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The APS still bungles procurement — Albania just handed us a fix
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The Mandarin
That expression: “if it’s good enough for Albania, it’s good enough for Australia.”OK, that may be apocryphal, but it’s a nice idea.
ANAO performance audits assess procurement in Australian government entities against the Commonwealth Procurement Rules (or their equivalent) and the PGPA Act.
There were 36 performance audits of procurement and contract management conducted over 2019-20 to 2023-24, with 53% found to be either ‘not effective’ or ‘partly effective’.
The chatbot could be trained on the CPRs and hundreds of Auditor-General’s reports to identify risks and red flags in procurement.
With sufficient data, it could also be extended to assess applications for grant funding, evaluate contract performance, and vet procurement exercises.