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Back in 2016 the Australian Department of Health decided to combine the state and federal Bowel Cancer Screening registers into one register and tendered the contract for the project to Telstra. Telstra is Australia's oldest telecommunications company and lacked experience with managing public health systems. After signing the $220 million contract to build a new cancer register, Telstra promptly purchased companies with experience building health systems. After being chided by the AONO (Australian National Audit Office) for not having a plan for data security, Telstra tried and failed to bring services online, delaying the rollout until late 2019.
Now Telstra has set a date for delivery of the expensive cancer register of November 2019, with caveats for some functionality not to be delivered until 2020. So far, Telstra has received only $18 million of the $220 million promised in the contract as the Health department withholds payments as milestones are missed.
How much would you charge to build a bowel cancer registry for approximately 25 million people?
(Score: 2) by Snow on Thursday May 23 2019, @04:39PM (3 children)
That's an insane amount of money. For that much money, the system should be curing the cancer as well as registering it.
It almost as mindboggling as the potential $2.2 BILLION that Canadians are paying for a federal payroll program. [wikipedia.org]
I just can't understand it... How is that even possible?
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Thursday May 23 2019, @05:46PM
Where there's gold, the miners will flock.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Thursday May 23 2019, @09:56PM
I know, eh? They SHOULD say "No more money until it's right, and you THEN owe us some back for incompetence."
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 1) by Chocolate on Thursday May 23 2019, @11:18PM
Perhaps because Telstra is a private business that expects to make a profit.
Bit-choco-coin anyone?