Category: AI Governance & Procurement

Guidance for evaluating enterprise AI providers: governance controls, data handling, security evidence and commercial fit. These articles cover what to ask an AI vendor before a contract is signed, how Australian obligations under the Privacy Act and emerging assurance standards shape those questions, and where AI procurement differs from ordinary software buying. Written for teams weighing a first deployment as well as those replacing a pilot with something production grade.

Procuring Industrial Robots and Physical AI in Australia: Safety, Data and Contract Terms

How to procure industrial robots and physical AI in Australia: who carries safety responsibility, which ISO 10218 edition applies, who owns data and trained models, and what the contract should say.

Vendor-Neutral Procurement for Cybersecurity and AI Projects: What Neutral Means in Practice

What vendor-neutral procurement means for cybersecurity and AI projects in Australia: five working rules, how advisers are paid, and which conflicts to ask about.

How to Evaluate Cybersecurity and AI Vendors in Australia: Eight Steps

Eight steps to evaluate cybersecurity and AI vendors for an Australian enterprise, the obligations that shape requirements, and the evidence to ask every vendor for.

Can AI Kill Us? Five Predictions to 2030 and What They Mean for Procurement

Not by 2030, and not the way the question implies. Five dated predictions on AI risk, each with its evidence and its falsifier, and what they change about how Australian organisations buy AI-enabled products.

AI procurement guardrails in Australia: what to require when the law does not

Australia decided not to regulate artificial intelligence with a dedicated Act. That decision is often read as a reduction in obligation. For an organisation buying an AI system, it is the opposite. When no regulator sets a control standard for the vendor, the only place those controls can exist is the contract you sign and […]

Automated Decision-Making Transparency: What APP 1.7 Means for Your Vendor Contracts

From 10 December 2026, Australian Privacy Principle 1.7 requires organisations to disclose how computer programs use personal information to make decisions that significantly affect people. The duty stays with the buyer, not the software vendor, which makes it a contract and tender problem.

Enterprise AI Vendor Selection Criteria: A Practical Framework for Australian Decision Owners

Five evidence lenses for an enterprise AI vendor evaluation. Data Governance and Privacy Where your data is processed and stored, whether it is used to train the vendor’s models, data residency and sovereignty commitments, and alignment with the Australian Privacy Principles. This is the single most common gap in AI vendor contracts reviewed after the […]

Enterprise AI Risks and How Procurement Reduces Them

Artificial intelligence is now embedded in the core of enterprise operations, from procurement analytics to security tooling and customer service. The promise of efficiency, though, arrives with a complex set of risks. For procurement, IT and security leaders in Australia, managing enterprise AI risk is a security question and also a matter of governance, ethics, […]

How to Evaluate AI Security Tools Before You Buy

Most security tools now claim to use AI. This guide shows how to separate each AI feature from the product, measure what it improves, and control how it uses your data.