Supply chain management

PART TWO: Nicholas Gruen and Chris Vanstone’s concluding piece explores both why and how a government supply chain to deliver human services must understand and optimise its own impact.

ESSAY: It’s government’s reputation on the line as human services are increasingly delivered by a corporate supply chain. Nicholas Gruen and Chris Vanstone explore how government can value-add to its supply chain.

Indigenous Business Australia has launched a new team to help its clients in the maturing indigenous business sector win more corporate and government contracts. It will also help federal agencies meet new targets that demand a significant increase in spending with indigenous businesses over the next few years.

Technological solutions for routine activities at all tiers of government can help navigate the challenges that humans find confronting and make auditing simpler. Procurement is ripe for digital transformation, writes Rob Cook.

In one of Ian McPhee’s last investigations as auditor-general, he went back to past recommendations on the application of procurement rules. Despite being on the books for a decade and based on principles far older still, actually following them seems to remain a problem.

Commonwealth mandarins now have their marching orders for exactly how many contracts in each portfolio must go to companies owned by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The new indigenous procurement policy takes effect on July 1.

Technology acquisition — especially when buying as a service through a cloud provider — is still quite immature, and often means the checks that would normally be made for a more visible project or product, are not made.