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Off| Project name | DCA 2024 | DCA 2025 | Delivery status | Total budget ($ million) | Digital budget ($ million) | Project end date | Project description |
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| Busting Congestion for Agricultural Exporters: Digital Services to Take Farmers to Markets | Medium-High | Medium- Low | Active | 323.0 | 323.0 | 30 Jun 2025 | The Take Farmers to Markets (TFTM)program is transforming Australia’s agricultural export systems with the delivery of contemporary digital products and services for trade and exporter engagement. Tranche 1 established the foundations for the digital reforms by uplifting existing systems onto modern and reliable platforms and developing new digital services. Tranche 2 builds up on the capabilities delivered in Tranche 1 through delivery of a dynamic program of work that enables the department to become a risk-based, data-driven, digital regulator. |
| Project name | DCA 2024 | DCA 2025 | Delivery status | Total budget ($ million) | Digital budget ($ million) | Project end date | Project description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capital Security, Technology and Asset Refresh (CapSTAR) | Medium- High | Active | 279.0 | 189.8 | 30 Jun 2028 | The CapSTAR program aims to refresh and maintain essential property and ICT assets, reduce risk in service delivery and ensure critical business systems are supported, patched and resilient. The program outcome will be a sustainable and efficient technology and physical infrastructure portfolios, through reduction of technical debt and an increased level of physical and cyber maturity. | |
| Simplified Targeting and Enhanced Processing Systems (STEPS) | Medium | Medium- Low | Active | 144.9 | 144.9 | 30 Jun 2026 | The Simplified Trade and Enhanced Processing System (STEPS) program will transform the border process for cargo importers who depend on the department to mitigate and regulate biosecurity risk in a challenging global marketplace. At the time of preparing this report, this project is subject to the escalation protocols set out in the Assurance Framework for Digital and ICT-enabled Projects. These protocols are designed to support agencies in the timely resolution of delivery challenges. |
| Supporting a Stronger and More Sustainable Agriculture Sector | Not reported | Medium- High | Active | 8.8 | 8.8 | 30 Jun 2025 | This proposal seeks to uplift the ICT, data and statistical systems capabilities to meet the needs of department. This will improve the accessibility of agricultural data and information, improve and remediate survey processing systems, rebuild geospatial infrastructure and gather requirements on future capabilities necessary to transform and enable agricultural data and information products to suit changing needs. |
| Project name | Delivery status | Total budget ($ million) | Digital budget ($ million) | Project end date | Project description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Climate Services for Agriculture | Active | 17.2 | 4.4 | 30 Jun 2028 | The Climate Services for Agriculture (CSA)program aims to build drought resilience by enabling users to anticipate future climate conditions, compare those conditions with historical climate records, and consider potential impacts on the food and fibre products they produce. CSA provides climate projections for specific commodities at a local scale via a free online platform ‘My Climate View’. |
| Future Drought Fund Knowledge Sharing | Active | 11.4 | 7.3 | 30 Jun 2028 | This proposal seeks to make the knowledge generated by the Future Drought Fund (FDF) more accessible, and to promote wider adoption through a systematic and strategic approach. In particular, the development of a knowledge management system (Dorper2) to collect and store FDF knowledge such as program outputs and outcomes, project data and information, and contract management information. |
| Project name | DCA 2024 | DCA 2025 | Delivery status | Total budget ($ million) | Digital budget ($ million) | Project end date | Project description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contract Market Monitoring | Medium | Active | 26.0 | 6.0 | 30 Jun 2027 | The project aims to collect, store and analyse highly sensitive energy contracts data and provide insights into the performance of the wholesale electricity and gas markets, greater scrutiny of the conduct of the energy market participants and broader understanding in the operation and impact of contract markets and overall resilience of the electricity and gas sectors. | |
| Retail Performance Reporting | Not reported | Medium | Active | 3.2 | 3.2 | 30 Jun 2025 | The project will allow the Australian Energy Regulator (AER) to collect data from energy retail businesses efficiently, quickly and effectively conduct critical analysis to deliver stronger outcomes to energy consumers. Using improved data and digital systems, the AER will be able to provide richer and more timely insights into energy consumer outcomes including levels of debt and the assistance retailers are providing in this time of significant cost-of-living pressures. |
