DB Results’ RFT Submission, Tender Evaluation, Risk Assessment and Conflict of Interest Declaration/s (NDIA Mobile Application)
Dear National Disability Insurance Agency,
Please provide copies of:
1. The NDIA’s Mobile Application Request for Tender (RFT)
2. The NDIA’s tender evaluation of DB Result’s submission
3. The NDIA’s procurement risk assessment of DB Results’ submission
4. The NDIA’s conflict of interest register specific to DB Results
5. The NDIA’s vendor/third-party provider risk assessment
6. Contract amendments, design variance, or changed requirements (mobile application)
7. Cybersecurity risk assessment (mobile application)
Context:
It has been widely reported that the NDIA has been building a mobile application for participants [1]. Reports also claim the NDIA has spent $1.55 million as of February 2021 [2] on the development and creation of the NDIS app. DB Results [3] has been named as one of five suppliers in this mobile app development [2], sharing in the reported $250,000 per month in costs for the application that currently is used by a paltry 422 participants [4] of the nearly 400,000 total participant population [5]. Remembering, ‘participant’ is a simple classifier describing a complex and diverse array of people with disability/ies, many of them children. So diverse, the NDIS and Allied health professionals have developed 400 profiles from just 4,000 participants sampled during recent Independent Assessments (IA) [6]. However, the mobile app’s primary function seems to be that of funding and financial management [7]. It is therefore unclear how many actual users will need, prefer or be able to access the NDIS app. Notwithstanding those living remotely, cultural and linguistically diverse (CALD) [6] or those without internet connection or a compatible device/s.
It would seem DB Results has had key technical people embedded within influential positions within the NDIA for years. According to their website, in August 2018, DB Results embedded lead user experience (UX) individual/s at the NDIA [8] for 6 months. This appears to be a standing if not on-going arrangement. DB Results were paid $614,004.80 for temporary staffing and recruitment [9] during the calendar year of 2020. Therefore, it appears that DB Results is not only providing contract staff, conducting recruitment but also influencing (if not directing) technical decision making at the NDIA, possibly inclusive of procurement, development and management of projects, including the mobile application, which they are a provider for also [1]. This presents as a considerable conflict of interest (actual and perceived) if not proactively management or de-risked. Especially, noting that DB Results do not have ‘mobile application development’ specifically listed as ‘approved categories’ on the Digital Transformation Agency’s (DTA) ‘Buy ICT’ online marketplace [10]. Specific, supporting information would aid in clarifying if not untangling these complex issues.
Thank you for your assistance.
Yours faithfully,
Shirley
References:
1. Barbaschow, A. (2021) Senators concerned NDIS app will become another COVIDSafe million dollar ‘success’, dated 31 Mar 21. Available at: < https://www.zdnet.com/article/senators-c...>. Accessed [4 Jun 21]
2. Ibid
3. DB results (2021) Website. Available at : <: https://dbresults.com.au/ > Accessed [10 Jun 21]
4. Barbaschow, A. (2021) Nearly AU$250,000 spent per month on staff costs to develop NDIS app, dated 31 May 21. Available at: < https://www.zdnet.com/article/nearly-au2...>. Accessed [4 Jun 21]
5. NDIS (2020) Annual Report 2019-20, National Disability Insurance Agency, Australian Government. Available at: < https://www.ndis.gov.au/media/2724/downl...>. Accessed [7 Jun 21]
6. NDIS (2021) Working out personalised budgets, National Disability Agency, Australian Government, dated 3 Jun 21. Available at: < https://www.ndis.gov.au/about-us/improvi...>. Accessed 12 Jun 21]
7. Macarthur Plan Managers (2021) NDIS Funding Mobile App: Australian’s that are living with disability now have access to view their NDIS Funding information in real-time with our free mobile app. Available at: <https://www.macarthurplanmanagers.com.au...>. Accessed [12 Jun 21]
8. Martin, M. (2018) Bias for biases, DB Results, dated 23 Aug 2018. Available at: < https://dbresults.com.au/bias-for-biases/>. Accessed [12 Jun 21]
9. NDIS (2020) Sentate Order 13: 2020 Calendar Year, National Disability Insurance Agency, Australian Government, Available at: < Senate Order for Entity Contracts Listing Relating to the period 1 January 2020 to 30 December 2020 (PDF 1MB)>. Accessed [10 Jun 21]
10. Australian Government (2021) DB Results, Buy ICT, Digital Marketplace, Digital Transformation Agency, Australian Government. Available at: < https://www.buyict.gov.au/sp?id=seller_d...>. Accessed [12 Jun 21]
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Our reference: RQ21/02152
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Shirley
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Extension of time application by the National Disability Insurance Agency
Dear Shirley
I write to advise that on 9 August 2021, the Office of the Australian
Information Commissioner (the OAIC) received an application from the
National Disability Insurance Agency (the NDIA) for an extension of time
to process your FOI request made on 12 June 2021, titled:
1. DB Results’ RFT Submission, Tender Evaluation, Risk Assessment and
Conflict of Interest Declaration/s (NDIA Mobile Application)
The NDIA has advised the OAIC that you agreed to an extension of time to
process the request under s 15AA of the FOI Act to 11 August 2021 (OAIC
reference RQ21/02160).
