About the Digital Assurance Framework

The magnitude of the State's ambitious ICT and digital investment means that a focus on ensuring major projects are delivered in a timely and cost-efficient way is critical. To ensure there is better oversight of the state's ICT and digital investments, the NSW Government has implemented the Digital Assurance Framework (PDF, 1.11 MB).

The objective of the DAF is to ensure NSW Government's digital projects are delivered on time and on budget through the implementation of a risk-based independent assurance framework.

The DAF applies to the State's capital and recurrent funded digital projects with a value of $5 million and above, being developed, procured or delivered by General Government agencies, Government Businesses, and State Owned Corporations. This assurance process provides a level of confidence to the nominated sub-committees of Cabinet that the State's digital projects are being effectively developed and delivered in accordance with the Government's objectives.

The DAF consists of two main components:

• Expert and independent Gateway Reviews, Health Checks and Deep Dive Reviews
• Regular project reporting based on inputs provided by delivery agencies

This tiered, risk-based approach to the assurance evaluating ensures that the focus is on the most important and complex projects. The process is confidential to each project, and advice is provided to the NSW Government, as the investor, through regular reporting. This approach enables “red flags” to be raised and an opportunity for interventions to be ordered to ensure projects are delivered on-time, on-budget, and in accordance with the NSW Government's objectives.

The DAF is part of the Gateway Coordination Framework under the NSW Gateway Policy. The NSW Gateway Policy is administered by NSW Treasury.

Questions or comments?

For more information on project assurance managed by Digital Investment and Assurance email ictassurance@customerservice.nsw.gov.au.