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 $100,000 or more and which (a) have not been fully performed as at 31 December 2011 or (b) which have been entered into during the 12 months prior to 31 December 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)
Whether contract contains other
requirement Reason(s)
Beethoven ComputerServices
Implementation of the 'Resolve' Case Management System and Ongoing Support
$1,146,097 19-Oct-2004 30 Apr 2012 Yes Costing/Profit
information
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
ISPT Pty Ltd Level 7, 477 Pitt Street, Sydney NSW premises lease - contract was executed in September 2011
$1,628,940 1-Feb-2011 31-Jan-2017 No No
Zurich House Pty Ltd (formerly owned by Zurich Australian Insurance Ltd)
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 30-Jun-2012 No No
Optus Networks Pty Ltd Provision of Voice Carriage and OPI Networking
$1,146,173 17-Jan-2006 30-Jun-2012 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)
$677,544 20-Apr-2006 09/04/2009 (currently on month to month basis) Yes Costing/Profit information
No
Optus Networks Pty Ltd Upgrade Security Internet Gateway $160,812 13-Oct-2011 12-Oct-2012 No No
PricewaterhouseCooper Australia (formerly WalterTurnbull Pty Ltd)
Internal Audit Services $361,747 2-Apr-2007 31/10/2011(currently on month to month basis) 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: $1224
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 CALENDAR YEAR 2011
Senate Order on Agency Contracts Listing Relating to the Period 1 January 2011 to 31 December 2011
17/02/2012 2:31 PM Senate order Dec 11 for internet .xlsx Final
