Defence will cut procurement timeframes and shift to minimum viable contracts to speed innovation to warfighters, under a new strategy centred on building a stronger industrial base. A new...
The Albanese government is facing pressure to back in local manufacturers by requiring that at least 30 per cent of the goods used in Commonwealth projects are made in...
Senior public servants will be required to sign off on amendments that significantly change the value or scope of government contracts under new procurement rules set to arrive next...
The NSW government has suspended any new engagements with KPMG and will require secretaries to sign off on any extensions of current deals or in flight procurements, as concerns...
Documents produced by the Senate last week offer a rare look into how one of the government’s biggest tech suppliers leveraged its partner deals and chopped up its pricing...
This week the federal government is asking Australians to buy Australian-made products as part of the annual Buy Australian Week. Local technology companies would prefer that the federal government...
The tax office is returning to the market for the first time in five years for a ‘liveliness’ solution and other biometric technology to build out the government’s digital...
Australia has no shortage of world-class medical innovation. What Australia lacks, however, is a local health system that buys what it creates. And that’s a difficult issue. It is...
New South Wales is weighing adopting Canberra’s definition of an Australian business, amid concerns its existing rules allow tech multinationals with a local office to access the same procurement...
The federal government will pay more than $5 million a month for the Salesforce software powering the National Disability Insurance Scheme, under a newly signed contract with the US...