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Local tech misses out on federal opportunities

The Digital Transformation Agency has signed its seventh whole-of-government purchasing agreement with a foreign-headquartered tech giant – this time it is with Oracle – with the expressed aim to...

DTA Marketplace did not follow rules: Audit

31 August 2020 | by Denham Sadler

The Digital Transformation Agency did not follow procurement rules when establishing its Digital Marketplace and the processes behind it are “still not robust”, according to the national audit office....

NSW moves on tech sector sovereign capability

23 July 2020 | by James Riley

The NSW government has unveiled a tech procurement taskforce aimed at building sovereign capability and the transfer of skills and capability into the state’s public service delivery programs Having last...

NSW sets new tech procurement terms

7 July 2020 | by James Riley

The NSW Government is expected to introduce minimum participation levels for local companies in large-scale public sector technology projects to ensure it gets maximum impact from its $1.6 billion...

The curious case of AWS and gov’t

17 July 2019 | by James Riley

The whole of government sourcing arrangement signed between the Digital Transformation Agency and the global cloud giant Amazon Web Services raises serious questions about sovereignty in relation to the...

AWS gets the red carpet treatment

28 June 2019 | by James Riley

The Australian Government rolled out a red carpet this week for hyper-scale cloud platform provider Amazon Web Services, helpfully launching a standardised whole-of-government agreement to make it easier to...

Labor tax plan for procurement

31 May 2018 | by James Riley

Overlooked in the detail of the mainstream battle over the future of the tax system in Australia is a Labor plan to force multinational companies to details their tax...

Ex-DTA Hypereal behind Buy.NSW

29 May 2018 | by James Riley

Frustrated by the Digital Transformation Agency’s lack of progress on its Digital Marketplace platform, the NSW Government’s decision to go it alone is telling. And the small team brought...

Ted Pretty on our cyber future

22 August 2017 | by James Riley

Ted Pretty has just completed his first acquisition since becoming chief executive officer at ASX-listed secure collaboration specialist Covata. The company announced a week ago that it had entered...

Public sector ICT is raining money

22 March 2017 | by James Riley

It’s Christmas come early if you are a technology supplier to the Australian Government, with spending on ICT increasing by 50 per cent to $9 billion in the last...

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