Tag: permissions capability

Parliament to probe botched visa platform procurements

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Home Affairs officials, consultants and technology suppliers will be asked to explain a failed visa privatisation attempt, its abandoned replacement and their controversial procurements to Parliament’s powerful audit committee....

Lessons from Canberra’s latest tech catastrophe

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
If it wasn’t already obvious, this week’s report into Australia’s scuttled business registers transformation has left no room for misinterpretation. The case for large-scale technology projects in government no...

Permissions capability platform tender gets an ANAO thumping

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The Department of Home Affairs “departed” from its initial tender requirements in awarding Accenture the contract for the permission capability platform, according to an audit which calls into question...

Deloitte evaluated govt tenders while helping prepare bid

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Consulting giant Deloitte acted as both a procurement advisor for the government on its visa processing technology overhaul and helped a company prepare a bid for the lucrative work,...

Outsourced visa tech upgrade ‘was a disaster’

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
The decades old ICT systems underpinning Australia’s migration system need “urgent modernisation” after years of “systemic underinvestment” and failed “big bang” upgrades, according to an independent review of the...