{"id":184210,"date":"2025-03-09T13:39:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T03:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=184210"},"modified":"2025-03-09T13:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T03:44:09","slug":"myki-meltdown-millions-wasted-as-company-abandons-tech-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=184210","title":{"rendered":"Myki meltdown: Millions wasted as company abandons tech upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A company that was part of the troubled $1.7 billion myki upgrade has been paid millions of dollars to walk away from the project in the latest bungle to hit the system upgrade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is firmly on the shoulders of Ben Carroll who as minister approved the failed procurement process and the choice of supplier despite the department not in favour of the winning bid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In November 2024, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=148783\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">The Victorian government and Conduent<\/a> were reportedly in a legal stand-off over amendments to their contract, due to additional costs and technical work required for the upgrade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is firmly on the shoulders of Ben Carroll who as minister approved the failed procurement process and the choice of supplier despite the department not in favour of the winning bid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":177476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,47],"tags":[11587,15777,993,8],"class_list":["post-184210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-rail-news","tag-ben-carroll","tag-conduent","tag-melbourne","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184210"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184213,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184210\/revisions\/184213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/177476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}