The Big Four have followed a bumper 2020 in federal public sector work with a swag of new government consulting and professional services contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars so far this year. Despite a Covid-ravaged economy, each of the Big Four of Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PwC last year managed to maintain or grow their revenues on 2019 – with lucrative government contracts a major factor in the positive figures.
Consulting spend at the federal level among the Big Four alone amounted to more than $750 million last year, with all of the firms bar PwC up by at least 20 percent in the segment – including Deloitte by almost 40 percent.
And the good times roll on. While a fair portion of last year’s boost came courtesy of the government’s Covid-response measures – PwC for example appointed the lead delivery partner for the vaccination roll-out –...MORE
