Tag: procurement

DTA slammed for breaking procurement rules in $55m ICT spend

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
An examination of the Digital Transformation Agency’s most costly procurements has found it did not manage risks or follow Commonwealth Procurement Rules, and “fell short of ethical requirements” in...

No proof COVIDSafe app developers were delivering

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The government agency responsible for outsourcing the development of the failed COVIDSafe app did not monitor the developer’s performance or consider value for money as the contract more than...

Have your say: Public sector procurement survey

Posted on   |  by James Riley
By any yardstick, federal spending on information technology products and services is massive. Depending on the ebb and flow of tech projects, that spending amounts to somewhere between $7...

IBM trousers $39m ServicesAus mainframe upgrade

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
American tech giant IBM will be paid more than $39 million over the next five years to upgrade the mainframe environment serving federal government programs like Centrelink and Medicare....

Albanese on tech skills, procurement and industry policy

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says skilled migration would be an important short-term fix for chronic tech skills shortages, but ultimately it would be smart education and training policy that...

Husic puts a spotlight on foreign research collaborations

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Industry and Science minister Ed Husic has set the hares running on the issue of sovereign capability, local research, and the need to retain intellectual property in Australia in...

Fixing procurement must start with better data: Thompson

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
In relation to purchases of information technology, the federal government is currently not able to properly understand with any real clarity what it is buying, from whom it is...