Multinational businesses are gaming Commonwealth Procurement Rules to maintain their tendering advantage over small and medium- sized enterprises, according to Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman Bruce Billson....
Multinational prime contractors are being invited to apply for the next iteration of the Defence department’s Global Supply Chain Program, which intends to help Australian small to medium sized...
Two programs supporting innovative SMEs in the agrifood sector, run by the national science agency CSIRO and federally funded innovation network AgriFutures, have opened to applications. CSIRO’s Innovate to...
A panel of Australian-only defence industry suppliers should be created by the Department of Defence to support advanced capability and build supply chain resilience, two local firms have argued...
To boost productivity, a “matchmaker” service to connect small and medium sized enterprises with research institutions should be established and funded by the federal government, the Victorian Chamber of...
The New South Wales government has fallen short of its ambitious target to spend 30 per cent of its annual technology procurement budget with local small to medium-sized enterprise....
The New South Wales government is “tracking in the right direction” with a self-imposed target to spend 30 per cent of its annual tech procurement budget with local small...
At the Sydney Energy Forum on Tuesday, the Australian government two new partnerships with the United States and announced its participation in a global minerals security partnership. Initial areas...
CSIRO has secured the largest government contract to date from the Defence Innovation Hub to develop advanced respiratory protective equipment for the Australian Defence Force. The respirator technology was...
The Commonwealth Procurement Rules have been changed to give small and medium sized businesses a bigger slice of the $70 billion the federal government spends annually on contracts and...