| Project name | DCA 2024 | DCA 2025 | Delivery status | Total budget ($ million) | Digital budget ($ million) | Project end date | Project description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ROBUST | Medium | Medium-High | Closed | 865.7 | 682.0 | 30 Jun 2024 | The ROBUST Program is securing and strengthening all elements of the Bureau of Meteorology (the Bureau) operating environment to provide continuous availability of critical services and mitigate risks arising from the fragility of the existing technology environment. |
| ROBUST Transition Program | Medium-High | Active | 36.2 | 36.2 | 30 Jun 2025 | The ROBUST Transition Program is the successor of the ROBUST Program that closed on 30 June 2024. The primary objective is to deliver the residual scope from the ROBUST Program to enable the Bureau to realise the full outcomes and benefits from the ROBUST Program. A second DCA assessment is currently in progress and expected to be available in early 2025. |
| Project name | 2024 | 2025 | Delivery status | Total budget ($ million) | Digital budget ($ million) | Project end date | Project description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Water Market Reform | Not reported | High | Active | 32.7 | 18.2 | 30 Jun 2027 | This project is restoring transparency, integrity and confidence to water markets through a new single digital platform for national water data management, a new water market website and water market data standards. |
| Project name | Delivery status | Total budget ($ million) | Digital budget ($ million) | Project end date | Project description |
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| National Climate Risk Assessment – Technical Delivery Stream | Active | 19.1 | 0.2 | 30 Jun 2025 | The National Climate Risk Assessment is intended to identify and analyse nationally significant climate-related risks for Australia for action by the National Adaptation Plan. These are risks whose consequences would be pervasive and prolonged, and thus will require a national coordinated response. |
| Project name | DCA 2024 | DCA 2025 | Delivery status | Total budget ($ million) | Digital budget ($ million) | Project end date | Project description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CER's Integrated Transformation and Sustainment Investment (ITSI) – Program Tranche 1: Core technological modernisation, streamlined digital services and transparency | Medium-High | Active | 145.0 | 63.4 | 30 Jun 2028 | The ITSI includes a broad range of individual initiatives that will deliver new business and technological capability to accelerate carbon abatement and improved biodiversity outcomes for Australia. Program Tranche 1 establishes new business systems and core technological capability to streamline and improve digital services and transparency across the schemes that the Clean Energy Regulator (CER) administers. This includes initiatives started between 2020 and 2022 that are now well advanced, and at or near build completion. | |
| CER's Integrated Transformation and Sustainment Investment (ITSI) – Program Tranche 2: Leverage modernised capabilities and investment value extension | Medium-Low | Medium | Active | 96.1 | 43.5 | 30 Jun 2034 | The ITSI includes a range of individual initiatives that will deliver new business and technological capability to accelerate carbon abatement and improved biodiversity outcomes for Australia. From 2023, Program Tranche 2 extends core technological capability, delivering new schemes and continuing to modernise existing scheme administration and transparency. |
| Project name | DCA 2024 | DCA 2025 | Delivery status | Total budget ($ million) | Digital budget ($ million) | Project end date | Project description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capturing Australia's Emissions Reduction Data | Medium-High | Active | 21.8 | 13.8 | 30 Jun 2026 | The aim of this project is to support and enhance core IT systems for the ongoing delivery of Australia's National Greenhouse Accounts (historical and projected greenhouse gas emissions estimates) to fulfil legislative and international treaty reporting obligations, track progress against national emissions reduction targets, inform national and sectoral decarbonisation plans and 2035 target setting, and enable continued delivery of tools required for the Australian Carbon Credit Unit (ACCU) scheme. | |
| Establishing Environment Protection Australia (EPA) | Not reported | Medium-Low | Active | 121.0 | NFP | 30 Jun 2027 | The aim of this project is to establish a new independent Commonwealth agency, known as Environment Protection Australia, to enforce national environmental laws and restore confidence in Australia's environmental protection system. The funding usage includes both operating costs and one-off transitional costs. |
