[MS 04 attachment A]

[MS 04 attachment A]

Attachment A Consultancy Contracts Over $10,000 Let During 2007–08

Consultant name

Contract price

(incl. GST)

Description Selection process

Justification

Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics

Scott Rozelle 50,000 Provide input into AusAid 'Water governance in China' project.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

Total $50,000

Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service

Acumen Alliance 99,000 Provision of independent gateway-style project assurance services to the ICON Redevelopment Project.

Open Tender

Independent Assessment Requirement

Ascent Governance Pty Ltd

12,373 Assisting with year end processes.

Open Tender

Short-Term Additional Resource

Couch Creative 84,528 To provide Artwork design concepts printing and distribution of Horn Island Signage and 2008 Top Watch Calendars.

Open Tender

Special Expertise

Customs Brokers and Forwarders Council of Australia Inc

213,205 Secretariat to the AICCC and related committees working parties and task forces.

Select Tender

Special Expertise

Customs Brokers and Forwarders Council of Australia Inc

335,000 Provision of secretariat and liaison services to the AQIS / Industry Cargo Consultative Committee (AICCC).

Direct Source

Special Expertise

Davidson Trahaire Corpsych

10,110 Provide counselling service to staff post Code of Conduct investigation.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

Fujitsu Australia Limited 109,542

Strategic review of the provision of software services to the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service (AQIS).

Open Tender


Fumigation Training & Consulting Services

10,800 Provision of methyl bromide fumigation training to AQIS officers (Sydney).

Open Tender

Special Expertise

Fumigation Training & Consulting Services

10,800 Provision of methyl bromide fumigation training to AQIS officers (Adelaide).

Open Tender

Special Expertise

Gartner Australasia Pty Ltd

39,490 Supply of Gartner IT Leaders Advisory.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

Global-Mark Pty Ltd 10,450 External auditing for Quality Management System

(ISO) Select Tender

Special Expertise


Consultant name

Contract price

(incl. GST)


Justification

Investors in People New Zealand Ltd

35,000

Provide assessment of the effectiveness of AQIS' people management and strategic planning framework. 125 randomly selected AQIS staff from four regions will participate in face-to-face and phone interviews with two assessors.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

John Field 18,035 Provision of expert technical advice for the Thai - Australian Fumigation Accreditation Scheme Joint Systems Review.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

Linguaset Translations 10,278

AQIS required the services of a Russian speaking interpreter to accompany AQIS officers and a Russian Government delegation who were inspecting fish export establishments in several towns across several States of Australia.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

Palm Consulting Group 15,400 Design preparation and facilitation of the AQIS SMC.

Open Tender

Special Expertise

Pest Australia Pty Ltd 50,000 Provision of specialists services for the development of

a methyl bromide fumigation training DVD. Open Tender

Special Expertise

Pest Australia Pty Ltd 16,000 Provision of specialist fumigation auditing services.

Open Tender

Special Expertise

Pest Australia Pty Ltd 71,558

Provision of training and technical expertise during Methyl Bromide fumigation training being conducted in PNG under the recently signed AFAS Arrangement between NAQIA and AQIS.

Open Tender

Special Expertise

PIRSA 36,146 Inspection Entomology Services 07/08. Direct Source

Special Expertise

Stratsec-Net Pty Ltd 13,200 AQIS Application Foundation Library (AFL) Application

Security Plan (ASP). Direct Source

Special Expertise

THE HISER CONSULTING GROUP

75,158 Interface design.

Open Tender

Special Expertise

Wallis Consulting Group 22,000 Research for Centenary of Quarantine logo.

Select Tender

Special Expertise

HBA Consulting 11,880 Consulting fees re HR Matter. Open Tender

Special Expertise

BMS Solutions Pty Ltd 20,900 Annual Support & Maintenance Fees.

Open Tender

Special Expertise

Workplace Research Associates

58,000 Organisational culture assessment.

Select Tender

Special Expertise

Tourism Futures International 16,236 Passenger Projections for 2007/2008.

