Linda Reynolds (WA, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

We are reaching that point. Again, on that point, I do admire the minister's confidence in the advice that she has, but I would just make the point, in conclusion: with such an accelerated timeframe, history shows that where these projects go wrong in such short timeframes is that ICT procurements often fail to meet value-for-money criteria due to poor governance oversight and lack of compliance with your own CPR rules. There are significant probity risks in ensuring integrity and transparency, with such a compressed timeframe. There's a possibility of lack of competitive processes. I know you have said that there will be contractors engaged. It doesn't leave much time, if they have not yet been engaged, which we haven't got clarity on today.

Just the contract management of such a large project will make it, if the department manages to pull this off—to deliver the system in time to go live on 1 July—it will be I think the first by any government department pulling off such a miracle in such a short period of time.