Here We Go Again!

TransAct Contract Done Without Tender Process

Wayne Berry - Opposition Spokesperson on Education

Media Statement - 17 May 2001

The IT contract between TransAct and the ACT Education Department was let without going to tender, the Estimates Committee was told today by the Department of Education during Estimates Committee hearings on the 2001-2002 ACT budget

"This is the Government that brought us the bungled Hospital Implosion, the Bruce Stadium Fiasco and the hated 'Feel the Power' campaign ALL carried out with flawed tendering procedures. The hospital implosion contract process was criticised by the Coroner, the Bruce Stadium contracts were slammed by the Auditor General and the 'Feel the Power' contract was exposed as flawed," Labor Shadow Education Minister Wayne Berry said today.

"We were promised that the Humphries Government had learnt the lessons from those disasters, but they have learned nothing.

"Surely the history of tragedy and economic disaster associated with poor tendering processes is enough to demand a full and open tendering process. A closed arrangement which involved only one provider does nothing to allay concerns that the Humphries Government has learned nothing from the mistakes of the past," Mr Berry concluded.