Tag: KPMG

Floodgates open for consultants in pandemic year

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Multinational management consulting firms have enjoyed an extraordinarily good year in Canberra. Federal government spending on advice and services from the global outfits soared by hundreds of millions of...

More DTA contracts for BCG and KPMG

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The Digital Transformation Agency has doubled the value of a contract with the Boston Consulting Group for “funding options analysis”, although the six-month duration of the contract period remains...

Deloitte contract with DTA triples to $28.1m

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Consulting giant Deloitte has landed a $5 million pay rise from the Digital Transformation Agency for its work on a new social network-inspired myGov platform, while its rival KPMG...

DTA consultant costs up 5x in a year

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The dollar value of contracts awarded by the Digital Transformation Agency to tier one management consultants has increased by nearly five times in the financial year since it was...

DTA consultant contracts running super hot

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
McKinsey has won a near-$1 million contract to assist with a new visa processing platform being developed by the Digital Transformation Agency, following a failed attempt to outsource the...

Consultant risk for new ServicesAus

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The new Services Australia department provides an opportunity to improve the digital delivery of government services, but it cannot just replicate its NSW counterpart and rely on outsourcing, according...

Expensive reliance on outside advice

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The government’s use of external consultants to design Services Australia is “deeply concerning” and risks the new department having an “expensive, debilitating dependency” on outsourcing, according to the deputy...

ServicesAus win for McKinsey, KPMG

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The government has called in the big consultanty firms McKinsey and KPMG to help design its new Services Australia department, with the companies sharing in nearly $1 million for...

Aussie VC soars, but it’s lumpy

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The amount of venture capital invested in Australia has soared to a record high, but with a lower number of deals there are concerns about a remaining funding gap...