List of Recommendations
Recommendation 1
3.12 The
committee recommends the Department of Finance provide to the committee by 1
September 2014:
- a link to a prototype
of the AusTender website with agencies' compiled Senate order reports for the
2013-14 financial year; and
- a copy of the revised
version of Financial Management Guidance No. 8 Guidance on the Listing of
Contract Details on the Internet (Meeting the Senate order on Departmental and
Agency Contracts) in draft form.
Recommendation 2
3.24 The
committee recommends the Department of Finance amend the title of the report in
AusTender to 'Agency reports complying with the Senate order on procurement
contracts and use of confidentiality provisions'.
Recommendation 3
3.34 The
committee recommends that the Senate order be amended:
- to provide that,
following the tabling of the Auditor-General's report pursuant to paragraph (5)
of the Senate order in 2014, the Auditor-General conduct an audit of compliance
with the Senate order biennially for the next four years with reports due no
later than 30 September 2016 and 30 September 2018;
- to provide that in
the letter of advice tabled pursuant to paragraph (1) of the Senate order, that
Ministers must certify that none of the contracts included in the list contain
inappropriate confidentiality provisions as measured against the Department of
Finance's guidance;
- to reflect
legislative changes as a result of the Public Governance Performance and
Accountability Act 2013, so the Senate order applies to Commonwealth
entities; and
- with respect to any
further technical aspects of the Senate order which are found, in consultation
between the Clerk of the Senate and the committee, to require amendment.
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