| Improve Energy Planning | Not reported | Not reported | Active | 18.9 | 8.3 | 01 Jun 2026 | This measure seeks to improve energy planning and inform investment in energy networks and enabling infrastructure, including by developing new or improved energy forecasting models that enable more granular and integrated analysis of future energy demand. |
| Project name | Delivery status | Total budget ($ million) | Digital budget ($ million) | Project end date | Project description |
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| Commonwealth Climate Risk and Opportunity Management Program | Active | 9.3 | 3.0 | 01 Jun 2026 | To enhance climate risk management capabilities across the Commonwealth public sector, a new climate risk management guide and learning and development tools have been developed. To support this capability, the climate risk management digital tool currently being developed will be a user-friendly digital tool that provides the necessary data, knowledge and guidance to Australian Public Service agencies to produce climate risk assessment reports. |
| Digital Environmental Assessment Program | Active | 52.5 | 42.0 | 30 Jun 2026 | The Sustaining Environmental Assessments measure provided funds to extend this workflow system to include a searchable public register of Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 offsets (the National Environmental Offset System) and for integration with the compliance investigations ICT system. This work includes design of functional interfaces with the systems being developed for compliance purposes and risk rating so that these systems can operate in the future as modules of a more comprehensive approach to managing information relevant to the protection of the environment. |
| Environment Information Australia | Active | 51.0 | 6.0 | 30 Jun 2027 | Environment Information Australia (EIA) has been established to provide accessible, interoperable and high-quality environmental data and information. The investment will support EIA to deliver environmental information, analytics and tools to support the operation of nature repair market, state of the environment reporting, and for environmental economic accounting. |
| Housing Energy Upgrades Fund (previously Empowering and Enabling Energy Performance) | Closed | 36.7 | 1.8 | 30 Jun 2024 | This project includes the discovery and alpha stages of a new Greenhouse and Energy Minimum Standards (GEMS) registration system. The current GEMS registration system is ageing and unable to support implementing the requirements of an updated GEMS Act. |
| Initial Preparations to Host a UNFCCC COP (COP31) | Active | 76.2 | 2.7 | 31 Dec 2025 | Operational planning and initial procurements to deliver on the Australian Government's commitment to host the 31st conference of the parties (COP31) for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) in 2026 in close partnership with the Pacific. |
| Online Data Collection and Reporting Mechanism for the DEF Market | Active | 4.6 | 4.6 | 30 Jun 2025 | The purpose of the market transparency measure for the Diesel Exhaust Fluid (DEF) sector is to establish a data collection and reporting framework for the DEF market to increase transparency and assist in avoiding future supply shortages. |
| Waste and Resource Recovery Data Program | Closed | 20.6 | 20.6 | 30 Jun 2024 | The program aims to present publicly available national data on waste and resource recovery online, and in visual form to support understanding. Work with state and territory governments will seek to standardise definitions and waste reporting. |
| Waste Exports Licencing and Declaration – WELD | Active | 0.7 | 0.7 | 30 Jun 2025 | The Waste Export Licensing and Declaration (WELD) database contains data relating to applications for waste export licences including licence variations, renewals and exemptions. The Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water uses the database to assess licence/exemption applications and manage issued licences/exemptions. Licence applicants and holders use the database to submit information to the department, communicate with the department and declare exports. |
| Project name | Delivery status | Total budget ($ million) | Digital budget ($ million) | Project end date | Project description |
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| IGWC ICT Enabling Systems | Active | 1.3 | 1.3 | 30 Jun 2025 | The Inspector-General of Water Compliance is a statutory authority with oversight and regulatory functions for managing water use in the Murray-Darling Basin, established by the Australian Government. To help manage these legislative objectives, this project will assess and design future state solutions for technology that will support establishing secure and integrated data and information management systems that align with whole-of-Australian Government security standards. |
