Pursuant to the Senate Order on departmental and agency contracts the following table sets out contracts entered into which provide for a consideration to the value of $100,000or more and which (a) have not been fully performed as at 30 June 2011 or (b) which have been entered into during the 12 months prior to 30 June 2011
Some of the contracts listed contain confidentiality provisions of a general nature that are designed to protect the confidential information of the parties that may be obtained or generated in carrying out the contract. Most of the confidentiality clauses do not bind the Commonwealth from disclosing information, which it may be required to do for public accountablity reasons, including a request for information by parliament or a parliamentary committee.
The reasons for including such clauses typically include:
Protection of Commonwealth material and personal information, for example, investigation information; and/or
Less commonly, ordinary commercial prudence that requires protection of trade secrets, proprietary information and the like. Such clauses are typical of standard contracts entered into by large commercial bodies.
Contractor Subject Matter
Amount of
Consideration Start Date Anticipated end date
Whether contract contains provisions requiring the parties to maintain confidentiality of any
of its provisions (Y/N) Reason(s)
contract contains other
requirement Reason(s)
Beethoven ComputerServices
Implementation of the 'Resolve' Case Management System and Ongoing Support
$1,126,297 19-Oct-2004 30 Apr 2012 Yes Costing/Profit
information
No Carlson Wagonlit Travel This travel management contract is an
interim contract.
$295,000 1-Jul-2010 31-Jul-2011 No No
Childers Nominees Pty Ltd
Leasing of premises at level 5, Childers Square, 14 Childers Street, Canberra ACT 2600. Includes the cost of parking bays.
$17,653,727 1-Dec-2009 30-Nov-2024 No No
Dell Computers Pty Ltd Desktop Replacement $136,974 15-Dec-2010 16-Jan-2011 No No
ISPT Pty Ltd Leasing of premises at Level 7, 477 Pitt Street, Sydney NSW.
$1,387,822 1-Oct-2005 31/01/2011 (currently on month to month basis) No No
Knight Frank Australia Pty Ltd
Sub lease negotiation to Department of Climate Change
$107,658 3-Aug-2010 30-Nov-2011 No No
Lessor - Zurich House Pty Ltd (formerly owned by Zurich Australian
Leasing of premises at Level 5, 50 Grenfell Street, Adelaide, SA 5000
$150,087 1-Jun-2007 31-May-2012 No No
National Mutual Life Nominees Ltd
Leasing of premises at Level 1, 441 St Kilda Road, Melbourne
$650,887 10-Nov-2008 30-Nov-2013 Yes Costing/Profit
information
No
NEC Australia Approach management and voice services $175,677 14-Oct-2010 4-Oct-2013 No No
Objective Corporation Ltd
Electronic records management system software licence and support
$336,935 6-Nov-2008 5-Nov-2011 No No
Optus Networks Pty Ltd Provision of Voice Carriage and OPI Networking
$1,112,322 17-Jan-2006 06/01/2011 (currently on month to month basis) Yes Costing/Profit information
No Optus Networks Pty Ltd Provision of Secure Internet Services
(under the Head of Agreement between the Commonwealth of Australia and Optus)
$541,029 20-Apr-2006 09/04/2009 (currently on month to month basis) Yes Costing/Profit information
No
PricewaterhouseCooper Australia (formerly WalterTurnbull Pty Ltd)
Internal Audit Services $191,747 2-Apr-2007 31-Oct-2011 No No
The State of Queensland Sublease of part premises at 18th floor, 53 Albert Street, Brisbane QLD 4000
$1,078,707 2-Feb-2009 4-Feb-2016 No No
Consideration is provided as approximate due to variable costs that may arise for the full term of the contract.
Estimate of Costs
Estimated cost of complying with this Order: $1170
Basis of method used to estimate the cost: Estimate is based on salary and salary on-costs (2.5 days). No other overheads were included in this estimate.
COMMONWEALTH OMBUDSMAN FINANCIAL YEAR 2010/11
Senate Order on Agency Contracts Listing Relating to the Period 1 July 2010 to 30 June 2011
24/08/2011 2:55 PM Senate Order On Government Contract at June 2011.xlsx Final
