Tag: procurement

AWS gets the red carpet treatment

Posted on   |  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

Posted on   |  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

Posted on   |  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

Posted on   |  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

Posted on   |  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...

Hunt eyes huge new venture fund

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Industry Minister Greg Hunt is considering the launch of a huge new Commonwealth-backed venture fund to support Australian high-growth scale-ups and mid-tier innovators that have found it hard to...

Grant competition to attract SMEs

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The federal Department of Industry steadfastly refuses to call it a procurement policy or an industry development program, but the Business Research and Innovation Initiative (BRII) is a new...

Turnbull unveils new digital plans

Posted on   |  by James Riley
A re-elected Coalition Government will publish a digital transformation roadmap for the public sector by November, and give citizens access to dashboard data that measures against delivery timelines and...

PM’s guide to mandarin survival

Posted on   |  by Stuart Kennedy
Proclaiming that there has “never been a more exciting time to be a public servant” the Prime Minister laid down his ideas yesterday for how savvy mandarins can live...