| Project name | DCA 2024 | DCA 2025 | Delivery status | Total budget ($ million) | Digital budget ($ million) | Project end date | Project description |
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| Basin Plan Review ICT and Data Project | Not reported | Medium-High | Active | 103.7 | 14.5 | 31 Dec 2026 | This project is implementing the Australian Government's commitment to safeguard and future-proof the Murray-Darling Basin by preparing for, and undertaking in full, the statutory Basin Plan Review. Outcomes include enabling data and ICT required to support the review, making data and information publicly available and accessible to a range of audiences, and managing delivery of the work program. |
| Project name | DCA 2024 | DCA 2025 | Delivery status | Total budget ($ million) | Digital budget ($ million) | Project end date | Project description |
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| Tertiary Collection of Student Information (TCSI) Renewal Project | Not reported | Medium-High | Active | 31.6 | 27.8 | 30 Jun 2026 | The TCSI Renewal project is an ICT project delivering improved decision-making, service provision, access, and security. It will reduce administrative overheads, improve productivity and increase satisfaction of higher education providers and, students. The benefits will be delivered through enhancements to analytic capacity, monitoring and service delivery tools to drive more accurate and timely data collection processes and ensure the security and privacy of data holdings. |
| Project name | DCA 2024 | DCA 2025 | Delivery status | Total budget ($ million) | Digital budget ($ million) | Project end date | Project description |
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| Education Funding System (formerly known as Transforming Program for Schools and Universities) | Medium-High | Medium-Low | Active | 91.7 | 71.1 | 30 Jun 2026 | The Education Funding System (EFS) project is a significant initiative undertaken by the Australian Government Department of Education. The primary goal of the EFS project is to modernise and streamline the management of education funding across Australia; to improve the administration of $46 billion in annual funding allocated to Australian schools and higher education institutions. |
| Project name | Delivery status | Total budget ($ million) | Digital budget ($ million) | Project end date | Project description |
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| Child Care Subsidy (CCS) Reform – Streamline and Automation of Gap Fee Compliance | Active | 88.2 | 7.5 | 30 Jun 2025 | The Child Care Subsidy (CCS) Reform aims to enhance CCS program integrity and efficiency by automating and streamlining gap fee compliance activities. This project is part of broader efforts from 2022–23 to 2024-25 to prevent fraud and ensure compliance, delivering significant savings over6 years. The project enhances the financial support through the CCS, benefiting Australian families and children. |
| Plan for Cheaper Child Care | Closed | 3.1 | 3.1 | 30 Jun 2024 | New data infrastructure replaced the existing child care data warehouse, analytics and reporting processes with a robust end-to-end solution that will also deliver benefits for the department’s data analytics, compliance monitoring, integrity and fraud detection activities. |
| Schools Unique Student Identifier (USI) | Active | NFP | NFP | 31 Dec 2027 | The schools USI is a joint initiative between the Commonwealth and the states and territories under the Better and Fairer Schools Agreement 2025–2034 which has superseded the National School Reform Agreement 2019–2024. This initiative is extending the national USI system to the school sector. Implementation will continue in 2025, with all school students to have a USI by the end of 2027. |
| Project name | DCA 2024 | DCA 2025 | Delivery status | Project end date | Project description | ||
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| Digital Transformation Program (Strengthening Integrity of the VET sectors) | High | Active | 37.8 | 21.1 | 30 Jun 2027 | The Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA) is the national regulator of the Vocational Education and Training (VET) sector. In February 2024, it commenced its 3.5-year Digital Transformation Program to address issues with current ICT systems and data capabilities. The objective of the Program is to ensure that ASQA is a modern, best practice regulator, through the implementation and integration of contemporary systems and applications that will ensure ASQA can efficiently and effectively deliver its regulatory and organisational priorities. |
| Project name | DCA 2024 | DCA 2025 | Delivery status | Total budget ($ million) | Digital budget ($ million) | Project end date | Project description |
