[LINK] Federal Government to review all major IT contracts: “ABS put too much faith in IBM”

Glen Turner gdt at gdt.id.au
Fri Mar 3 09:51:00 AEDT 2017


Interestingly, one of the reasons for the ABS issue was recommendations 
from a oversight committee. That committee saw substantial savings in 
moving the ABS to a web-based census and made that one of the performance 
criteria for the incoming Australian Statistician.  The only way for the 
ABS to deliver that capability for the upcoming census was to use the 
external systems integrator it has previously used for a small trial at 
the previous census.

Australian Public Service Commission
"Capability review: Australian Bureau of Statistics"
<http://www.apsc.gov.au/publications-and-media/current-publications/capability-review-abs>
Commonwealth of Australia, 2011

-glen



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