Mr Deng's IT News Collection: IBM won the contract to design and deliver a whole-of-government payroll system in 2007, but its rollout was plagued by delays and budget blowouts. When it did go live, the system failed spectacularly, resulting in thousands of health workers left on the lurch with their pay. The cost to taxpayers has been estimated by KPMG at $1.2bn and the debacle has been described as possibly the worst public administration failure in Australia.In last year’s Supreme Court hearing, lawyers for IBM said failures with the scheme were because the government was “not able to define and stick to a scope”

05 April, 2016

IBM won the contract to design and deliver a whole-of-government payroll system in 2007, but its rollout was plagued by delays and budget blowouts. When it did go live, the system failed spectacularly, resulting in thousands of health workers left on the lurch with their pay. The cost to taxpayers has been estimated by KPMG at $1.2bn and the debacle has been described as possibly the worst public administration failure in Australia.In last year’s Supreme Court hearing, lawyers for IBM said failures with the scheme were because the government was “not able to define and stick to a scope”

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