The NDIA has applied for an extension of time under s 15AB of the Freedom
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complex and voluminous.
· The NDIA has advised the OAIC that:
− the request is broadly scoped and covers both current and historical
documents
− the request seeks access to documents of a highly sensitive and
complex nature from multiple business areas
− the NDIA is engaged in a significant amount of consultation with
multiple stakeholders to ensure it has appropriately identified documents
within scope, and determine whether it needs to further engage with you
− searches for historic material have been complex as ICT
infrastructure has changed over time and other Commonwealth agencies hold
the archived material, and
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The NDIA has requested an extension to 10 September 2021. I will take any
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Please find attached correspondence in relation to your request.
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Dear foi,
I contest the the charge has been wrongly assessed.
1. It has taken 90 days to receive this notification, 60 days past the prescribed 30 day FOI statute. It should therefore be a reasonable assumption that document archiving and retrieval is sub optimal within your Agency. Tax payers should therefore not be charged twice for in-efficiencies. Myself included.
2. Each of these requests were submitted individually. It was entirely an arbitrary decision to cluster them into a single enquiry. Making more work for yourself, thus over stating the work requirement.
3. The NDIA mobile application is a very recent endeavour, therefore documentation should be readily accessible and retrievable. The NDIA CEO and Oliver Bladek were questioned about this application within the past few months at a senate estimates hearing, also noting the recency of documentation and files. While they 'took the question on notice', the issue was a matter of public tender. Again, documentation should be readily accessible and 'top of mind'. Lengthy internal discussions and cost recovery objectives would therefore seem unreasonable.
4. 14 documents should not require 4 hrs electronic retrieval. Poor systems, processes and capabilities should not be a cost recovery exercise from government to tax payers.
5. It is inconceivable any organisation or department would require 24 hrs to 'think' about this request or the documentation. Should staff wish to lament the limitations of internal systems, complexity of public service life or any other random subject during the 90 day period upon which this request remained open, it is an unrelated correlation as a recoverable expenditure. In short, the 24 hrs of staff time/ sheet tracking claimed in relation to this request is unreasonable and unjustified, by even the broadest of terms.
6. Noting the NDIA does not have a policy or procedure for determining what is 'substantial and unreasonable diversion of resources' (FOI 21/22-007), provisional estimates and costing provided here present as very coarse estimates, unsubstantiated and unwarranted. A guess. As a result, this estimate is contestable.
While I can appreciate how other requests and information may take time and resources to consolidate, that does not appear to be the case in this instance.
I thank you for your consideration.
Yours sincerely,
Shirley
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Dear Shirley
We write to acknowledge your correspondence dated 12 September 2021 where
you contend that the preliminary assessment of charge contained in the
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We will consider your request under section 29(4) of the Freedom of
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-----Original Message-----
From: Shirley <[4][FOI #7463 email]>
Sent: Sunday, 12 September 2021 4:29 PM
To: foi <[5][NDIA request email]>
Subject: Internal review of Freedom of Information request - DB Results’
RFT Submission, Tender Evaluation, Risk Assessment and Conflict of
Interest Declaration/s (NDIA Mobile Application)
Dear foi,
I contest the the charge has been wrongly assessed.
1. It has taken 90 days to receive this notification, 60 days past the
prescribed 30 day FOI statute. It should therefore be a reasonable
assumption that document archiving and retrieval is sub optimal within
your Agency. Tax payers should therefore not be charged twice for
in-efficiencies. Myself included.
2. Each of these requests were submitted individually. It was entirely an
arbitrary decision to cluster them into a single enquiry. Making more work
for yourself, thus over stating the work requirement.
3. The NDIA mobile application is a very recent endeavour, therefore
documentation should be readily accessible and retrievable. The NDIA CEO
and Oliver Bladek were questioned about this application within the past
few months at a senate estimates hearing, also noting the recency of
documentation and files. While they 'took the question on notice', the
issue was a matter of public tender. Again, documentation should be
readily accessible and 'top of mind'. Lengthy internal discussions and
cost recovery objectives would therefore seem unreasonable.
