Federal efforts to reduce outsourcing across all areas of the public service face a challenge in the technology sector, where spending on contractors continues to increase.
Under the federal government's Strategic Commissioning Framework, departments have been tasked to achieve a service-wide reduction in contractor reliance, with individual agency heads required to identify core functions that should not be outsourced and establish explicit targets to transition those roles back in-house.
However, actual expenditure on information technology (IT) temporary personnel is rising in both contract volume and value.
