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Would-be outsourcers out millions on visa processing bids
Myriam RobinRear Window editorAfter months of intrigue, recriminations and spending by all involved, acting immigration minister Alan Tudge on Friday quietly killed off the government's plans to outsource its visa processing. In the last line of a press release issued on a day no one was paying much attention.
The now-voided tender process had already cost taxpayers almost $100 million. And the issue will cost more in the long term given the government will now have to itself upgrade its outdated visa processing technology — a cost it had hoped to avoid through outsourcing.
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