Senate Order on Government Agency Contracts - March 2002 update

The Murray Motion of 20 June 2001 requires Commonwealth Departments and their agencies to publish a list, available via their Departmental website homepage, which includes the following details relating to each contract entered into by the agency which has not been fully performed or which has been entered into during the previous 12 months, and which provides for a consideration to the value of $100 000 or more:

the contractor and the subject matter of each such contract;
whether each such contract contains provisions requiring the parties to maintain confidentiality of any of its provisions; or
whether any provisions of the contract are regarded by the parties as confidential, and
a statement of the reasons for confidentiality; and
an estimate of the cost of complying with this order.

Following is a list of all DEST (and its agencies) contracts for the purposes of the Murray Motion March 2002 Update:

DEST 2001 active contracts*

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DEST FM&A Act Agency 2001 active contracts:

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The estimated cost of complying with the March Update is approximately $8,521 for the centralised data compilation area, this is in addition to the September 2001 exercise which cost approximately $14,625.

* The Department has not reported on agreements required to be made under the States Grants (Primary and Secondary Education Assistance) Act 1996, the States Grants (Primary and Secondary Education Assistance) Act 2000, the Indigenous Education (Supplementary Assistance) Act 1989 and the Indigenous Education (Targeted Assistance) Act 2000. The Minister is required to report separately to Parliament on the expenditure under section 90 of the States Grants (Primary and Secondary Education Assistance) Act 1996, section 116 of the States Grants (Primary and Secondary Education Assistance) Act 2000 and section 17A of the Indigenous Education (Targeted Assistance) Act 2000.

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