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ANAO Audit & the OneSKY/Thales trough that keeps on giving?

Still waiting on the ANAO audit report, according to the webpage they have only two working days (today & Monday) to make public:

Airservices Australia's Procurement of the International Centre for Complex Project Management to Assist with the OneSKY Australia Project
Report preparation
Contribution has closed
Due to table: May, 2016

Portfolio: Infrastructure and Regional Development

Entity: Airservices Australia

Contact: Please direct enquiries relating to reports through our contact page.

The audit objective is to examine whether Airservices Australia has effective procurement arrangements in place, with a particular emphasis on whether consultancy contracts entered into with International Centre for Complex Project Management (ICCPM) in association with the OneSKY Australia project were effectively administered.

  
Of course there is a possibility that because of the DD election that the report will be delayed till the new government takes up office. Although theoretically ASA is independent of government influence and has it's own board that provides governance & oversight, so there should be no real excuse to delay. That is of course depending on there being no outstanding issues that require further ANAO investigation...
   

While on the subject of OneSKY/Thales etc. and the seemingly incestuous relationship with not only ASA but the Defence department, unfortunately I have been a little slow on the uptake but some 3 weeks ago the Australian Independent Media Network published the following short article - Why are we still searching for Flight MH370 . Which included links to two Kangaroo Court articles:

I’m sure I’m not the only one with this burning question, “why did Abbott insist on using tax payers money on a futile search?”

About a week ago I received two emails with links to the following articles:
Bribery allegations against Australia’s $50 billion submarine contract winner
Australian Senate corruption inquiry investigating $50 Billion Submarine contract winner

The first article was the entree to solving my burning question and in the second article  (third paragraph) there is a link titled ‘tipped off‘ which leads one to the AuntyPru website where upon reading I came across a comment that the search vessels for MH370 was conducting surveys of the ocean floors and asked who is going to benefit from this massive survey.

Which I confess to again totally missing (I am sorry Shane ), no excuse but between having to work for a crust, the Tamworth rally and the calling of the election, I was somewhat swamped at the time. However the following is a quote from part of the 2nd excellent KC article (please visit the site to read full article & donate to help SD also earn a crust -  ):

This has been known to the federal government for quite a while as they started their Senate investigation in 2014 and also had hearings last year. The Australian reported in September 2015:

In the public part of that hearing, Sir Angus admitted to some problems with a “perception” of conflicts of interest associated with the $1.5 billion program to integrate the nation’s civilian and military air-traffic-control systems, known as OneSKY.

These included a “husband and wife team” on opposite sides of a transaction between Airser­vices and the International Centre for Complex Project Manage­ment, the consultancy group it engaged in a multi-million-dollar contract to advise it on OneSKY.
Senators also pointed to the fact Chris Jenkins, the managing director of Thales Australia, is also chairman of ICCPM, which employs former Royal Australian Air Force officer Harry Bradford on an Airservices contract worth $1 million so far to negotiate on Airservices’ behalf with Thales. (Click here to read more)

The Senate enquiry apparently hasn’t stopped the ICCPM rorting with Airservices Australia but with the National Audit Office due to report this month let’s wait and see what happens with it.

The corrupt dealings between Airservices Australia, ICCPM and Thales is almost identical to DCNS appointing former Liberal Party crony Sean Costello as CEO of DCNS to negotiate the $50 billion Submarine deal as I reported last post. And it must be remembered that Thales is accused of bribing the Malaysians over $100 million in a contract worth $2 billion. So if bribery is going on here how much would it be worth? (Click here to read more)

  
Perhaps the issues highlighted by KC would be another possible reason for the ANAO to reflect and stall/obfuscate till at least some of the dust has settled from the election...

MTF...P2