Lucrative contracts awarded by the Canberra Institute of Technology to two consultancy companies headed up by a mountaineer have been called into question by the Canberra Liberals.The Canberra Liberals say there is no transparency as to what was delivered through the multi-million-dollar contracts
Since 2018, CIT has awarded four contracts, worth almost $8.5 million, to two companies, Think Garden and Redrogue Nominees. The latest contract for services, signed with Think Garden in March, was worth $5 million, with the same company being awarded a $1.7 million contract in April 2020. But the Canberra Liberals have questioned whether all of the contracts were the best use of public money by the ACT government.Canberra Liberals leader Elizabeth Lee says Canberrans deserve to know what they are paying for.
"There is very little publicly available information to indicate what services were delivered under these contracts and there is no transparency about what Canberrans have received." The spokesman said the contract aimed to "progress the evolution of its complex, adaptive systems-informed approach to CIT's transformation, from its initial exploration, designing and testing phases to a wider systemic implementation".
seems a waste of our tax $?
. Thanks ABC for repirting this corruption at a basic level. I guess that ticks your box. But will this roet be doggedly pusued by the journos of our public journo home - or swept under the carpet now they can say they reported on it... Yep. The ABC will bury the story. .
'Taxpayer money' is a bigoted and classist trope that is ineffective any time that you're trying to use it to punch upward. Get the word 'taxpayer' out of your vocabulary, please.