Departmental Contract Listing
Senate Order No 192 of 20 June 2001 (amended 27 September 2001, June 2003 and 4 December 2003) requires government agencies to publish at regular intervals a list of contracts to the value of $100,000 or more entered into during the previous twelve months. The list is also to include contracts entered into in an earlier period that have not been fully performed (i.e. which are still current), at the end of the reporting year.
The Senate Order requires the list to include:
- the name of the contractor;
- the subject matter of each contract;
- the total contract value;
- the start and end dates of the contract (contract duration); and
- details of confidentiality provisions requiring the parties to maintain confidentiality of: (i) any of its provisions; and (ii) of any other requirements of confidentiality.
All of the Department's contracts contain the standard confidentiality and non-disclosure clauses of a general nature.
In the context of the Senate Order, 'contract' has been defined as including funding agreements, which are listed separately.
The current contract lists are for the calendar year 2007.