5. Parks Victoria: Procuring archaeological surveys
This chapter looks at how Parks Victoria engaged an archaeological surveyor as a sole supplier to assess and record Aboriginal rock art sites. It covers eight contracts between May 2016 and June 2020.
4. DHHS: Procuring community service providers
This chapter looks at how DHHS managed a tender process for the Victorian Family Preservation and Reunification Response (the response).
Managing Conflicts of Interest in Procurement
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This limited assurance review assessed if Parks Victoria and the former Department of Health and Human Services followed their procurement policies and procedures for their respective procurements of an archaeological surveyor and community service providers.
Appendix E. DJPR's procurement procedures
DJPR's procurement policy (April 2019) includes provision for management of critical incidents.
Section 3.5 provides information about exemptions. Section 3.5.2 explains that a critical incident is automatic grounds for an exemption from the prescribed market approach (amongst others). Section 3.5.3 offers a process for an exemption from using a mandatory SPC.
Section 6.1 includes information about the fundamental principle of probity.
Section 11 explains the requirements under a critical incident.
3. DJPR: Procuring security services for the Hotel Quarantine Program
This chapter looks at how DJPR managed the procurement of security guards for the Hotel Quarantine Program, during the COVID-19 emergency response.
Appendix D. DHHS's procurement procedures
Critical incident procurement
DHHS's critical incident procurement policy stated that critical incident procurement protocols may be invoked by the Secretary or accountable officer as a result of:
2. DHHS: Procuring medical services for the Hotel Quarantine Program
This chapter looks at how the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) managed the procurement of a service provider to deliver medical services to people in the Hotel Quarantine Program, during the COVID-19 emergency response.
Appendix D. Agency strategies and actions
Figure D1 lists the actions that each agency is delivering or planning under the key strategies that we examined in the audit. It also shows which of the four aspects of major project resourcing they address. Figure D2 lists the members of the two IDCs.
FIGURE D1: Key strategies the audited agencies have underway or in draft to address delivery capability and capacity shortages, and the actions that each strategy includes
Appendix C. Scope of this audit
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We assessed how the agencies: |