The ABC reports #myki replacement project has the biggest IT budget blowout of all Victorian government IT projects. ($137M on a $680M budget).
I'm betting one of the key drivers is replacing field hardware. In my experience, IT project managers cannot conceptualise how much field hardware costs to install at thousands of brownfield remote sites, especially if this drives their "bid price" when competitively bidding to upgrade a system.
A better way might be to budget for a Myki core IT systems project to provide billing and customer interaction systems as well as template for each model of reader and gate, and then have multiple civil engineering projects for the site installs.
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