Direct link: www.buyict.gov.au/sp?id=policy
Responsible agency: Digital Transformation Agency
Last updated: 31 March 2021
The Digital sourcing framework is a set of principles, policies and guidance for government agencies buying digital products and services.
The framework promotes best practices to help agencies create a competitive and fair environment for digital sourcing and ensures procurement processes are transparent, efficient and effective.
Applicability
The Digital sourcing framework applies to non-corporate Commonwealth entities, as defined by the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013, and may be leveraged by other Commonwealth entities and companies.
Access the framework
The buyict.gov.au website hosts the Digital sourcing framework (full text).
Framework principles
Agencies should follow the best-practice principles below when sourcing digital products and services:
- encourage competition
- innovate and iterate often
- enable small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to compete fairly
- reuse components of other similar ICT projects
- be outcome-focused
- use open standards and cloud first
- minimise cyber-security risks
- avoid duplication by not building platforms other agencies have already built.