Audit office criticises how home affairs handled tender process for multimillion-dollar contract but makes no finding against former minister
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The former Morrison government minister Stuart Robert met with a preferred tenderer for a home affairs contract before contract negotiations began, “contrary to the probity plan and protocols”, the auditor general has found.
Robert’s meeting with the preferred tenderer for a new system to help streamline visas and security clearances was mentioned in a report tabled to the parliament on Wednesday that made no finding against him.
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