Surveillance Australia handed six-year extension just three months after auditor general found home affairs’ management of contract ‘not effective’
The home affairs department must hand over a list of all expiring contracts due for renewal after it extended a contract for civil maritime surveillance for six years, just months after a critical report found it had paid for flight time when no planes were in the air.
The contract was extended for another six years with very little variation just three months after the auditor general’s report. The contract, now worth $2.6bn to the company, has not been put to tender since it was first awarded in 2006. “We have plans to go out to market, but the market sweeps that have been done have sort of confirmed the market is not ready to respond quickly and needs time to build up that capability in order to get it to a deliverable state, hence the length of the extension that’s been done,” Monterosso said.
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