Victoria's anti-corruption body has alleged that a group of senior education officials and software salesmen planned to make gains from the failed Ultranet, a state-wide education intranet that was supposed to make things easier for parents and students.

The Independent Broad-based Commission Against Corruption tabled a report in the state parliament on Friday, detailing numerous improper actions and acts by senior staff of the Department of Education and Training that corrupted the Ultranet tender process, and wasted millions of dollars of taxpayers’ money.

The Ultranet was designed to be an online teaching and learning platform for all Victorian government schools.

The project was begun in 2006 and was described as an online learning portal through which schools, students and parents could access and deliver curriculum content, student reports and other information.

It was closed down in 2013 following an audit by the Victorian Auditor-General’s Office.

The eventual cost of the Ultranet is unknown, with estimates ranging from $127 million to $240 million.

IBAC's investigation, under the name Operation Durham, began in August 2014. It investigated the tendering process, in particular the awarding of a contract to CSG Services, a private company, and found that it may have been compromised because senior officers from the Department of Education had a financial interest in that company.

It was also alleged that asking Alliance Recruitment to conduct an evaluation of the project was a means devised to corruptly inject funds into CSG and ensure its economic viability. The man behind this was named as Darrell Fraser. deputy secretary of the department's office for school education.

IBAC said it had found evidence that the Ultranet tender process "was improperly influenced and therefore corrupted" ties that senior education department officers had primarily with Oracle Corporation Australia and then with CSG.

"This investigation found that, from a position of power as a senior executive responsible for the allocation of significant funds, Mr Fraser was instrumental in manipulating procurement processes to ensure the Ultranet contract was awarded to the CSG/Oracle consortium – companies with whom he had a long-standing relationship," the report said.

iTWire contacted Oracle Australia, but the company said it had no comment on the IBAC report at the moment.