The company contracted to deliver the software for the botched Ultranet IT schools program was asked to fund a lavish trip to New York for Victorian education department officials, just three years before its tender partner won the lucrative government contract, an inquiry has heard. Emails tendered to the Independent Broad-Based Anti-Corruption Commission on Tuesday revealed that the education department's former deputy secretary Darrell Fraser demanded that global computer giant Oracle foot the bill for the business trip to New York.