Aged-care contracts blow out to $685 million

Accenture, Capgemini and Deloitte have earned $685 million in fees since the start of 2022 .

Accenture was commissioned to develop a single software platform to enable aged-care providers to share information with the Commonwealth .

That 20-month contract for $18.1 million has since been varied five times and is now valued at more than $156 million .

Despite a well-documented history of misfires when it comes to Commonwealth IT projects, Accenture has been by far the biggest winner.

The Department of Health and Aged Care has awarded contracts worth $108.7 million to French multinational Capgemini .

Deloitte , which is headquartered in London , has won contracts for its work on future aged-care IT platforms.

Many Australian small to medium enterprises complain that such firms repeatedly fail to deliver value for money and also represent a wasted opportunity to boost Australian -owned companies.

The ANAO report found the functionality delivered meets basic requirements to process office and travel expenses and payroll for parliamentary staff.

TechnologyOne director of government relations for listed Australian IT company TechnologyOne said $75 million was enough to build an entire commercial finance system that could be sold to hundreds of thousands of customers.