PwC tax leak made it harder for Australian firms to win government IT contracts, Senate hears

Vault Cloud CEO tells inquiry whole-of-government tech contracts rigged in favour of multinationals

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Federal government IT contracts are rigged in favour of multinational technology companies, with PwC’s leak of confidential government tax information making it harder for local companies to compete, local cloud provider Vault Cloud has claimed.

Vault Cloud’s CEO, Rupert Taylor-Price, told a Senate inquiry into the influence of international digital platforms on Wednesday that whole-of-government technology supply agreements had excluded Australian tech companies, with 100% of them given to multinationals.

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