In an extraordinary statement, the Western Australian Premier Colin Barnett informed the press that the OSS was “probably one of the great bungles of public administration in Western Australia.”
“This has been a very expensive and largely failed program,” he said.
Findings by the Economic Regulation Authority (ERA) suggested that the OSS was not serving its purpose, and had cost the government far more than it had saved. The savings, at A$40 million (US$42.8 milion), were A$20 million (US$21.4 million) less than anticipated.
Individual governmental agencies will go back to having a decentralised corporate services structure.
According to the OSS website, the programme was set up in response to findings in 2002 from an internal functional review. It was set up because the “model allows the Whole-of-Government to leverage economies of scale through shared resources, technology, information and processes.”
It was planned to handle financial services, human resource services, and miscellaneous administrative online services for the Western Australian public sector.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Rahul Joshi
Quelle/Source: futureGov, 11.07.2011
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