Accenture

BOM awarded Accenture $16M for climate data website. Previous Accenture contract started at $4M, blew out to $96M, and failed during major storms. Senator Whish-Wilson: "The last Accenture contract with the BoM website was a diabolical shitshow."

Accenture is now the largest consultancy working for government. Federal contracts total $6.5 billion since 2013. Nine major consulting firms shared $17.6 billion in federal contracts. Accenture CEO Peter Burns admitted to Senate committee that the firm does "power mapping" — systematically charting who holds influence inside government departments.

Federal government extended Accenture aged care contract by $332M in December 2025. Initial contract $258.5M, now $590.5M total. Part of $1.4B aged care digital overhaul. Accenture paid $500K+ per day for 2 years.

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.

Accenture received $78 million for the BOM website, despite the original contract forecasting just $31 million.

Accenture, which built the BOM website, has major development centres in India and the Philippines.

Union hits out at proposed offshoring of ATO test & dev By Paris Cowan Sep 12 2014 12:34PM 7 Tax Office insists no financial data will be stored overseas. Australia’s public service union has kicked up a stink over a proposal being assessed by the Tax Office that would see its application development and testing sent to the Philippines. The ATO has confirmed that it is thinking about handing its test and dev functions to Accenture, which already undertakes hundreds of millions of dolla

Rio Tinto partnered with Accenture for cloud-based as-a-service model.

Accenture has been paid more than $100 million for PCEHR infrastructure support, and another $111 million for data warehousing.