Small businesses feel excluded from Canberra’s “in-crowd” of suppliers and say competition mechanisms — including the Albanese government’s latest attempt — are being overlooked. A new paper reveals the frustrations in an $80 billion annual spend, including complaints of uncompetitive panel arrangements, an opaque tender pipeline, large companies using wholly-owned subsidiaries to exploit SME exemptions,…

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