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| VSLConnect | Not reported | Medium-High | Active | 41.7 | 24.7 | 30 Jun 2025 | This project is enabling the Australian Government to better realise the benefits of the VET Student Loans (VSL) program and minimise the risk of occurrences such as the recent historical student debt issue. It will have a stronger focus on compliance and automation, and deliver a system that is a flexible, scalable and stable with a greatly enhanced data collection, integration and analytics capability. |
| Project name | DCA 2024 | DCA 2025 | Delivery status | Total budget ($ million) | Digital budget ($ million) | Project end date | Project description |
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| Apprenticeship Modernisation Program (AMP) | Medium High | High | Closed | 39.2 | 31.9 | 30 Jun 2024 | The Apprenticeships Data Management System (ADMS) streamlined the delivery of apprenticeship programs and services, reduced the administrative burden of employers and apprentices, and provided better data to support evidence-based policy decision-making. An innovative and modernised IT system will enhance direct engagement with apprentices and employers, and streamline processes for providers, enabling them to concentrate on providing advisory services. |
| New Energy Apprenticeships | Not reported | High | Closed | 17.2 | 17.2 | 30 Jun 2024 | The New Energy Apprenticeships Program is contributing to Australia’s transition to a cleaner future. It is designed to encourage apprentices to choose clean energy careers, improve retention rates and deliver more successful completions by providing direct financial support to Australian apprentices commencing an Australian apprenticeship in a clean energy occupation. |
| Onboarding complementary programs onto the Workforce Australia Digital Platform | Medium-High | Medium-High | Closed | 34.9 | 14.2 | 30 Jun 2024 | This project seeks to onboard 3 complementary programs from their existing legacy ICT systems to the Workforce Australia Digital Platform (the platform). Onboarding these complementary programs to the platform will deliver improvements to user experiences, program uptake, policy agility and better technical sustainability. Ultimately more individuals will be supported through these complementary programs to find work or start their own business. |
| Parents Next Replacement Solution / Voluntary Pre employment Service for Parents | Medium-High | Active | 116.9 | 42.4 | 30 Jun 2026 | The project is supporting the implementation of Parent Pathways, a voluntary service that provides personalised assistance and financial support to eligible parents and carers of children up to the age of 6 years. This included extending ParentsNext to 31 October 2024 and introducing Parent Pathways from 1 November 2024, which included releasing the IT system on the Workforce Australia Digital Platform and the APS Pilot. As part of the project, enhancements will be made to Parent Pathways. | |
| Targeted Support for Apprenticeships (Option 1) | Not reported | High | Closed | 9.3 | 9.3 | 30 Jun 2024 | This project introduced a new non-financial support model for Australian apprenticeships from 1 July 2024. The model redesigned and refocused key support services delivered by the Australian Apprenticeship Support Network to increase apprenticeship completion rates and the diversity of the apprentice workforce. |
| Project name | Delivery status | Total budget ($ million) | Digital budget ($ million) | Project end date | Project description |
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| Enhancements to the Workforce Australia Digital Platform to administer the redesigned foundation skills program | Active | 10.9 | 10.9 | 30 Jun 2025 | This project is to deliver enhancements to the Workforce Australia Digital Platform to administer the redesigned Skills for Education and Employment program. |
| Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) scheme insourcing | Active | 6.1 | 6.1 | 30 Jun 2025 | The project transferred the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility Information System (PALMIS) to the department’s infrastructure from July to December 2023. Work is now focused on expanding and enhancement to align PALMIS with the department’s operating model. PALMIS will provide strong oversight and reporting which will support the Australian Government’s plan to Build a Stronger Pacific Family, uphold worker protections, and address unmet labour needs in regional and rural Australia. |
