Indian BPO providers will now be able to bid for leading Australian government contracts. Earlier, federal contracts were not awarded to overseas companies in Australia because of security accreditation issues. These restrictions were recently waived after the Gershon review was presented to the Australian government; it stated that all government departments (excluding the defense department) could outsource operations to multinational companies.

Wipro Technologies, an Indian outsourcing services provider, is planning to expand Australian operations as well as bid for government contracts. Rajat Mathur, Wipro Asia-Pacific head of sales and operations, said the company is also interested in bidding for contracts from educational and financial institutions. In addition, in early November 2008, Australia-based Origin Energy selected Wipro for outsourcing its application development operations. Under the contract, Wipro will deploy an SAP billing and CRM system.