4. 14 documents should not require 4 hrs electronic retrieval. Poor
systems, processes and capabilities should not be a cost recovery exercise
from government to tax payers.
5. It is inconceivable any organisation or department would require 24 hrs
to 'think' about this request or the documentation. Should staff wish to
lament the limitations of internal systems, complexity of public service
life or any other random subject during the 90 day period upon which this
request remained open, it is an unrelated correlation as a recoverable
expenditure. In short, the 24 hrs of staff time/ sheet tracking claimed in
relation to this request is unreasonable and unjustified, by even the
broadest of terms.
6. Noting the NDIA does not have a policy or procedure for determining
what is 'substantial and unreasonable diversion of resources' (FOI
21/22-007), provisional estimates and costing provided here present as
very coarse estimates, unsubstantiated and unwarranted. A guess. As a
result, this estimate is contestable.
While I can appreciate how other requests and information may take time
and resources to consolidate, that does not appear to be the case in this
instance.
I thank you for your consideration.
Yours sincerely,
Shirley
-----Original Message-----
Dear Shirley
Thank you for your request for information.
Please find attached correspondence in relation to your request.
Please contact us at [1][NDIA request email] if you have any questions or
require help.
Kind regards
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Parliamentary, Ministerial and FOI Branch
Government Division
National Disability Insurance Agency
E: [2][NDIA request email]
[3]Title: NDIS delivered by the National Disability Insurance Agency
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Dear Shirley
Please find attached correspondence in response to your contention of
charges of FOI 20/21-0876.
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Further help
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-----Original Message-----
From: Shirley <[FOI #7463 email]>
Sent: Sunday, 12 September 2021 4:29 PM
To: foi <[NDIA request email]>
Subject: Internal review of Freedom of Information request - DB Results’
RFT Submission, Tender Evaluation, Risk Assessment and Conflict of
Interest Declaration/s (NDIA Mobile Application)
Dear foi,
I contest the the charge has been wrongly assessed.
1. It has taken 90 days to receive this notification, 60 days past the
prescribed 30 day FOI statute. It should therefore be a reasonable
assumption that document archiving and retrieval is sub optimal within
your Agency. Tax payers should therefore not be charged twice for
in-efficiencies. Myself included.
2. Each of these requests were submitted individually. It was entirely an
arbitrary decision to cluster them into a single enquiry. Making more work
for yourself, thus over stating the work requirement.
3. The NDIA mobile application is a very recent endeavour, therefore
documentation should be readily accessible and retrievable. The NDIA CEO
and Oliver Bladek were questioned about this application within the past
few months at a senate estimates hearing, also noting the recency of
documentation and files. While they 'took the question on notice', the
issue was a matter of public tender. Again, documentation should be
readily accessible and 'top of mind'. Lengthy internal discussions and
cost recovery objectives would therefore seem unreasonable.
4. 14 documents should not require 4 hrs electronic retrieval. Poor
systems, processes and capabilities should not be a cost recovery exercise
from government to tax payers.
5. It is inconceivable any organisation or department would require 24 hrs
to 'think' about this request or the documentation. Should staff wish to
lament the limitations of internal systems, complexity of public service
life or any other random subject during the 90 day period upon which this
request remained open, it is an unrelated correlation as a recoverable
expenditure. In short, the 24 hrs of staff time/ sheet tracking claimed in
relation to this request is unreasonable and unjustified, by even the
broadest of terms.
6. Noting the NDIA does not have a policy or procedure for determining
what is 'substantial and unreasonable diversion of resources' (FOI
21/22-007), provisional estimates and costing provided here present as
very coarse estimates, unsubstantiated and unwarranted. A guess. As a
result, this estimate is contestable.
While I can appreciate how other requests and information may take time
and resources to consolidate, that does not appear to be the case in this
instance.
I thank you for your consideration.
Yours sincerely,
Shirley
-----Original Message-----
Dear Shirley
Thank you for your request for information.
Please find attached correspondence in relation to your request.
Please contact us at [1][NDIA request email] if you have any questions or
require help.
Kind regards
Freedom of Information Officer
Parliamentary, Ministerial and FOI Branch
Government Division
National Disability Insurance Agency
E: [2][NDIA request email]
[3]Title: NDIS delivered by the National Disability Insurance Agency
The NDIA acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout
Australia and their continuing connection to land, sea and community. We
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