FOI 25-0187 LD – Deloitte Report Under Tender Code CN4107799

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This FOI release contains correspondence regarding the FUTURE FIT program, a software development initiative involving Meals on Wheels services across multiple Australian states (NSW, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria). Meal service providers who contributed unfunded time and effort to developing software for this Community and Disability Services Program (CHSP) transformation project wrote to Minister Wells in February 2024 requesting the government support making the developed software open source. The services sought to prevent market distortion, vendor lock-in, and exploitation by establishing a not-for-profit governed open source community where frontline providers could collaboratively maintain control over the software's evolution while preventing commercial exploitation. The correspondence indicates concerns that without open source protection, other entities might appropriate the intellectual property developed through the collaborative government-supported initiative.