Stories about: Office of Asset Sales and IT Outsourcing

Serious probity issues have been raised in an audit of a $351 million Federal Government IT outsourcing contract won by IBM GSA after a computer disk with tender information was 'misplaced'.

A motion was passed in the Senate last night to investigate the outsourcing of the Australian Custom's Service (ACS) IT.

The federal government has announced a new industry framework for IT outsourcing within commonwealth agencies.

A special meeting of the Senate Committee investigating the government's IT outsourcing debacle was held Friday February 16 to determine what action should be taken against a senior bureaucrat in charge of the program who has admitted misleading Parliament.

The Office of Asset Sales and IT Outsourcing (OASITO) has refused to provide the Senate with documentation on the government's bungled outsourcing program claiming 'commercial sensitivity'.

IT Opposition Spokeswoman Senator Kate Lundy has accused the government of incompetence for refusing to answer questions relating to the bungled IT Outsourcing Program in parliament on yesterday.

Opponents of the government's IT outsourcing program are gearing up for a political dogfight when parliament resumes today but the man at the centre of the row, Finance Minister John Fahey will be out of the firing line because of illness.

As Labor's Senator Kate Lundy continues to pursue John Fahey 'the embattled Minister for Finance and Administration ' over the implementation of the government's outsourcing regime, it is becoming clear the controversy will not just fade away. Lundy kept the flames fanned this week when she claimed that Fahey's department has failed to answer crucial questions about the payment of $A17 million for strategic advice to a US law firm.

Software support at Australia's Bureau of Meteorology could drop by more than 50 per cent if it is outsourced to private industry, according to a consultancy review prepared for the forecasting body.

Davnet won a contract to install a broadband fibre communications network in the tallest building in the US - Chicago's Sears Tower - while eGlobal International won a similar intelligent building contract in China, then Intellect, which just cannot stay out of the news, cracked a $A3 million contract in The Netherlands. And that was just the tip of this week's news

Software support at Australia's Bureau of Meteorology could drop by more than 50 per cent if it is outsourced to private industry, according to a consultancy review prepared for the forecasting body.