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Engagement of consultants and contractors
Consultants
Our policies on the selection and engagement of consultants are based on the Australian
Government Procurement Guidelines, Chief Executive Instructions, and government policies.
We engage consultants and contractors based on value for money, open and effective competition, and accountability and reporting.
The most common reasons for engagement of consultancy services are:
- unavailability of specialist in-house resources in the short timeframe allowed
- the need for an independent review, and
- specialist skills and knowledge not available in-house.
During 2007–08, two new consultancy contracts were entered into involving total actual expenditure of $120,947. One consultancy contract was active during the 2007–08 year, involvingtotal actual expenditure of $120,947.
A |
New contracts during the period |
2 |
B |
Total expenditure on new consultancy contracts (GST-inclusive) |
$120,947 |
C |
Number of ongoing (that is, pre-existing) consultancy contracts active during the period |
1 |
D |
Total expenditure on ongoing consultancy contracts during the period (GST-inclusive) |
$120,947 |
Consultant Name |
Nature of Services |
Contract Price
|
Selection |
Justification (2) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu |
Provision of Internal Audit Services |
$135,000 |
Select Tender |
B |
Curtin University |
Survey of Athletes Opinion |
$51,150 |
Direct Source |
C |
Explanation of selection process terms drawn from theCommonwealth Procurement Guidelines (January 2005):
Open Tender: A procurement procedure in which a request for tender is published inviting all businesses that satisfy the conditions for participation to submit tenders. Public tenders are sought from the marketplace using national and major metropolitan newspaper advertising and the Australian Government AusTender internet site.
Select Tender: A procurement procedure in which the procuring agency selects which potential suppliers are invited to submit tenders. Tenders are invited from a short list of competent suppliers.
Direct Sourcing: A form of restricted tendering, available only under certain defined circumstances, with a single potential supplier or suppliers being invited to bid because of their unique expertise and/or their special ability to supply the goods and/or services sought.
Panel: An arrangement under which a number of suppliers, usually selected through a single procurement process, may each supply property or services to an agency as specified in the panel arrangements. Tenders are sought from suppliers that have pre-qualified on the agency panels to supply to the government. This category includes standing offers and supplier panels where the consultant offers to supply goods and services for pre-determined length of time, usually at a pre-arranged price.
Justification for decision to use consultancy:
A – skills currently unavailable within agency
B – need for specialised or professional skills
C – need for independent research or assessment
A list of consultancy services valued at $10,000 or more (that we let between 1 July 2007 and 30 June 2008) is available on our website at www.asada.gov.au. Information about our expenditure on contracts and consultancies is also available on the AusTender website at www.tenders.gov.au.
Competitive tendering and contracting
Our objectives in outsourcing services are to obtain value for money, encourage innovation, and improve accountability and performance in the service delivery process, in line with the Australian Government Procurement Guidelines.
Auditor-General access
ASADA has not entered into any contracts that exclude the Auditor-General from having access
to its contractors.
Exempt contracts
There are no current contracts or standing offers that have been exempted from being published in AusTender on the basis that they would disclose exempt matters under theFreedom of Information Act 1982.