Nearly half of all contracts over $200,000 bypassed open competition. No bids invited, no price checks, no documented justification in 38% of cases. $2.1 billion in taxpayer money awarded to pre-selected firms. Two-thirds of those contracts didn't even have a proper procurement plan.
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$2.1B of Australian taxpayer money was misused at Department of Finance. Nearly half of all contracts over $200,000 bypassed open competition. No bids invited, no price checks, no documented justification in 38% of cases. $2.1 billion in taxpayer money awarded to pre-selected firms. Two-thirds of those contracts didn't even have a proper procurement plan.
Spread across Australia's 10.8 million households, that's roughly $194 per family — enough in total for funding roughly 18 public hospitals for a full year.
The audit of Commonwealth procurement practices revealed systemic circumvention of competitive tendering requirements. Of 156 procurements examined that were valued over $200,000, nearly half bypassed open competition through limited tender arrangements without documented justification. Value-for-money assessments were missing in 38% of cases. The $2.1 billion figure represents the total value of contracts awarded through limited tender across the audited entities — money spent without the price discipline that competitive processes provide.
Close the limited tender loophole that let $2.1 billion in contracts skip competitive pricing.
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