| Reconnection, Employment and Learning Program | Active | 76.2 | 8.6 | 31 Dec 2026 | This project supports the implementation of Reconnection, Employment and Learning (REAL) Program that is replacing the Time to Work Employment Service (TWES). The REAL Program is a voluntary program that will support First Nations prisoners aged 15 years and over to transition from the justice system into employment. As part of the project, the department is also seeking changes to the Capability Building Fund (that supports new employment service providers) in order to support REAL providers to fulfil the department’s requirements for accreditation in the department’s ICT cyber security protection arrangements, so that they can access the Workforce Australia Digital Platform (WADP). |
| Time to Work Employment Service - Extension | Closed | 5.7 | 0.4 | 30 Jun 2024 | This project supported the extension of the Time to Work Employment Service (TWES) in non-remote areas for 12 months to 30 June 2024, with a new program being introduced from 1 July 2025. The TWES supported First Nations prisoners to connect with employment services and to help more First Nations prisoners move from prison to paid work. The TWES in non-remote areas ceased on 30 June 2024. |
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| Project name | DCA 2024 | DCA 2025 | Delivery status | Total budget ($ million) | Digital budget ($ million) | Project end date | Project description |
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| Election Systems Modernisation Program (Indigo) | Medium-High | Medium-High | Active | NFP | NFP | 30 Jun 2030 | The Indigo Program aims to modernise the AEC’s core ICT infrastructure and systems to deliver integrated, secure, and modern electoral services that meet community needs and expectations into the future. The replacement of legacy systems with modern technology and infrastructure will enhance and bolster the AEC’s ability to manage security risks and strengthen Australia’s ongoing democratic resilience. Tranche 1 has been delivered, and Tranche 2A is scheduled to be completed in 2027. The final tranche of the Program (Tranche 2B) will be subject to government consideration as part of the 2027-28 Budget context. Tranche 2B is projected to be completed in 2030. |
| Project name | DCA 2024 | DCA 2025 | Delivery status | Total budget ($ million) | Digital budget ($ million) | Project end date | Project description |
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| Polling Place Technology | Medium-High | Medium | Active | 15.5 | 15.5 | 30 Jun 2025 | Enhanced technology to enable expansion of voter and polling coverage of polling place technology (up to 10,000 ECL devices –Electronic Certified Lists (ECLs) are portable computers deployed to polling places as a replacement to paper certified lists). The program is trialling a digital officer in charge return at selected polling locations. |
| Project name | DCA 2024 | DCA 2025 | Delivery status | Total budget ($ million) | Digital budget ($ million) | Project end date | Project description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Digital ID Program | Medium-High | Medium-High | Active | 460.5 | 187.8 | 30 Jun 2026 | The Digital ID program aims to provide Australians with a secure, convenient, voluntary and inclusive way to prove their identity online. Key components include a legislative framework, an Accreditation Scheme, and the Australian Government Digital Identity System (AGDIS). The program will also focus on increasing public awareness and adoption across government and private sectors. |
| Project name | DCA 2024 | DCA 2025 | Delivery status | Total budget ($ million) | Digital budget ($ million) | Project end date | Project description |
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| Parliamentary Expenses Management System (PEMS) Enhancement Project | Medium | Active | 11.2 | 10.6 | 30 Jun 2026 | The Parliamentary Expenses Management System (PEMS) is a digital solution for the management and reporting of HR and payroll, as well as office and travel expenses for Parliamentarians, their staff, and the administering agencies. The Enhancement Project is a 2-year initiative that will deliver improvements and efficiencies to PEMS functionality. |
| Project name | Delivery status | Total budget ($ million) | Digital budget ($ million) | Project end date | Project description |
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| Improving transparency of procurement data to support the Buy Australian Plan | Active | 10.6 | 6.0 | 30 Jun 2027 | This initiative supports the implementation of the Buy Australian Plan by improving the transparency of Australian Government procurement activity through enhanced AusTender capabilities including the establishment of a dedicated and integrated panel supplier portal; and improving AusTender reporting capability to increase transparency. |
| SDO Security and Reliability | Active | 12.0 | 12.0 | 30 Jun 2025 | The Security and Reliability program will deliver necessary ICT upgrades to maintain the security and reliability of the Service Delivery Office (SDO) systems which provide corporate shared services to 15 client entities across the Australian Public Service. |