As a result of internal concerns regarding the performance of contract DOH 27210, in late November 2014, the A/Director General of WA Health, Professor Bryant Stokes, requested that the Auditor General conduct an independent review of the performance of the contract and the proposed mitigation strategies for this centralised computing services contract.

Following the completion of the review, WA Health accepts all of the recommendations and notes that it has undertaken a considerable amount of work that has led to the completion of two recommendations and significant progress towards the implementation of the others. The anticipated WA Health timelines for completion of the outstanding four (4) recommendations is considerably shorter than the timelines outlined in the Summary of Findings.

We also note that whilst the procurement and contracting landscape in WA Health has greatly improved in the last two years, the work is ongoing to deliver further reforms and improvement in the planning, coordination and control of procurement and contract management for ICT and Goods and Services.