms that have commercial agreements with software vendors would be barred from advising federal government agencies on technology projects under a proposal from TechnologyOne. In a...

Salesforce hooks into another agency with $3m deal

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Salesforce has landed another federal government contract, this time securing a $3.2 million deal with the Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) as part of a Deloitte-led project for a...

DTA won’t reveal true cost of Canberra’s AWS mega-deal

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
A federal government decision to withhold the cost of its latest three-year cloud mega-deal with Amazon Web Services has sparked transparency concerns and criticism that it has been strong-armed...

Whole-of-govt tech mega-deals review gets underway

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The federal government has opened the consultation process for an independent review of its seven technology mega-deals, collectively worth more than a billion dollars each year. The review of...