Another company which lost the contract to provide Victoria's public transport ticketing system has called for an urgent review of the tender process, saying it lacked rigour and transparency.
This smells like corruption though, asking a bidder to raise their price to make the preferred bidder win the contract. I honestly can't remember, were these shenanigans going on with the original Myki tender too?
I can't find a source but it was decided that the original Myki should be built as a custom solution at a greater expense and with a slower rollout even though there were already off-the-shelf solutions that were working around the world that would have been faster and cheaper to implement.