‘Deeply disappointing’: procurement ombud’s probe into federal management of Indigenous contracts reveals ‘misleading data’
Federal departments and agencies have a mandate to award at least five per cent of the total value of federal contracts to Indigenous-owned and led businesses, but departmental reporting overstated the actual benefit to Indigenous businesses, says the Office of the Procurement Ombud.
Government departments have overstated the success of Indigenous procurement targets, and failed to track and justify whether contracted work was actually performed by Indigenous businesses, according to the findings of a new probe by the federal procurement watchdog.
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