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Melton City Council contractor handed own company over $1m of IT work


By
Justin Hendry
on Jun 9, 2021 1:00PM
Faked competitive quotes in childlike sham.
A former IT contractor at Melton City Council subverted procurement processes in order to hand one of his own companies over $1 million of IT work.
The ex-contractor, given the pseudonym ‘Mr M’, worked at the council for two-and-a-half years, during which time he directed IT work to his own company, MK Datanet.
He used “other companies he owned to provide additional, unfavourable, quotes to give the appearance that proper procurement processes were followed,” the Victorian Ombudsman Deborah Glass said following an investigation. [pdf]
“The sham was so childlike at times, Mr M even sent responses for quotes to himself under the guise of fake identities,” Glass said. ....

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