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Treasonous Liberals forcing govt jobs offshore
Jul 28th, 2018 at 11:10am
 
The NSW Liberal government is once again demonstrating that the Liberals are obsessed with the price and have no concept of value. They are forcing bidders to export government jobs offshore, in an act of treason against Australians. Next time someone whines about unemployed workers not getting jobs, or complains about Australia's foreign aid Budget, show them this:

NSW Government's secret plan to give one in three IT jobs to INDIA to keep costs down

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* NSW Roads and Maritime Services agency is taking bids for a 7-year contract
* It has demanded bidding companies employ at least 30% of workers overseas
* The plan is to reduce costs to use up as little of taxpayers' money as possible
* Two Indian companies have made the shortlist and submitted their revised bids

The New South Wales government wants companies bidding for a big IT contract to employ a third of their workers overseas to keep costs low and save Australian taxpayers' money.

The state's Roads and Maritime Services agency is taking bids for a massive seven-year contract.

In its Request for Proposal document, the agency demands that bidding firms employ 20 per cent of their workers are overseas in year one, rising to 30 per cent in year two.

The document sent on February 13 explains this is to reduce costs to use up as little of Australian taxpayers' money as possible.

'RMS is seeking to achieve the lowest possible cost to provide the Services,' it says.

Two Indian companies - Tata Consultancy Services and Wipro Ltd - have made the shortlist and submitted a more detailed offering to the agency in May, according to The Daily Telegraph.

Employing IT workers in India is up to 10 times cheaper than in Australia which has a high-wage economy. 

A section of the government's Request for Proposal document titled Offshore Resourcing asks for 'a measured ongoing ­app­roach to increase offshore efforts over the contract term.'

It says it wants bidding companies to be 'materially reducing costs by streamlining the applications suite, leveraging public cloud infrastructure and ­increasing automation.

'Use of offshore resourcing ­(initially 20 per cent of total contract effort being offshore) with gradual increase over the contract term is ­expected to support the contractor to provide services at the possible lowest cost.'

Opposition Leader Luke Foley called the proposal a 'disgrace' and said the Berejiklian government was 'betraying' Australian workers.

An RMS spokesman said the bidding process was confidential. Roads Minister Melinda Pavey declined to comment.

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