The Australian Public Service Commission directly hired Deloitte to build a workforce analytics platform — no competitive tender. Budget: $4.8 million. Final cost: $12.7 million — a 165% blowout. The platform analyses public service workforce data. The APS's own people had the data and the expertise. Deloitte got the $12.7 million anyway.
$7.9M of Australian taxpayer money was wasted at Australian Public Service Commission. The Australian Public Service Commission directly hired Deloitte to build a workforce analytics platform — no competitive tender. Budget: $4.8 million. Final cost: $12.7 million — a 165% blowout. The platform analyses public service workforce data. The APS's own people had the data and the expertise. Deloitte got the $12.7 million anyway.
Spread across Australia's 10.8 million households, that's roughly $1 per family — enough in total for covering the yearly wages of 105 public servants.
The Australian Public Service Commission engaged Deloitte to build a workforce analytics and reporting platform through direct sourcing — bypassing competitive tendering entirely. The project cost ballooned from $4.8 million to $12.7 million, a 165% increase. For a data analytics platform, these costs are significantly above market rates, particularly given the 18-month delivery timeline. The direct source procurement method means the APSC did not test whether other firms could deliver equivalent capability at lower cost.
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