WA Govt puts the breaks on shared procurement services

06 Jan 2011

Source  Delimiter
Western Australian Premier Colin Barnett has hit the pause button on one critical aspect of the state’s Shared Corporate Services project, pending a further review into what the Liberal leader described as “teething problems”.

The overarching project was initiated in late 2003 with the aim of consolidating financial, procurement and human resources back-office functions out of public sector agencies and into the arms of three shared services centres, aiming to cut some $55 million out of Western Australia’s annual $315 million corporate services bill in the process.

However, like other shared services projects in states such as Queensland, the project has suffered a number of problems over the years, being plagued by what the state’s auditor-general has described as inadequate governance arrangements, complex software development problems, turnover of staff and more.

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