Bureau of Meteorology
Federal GovernmentFederal weather and climate forecasting.
Outsourcing Vendors
8
Total Contracts
8
Work Performed In
In Plain English
- Bureau of Meteorology has 8 outsourcing vendor relationships recorded on AusTender.
- Accenture, on panel (AusTender 2007-2025).
- Deloitte, on panel (AusTender 2007-2025).
- Leidos, on panel (AusTender 2007-2025).
- DXC Technology, on panel (AusTender 2007-2025).
- KPMG, on panel (AusTender 2007-2025).
- PwC, on panel (AusTender 2007-2025).
- EY, on panel (AusTender 2007-2025).
- IBM, on panel (AusTender 2007-2025).
Based on data from public sources at the dates reported. Figures may not reflect current headcount. See sources below for full attribution.
The Story
- November 2025BOM's general manager Matt Collopy insisted on ABC radio that "the figure that we put out publicly, that this redesign costs $4.1 million, is accurate." The ABC noted the $4.1M covered only the front-end design, not the $78M+ content management system underneath it. [ABC News]
- November 2025Minister Murray Watt avoided questions about the cost, describing the BOM as "a great Australian institution." The BOM's broader IT transformation program "Robust" ran for seven years at a cost of $866 million. [ABC News]
- October 2025The redesigned website finally launched, six years after the contract was signed. It was widely criticised for removing popular features and replacing the precise fire danger scale (0-100) with a generic red badge. BOM was ordered to fix it after a torrent of complaints. [ABC News]
- October 2025BOM publicly claimed the website redesign cost $4.1 million. ABC News revealed the Accenture CMS contract alone was $78 million, and with additional contractors working alongside Accenture staff, the true cost could be as high as $150 million. [ABC News]
- July 2024BOM's written answer to the Senate: the cost increases were due to "dependency delays due to ICT infrastructure and environment availability, extensions of the contract utilising planned and existing contract options and additional technology integration interface work." [Senate Estimates QoN SQ24-000491]
- 2024The total project cost was revealed as $96.5 million, still before the website launched. Accenture received $78 million (2.5x the original $31M). Deloitte received $35 million (3x the original $11M). Senator David Pocock called it "a nightmare in contract failure." [The Nightly]
- 2024Analysis found that removing technical resources from the Bureau and replacing them with global consulting firms meant BOM lacked the expertise to govern the project. Idle Accenture resources waiting on Deloitte drove costs up further. [reinteractive]
- May 2024In Senate Estimates, before the website had even launched, Senator Barbara Pocock questioned the BOM director: "The original value was $31 million. Since then, there have been eight amendments which have steadily increased the value to over $58 million." The director could not explain the near-doubling and took the question on notice. [Senate Estimates]
- 2019The Bureau of Meteorology contracted Accenture to build a new digital channels platform. Original contract value: $31 million. Deloitte was also engaged at a forecast cost of $11 million. [reinteractive]
All facts sourced from public reporting. No editorial commentary. Click source links to verify.
Consultancy Engagements
| Vendor | Type | Contract Value | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accenture | Managed Services | On panel | Confirmed |
| Deloitte | Consulting | On panel | Confirmed |
| Leidos | Managed Services | On panel | Confirmed |
| DXC Technology | Managed Services | On panel | Confirmed |
| KPMG | Managed Services | On panel | Confirmed |
| PwC | Managed Services | On panel | Confirmed |
| EY | Managed Services | On panel | Confirmed |
| IBM | Managed Services | On panel | Confirmed |
What Public Sources Say
All information below is sourced from publicly available documents and reporting. Excerpts are direct quotes. Click source links to verify.
“All Commonwealth Government contracts over $10,000 published on AusTender since 1 July 2007.”
“Accenture received $78 million for the BOM website, despite the original contract forecasting just $31 million.”
“Deloitte received $35 million for its work on the BOM site instead of the original $11 million forecasted. Idle resources within Accenture were waiting for work to be completed by Deloitte, driving costs up.”
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This list is not complete, and never will be
If a company isn't listed here, that doesn't mean it doesn't offshore. And every number is the lowest we can prove, so the real figures can often be higher.
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This list is not complete, and never will be
If a company isn't listed here, that doesn't mean it doesn't offshore. And every number is the lowest we can prove, so the real figures can often be higher.
This started as an ASX 200 project and mostly still is. It has widened as stories landed from outside that list, so it now also covers employers that aren't ASX-listed, like Canva, Allianz Australia, SS&C and Crown Resorts, along with government departments and agencies. Companies get added when something surfaces about them, not by working through a list in order.
Australian companies are under no obligation to disclose where their work is done, and there is no register of offshored jobs. Everything here comes from something that surfaced publicly: an annual report, a modern slavery statement, a news article, a union statement, a government contract, or a tip from someone who was there.
So an absence usually means nobody has reported on that company and we haven't got to it yet, not that it keeps its work onshore. Some of the biggest offshorers say nothing at all. And because each figure counts only what a source actually stated, the real numbers can often run higher, sometimes much higher.
Every figure links to the source it came from, so you can judge it yourself rather than take our word for it. If you know something that is missing or wrong, tell us. Corrections are published, not quietly buried.
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