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Search to continue today for missing 18-year-old swimmer

Rescue officials are set to continue their search for a missing 18-year-old on NSW’s mid north coast.

There was no contingency provided for this program when it was originally funded. So to actually only go 15% over despite Covid and the extension of the program overall was seen through those reviews as consistent.

This may well be a contract that demonstrates the need for greater oversight … of consultants and greater use of public sector capacity wherever possible.

We did actually have quite strong governance over the projects. They had contract managers there were steering committees there were meetings with the vendors there was project control groups that had external members on them and then we had the eight gateway reviews and external DTA reviews as well and that all fed up into how those contracts were managed.

And never once did we get any commentary or recommendations from those reviews that related to how we manage those contracts.

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