Financials

Consultants

Consistent with the Commonwealth Procurement Guidelines and the Chief Executive Instructions, ASADA engage consultants and contractors on the basis of:

value for money
open and effective competition
accountability and reporting.

Typically, consultants are engaged to investigate or diagnose a defined issue or problem; carry out defined research, reviews or evaluations; provide independent advice; and provide information or creative solutions to assist ASADA manage its decision making.

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
specialist skills and knowledge not available in-house.

ASADA’s policies on the selection and engagement of consultants are based on the Commonwealth Procurement Guidelines, the Chief Executive Instructions and Government policies.

Greater responsibility and accountability is achieved by giving areas responsibility for developing requirements and managing contracts. Control mechanisms are currently being developed to ensure that all guidelines are followed.

Consultancies List

A list of consultancy services of $10,000 or greater, let between 13 March 2006 and 30 June 2006, is available with this report.

List of Consultancy Services over $10,000 [ PDF 29 Kb | RTF 42 Kb ]

Figure 14: EXPENDITURE ON NEW AND EXISTING CONTRACTS
For the period 13 March 2006 to 30 June 2006 the Authority had
A	New contracts during period	26
B	Total expenditure on new contracts (GST inclusive)	$159,798
C	Number of ongoing (that is pre-existing) contracts active during the period	15
D	Total expenditure on ongoing contracts during period (GST inclusive)	$410,674

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Competitive tendering and contracting

With ASADA’s move to being governed by the FMA Act, ASADA is currently undertaking a review of its tendering procedures.

ASADA’s 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 Commonwealth Procurement Guidelines.

Current Authority contracts with service providers worth $100,000 or more are listed below.

Figure 15: SERVICE PROVIDER CONTRACTS OVER $100,000
Contractor	Nature of services	Contract Period
United KFPW	Human resource management services	November 2005 to November 2007
Walter and Turnbull	Financial services	March 2001 to December 2006
Infront	Information technology (IT) services	March 2002 to March 2006
Macquarie Telecom	Data hosting management services	June 2006 to June 2009

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 the FOI Act 1982.