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Australia: Aged-care IT contracts blow out to $685 million — ‘What the public will never know is that the system is a horror show. It’s a bad product’: IT contractor
EXCLUSIVE: Analysis of IT contracts to support the new aged-care system show fees have ballooned to $685 million for just three multinational consultancies.
Greens Senator Barbara Pocock, who has played a key role in exposing how multinational consulting firms interact with the Commonwealth, told The Saturday Paper that a big question for her was why repeat offenders such as Accenture were able to keep winning contracts. It beggars belief that such huge amounts of money can be flushed away with absolutely nothing to show.”“When we have the likes of Accenture responding to a report from the auditor-general that pinpoints a range of contract failures by saying they are proud of the work they delivered, it’s an indication that the consulting sector is in denial,” Pocock said. Perhaps no case study rankles Australian executives more than the Department of Finance’s decision to engage German multinational software giant SAP to design a new IT system for parliamentarians and their staff to claim and process office and travel expenses, as well as administer payroll services.
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