Tag: procurement

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...

‘Time pressures’ hang over NDIA technology overhaul

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The potential overhaul of NDIS backend technologies is occurring under “considerable time pressures”, with the agency leading it declining to grant extensions to vendors considering making a proposal. The...

NDIA mulls tech overhaul after procurement scandal

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The National Disability Insurance Agency is considering an overhaul of its technology stack that could see it abandon a scandal linked Salesforce system after investing almost $150 million in...

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...

Just how sovereign does our tech sector need to be?

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Australian policymakers face a very particular challenge in relation to the artificial intelligence and its contribution to productivity, according to Vault Cloud chief executive Rupert Taylor-Price. That is how...