recommended a broader examination of gifts from vendors<\/a>, reconciled against declarations from 113 federal entities.<\/p>\nThe results of that analysis were quietly published late on Friday.<\/p>\n
No major red flags were detected.<\/p>\n
AWS, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Rimini Street, SAP, Salesforce, ServiceNow and Data#3 were all asked to report \u201cgift\u201d offers they made to federal government staff.<\/p>\n
These figures were then matched up to departmental and agency self-reporting.<\/p>\n
Overall, 3662 offers of \u201cgifts and benefits\u201d were made, of which 539 – or 15 percent – were accepted and the remaining 3123 were declined.<\/p>\n
While this may sound like a lot, one vendor – ServiceNow – was responsible for 94 percent of the offers.<\/p>\n
These appeared to be almost exclusively invitations to \u201clarge conference-style events\u201d that were bulk emailed to a federal government database, and only 148 out of 3153 mailed offers were accepted.<\/p>\n
IBM also made a significant number of offers – 467 – of which 354 were accepted, and 113 declined.<\/p>\n
Other vendors either only made offers in the small single-digits across the year, or – in the case of Rimini Street and Salesforce – made no offers at all.<\/p>\n
The DTA found the offers were mostly just related to conference attendance or other professional development opportunities associated with that particular vendor ecosystem.<\/p>\n
\u201cAccepted offers were mainly associated with conferences, industry events, professional development, training or hospitality connected to legitimate business engagement,\u201d DTA said.<\/p>\n
It added that \u201csome offers that would generally be unacceptable, such as sporting match tickets, were identified in seller data, but all relevant reported cases were declined.\u201d<\/p>\n
The DTA is hoping to continue to receive data from the vendors on an ongoing basis.<\/p>\n
It said that running the analysis had, in its opinion, \u201cinfluenced behaviour\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe prospective collection process encouraged more deliberate consideration of offers by sellers and [government] employees,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Federal government staff largely turned down \u201cgifts\u201d from nine of the largest IT vendors in the year to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,63,105],"class_list":["post-797351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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