Direct Source

Special Expertise


Consultant name

Contract price

(incl. GST)


Justification

CSIRO 80,000 Live fly bio assay replacement project. Direct Source

Special Expertise

Open Mind 147,550 Market Research. Select Tender

Special Expertise

ETHNIC COMMUNICATIONS

21,100 NESB Translation.

Select Tender

Special Expertise

Total $1,653,738 Corporate Policy Division Blake Dawson & Waldron 200000 Legal Service for Equine Influenza Inquiry

Open Tender

Special Expertise

Blake Dawson Waldron 1000000 Provision of Legal Services

Select Tender

Special Expertise

Blake Dawson Waldron Lawyers 990000 Legal

Select Tender

Special Expertise

Marsh Pty Ltd 12000

Marsh are being contracted to aid in the development of a Business Continuity test and to implement this test around August.

Select Tender

Special Expertise

Mary Boydell 25000 External Member of the Audit Committee Direct Source

Special Expertise

Teamic Pty Ltd 27500 External Member of the Audit Committee Direct Source

Special Expertise

Yellow Edge Pty Ltd 25000

Development and delivery of risk management training.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

Ernest & Young 128,359 Preparation of renewed fraud control plan Select Tender

Special Expertise

Miniter Ellison 30,000 Compensatory Scheme Claims Select Tender

Special Expertise

Total $2,437,859 Biosecurity Australia Brennan and Associates 49,349 Develop and deliver Pest Risk Analysis training

Workshop. Select Tender

Special Expertise

Cooperative Research Centre for National Plant Biosecurity

41,500 Development of a diagnostic testing protocol for sudden oak death agent in nursery stock.

Direct Source


CSIRO Australian AnimalHealth Laboratory

13,612 Provision of FMD reference laboratory services to Indonesia: Technology Transfer including training supply of reagents and expert advice in diagnostic testing in support of a surveillance program.

Select Tender



Consultant name

Contract price

(incl. GST)


Justification

David Peasley Horticultural Services

38,000 Provide Scientific advice and act as a member of the import risk analysis team in relation to Philippines bananas.

Select Tender


Dr Allan Christopher Hayward

22,000 Specialist consultancy services & associated costs.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

Dr Robert Norman Allen 65,000

Provide Scientific advice and act as a member of the import risk analysis team in relation to Philippines bananas.

Select Tender


DWC FoodTech Pty Ltd 33,000 Review of heat treatments in draft chicken meat IRA

report. Direct Source

Special Expertise

James Cook University 11,000

Participate as a member of the Import Risk Analysis Team to develop quarantine requirements for the importation of prawn and prawn products.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

RMIT University 11,000 Participation on the Risk Analysis Panel for the Import Risk Analysis of Chicken Meat.

Direct Source


Robert Maxwell Cannon 37,000


Select Tender


university of New South Wales 13,827

Review Scientific literature and provide expert advice on heat treatments suitable to kill a range of plant pathogens.

Select Tender


Bob Paton Consulting 28,000


Direct engagement


NSW DPI 24,315 Heat treatment of plant pathogens and soil. Select Tender

Special Expertise

QDPI 45,000 Effectiveness of fixatives. Select Tender

Special Expertise

Victoria DPI 49,500 Incidence of xylella fastidiosa in nursery stock in Australia.

Select Tender

Special Expertise

Total $482,104 Bureau of Rural Sciences

Analytics Group 17,000 Development of Employee Cost Allocation model for the Bureau.

Select Tender

Special Expertise


Consultant name

Contract price

(incl. GST)


Justification

AQ1 Systems Pty Ltd 27,940

Provision of advice regarding the operational feasibility of a stereo video and evaluate monitoring options for the southern bluefin tuna fishery farm sector. (Input also provided by Australian Southern Bluefin Tuna Association, SeaGIS and the University of Western Australia).

Select Tender

Special Expertise

Austn Logging Services Pty Ltd 54,181

Provision of geophysical logging services of investigation bores and lithological logging and core sampling within the River Murray Corridor from 10/4/07 to 31/5/07.

Select Tender

Special Expertise

Australian Southern Bluefin Tuna Association Ltd

183,163

Provision of research outcomes for assessing operational feasibility of stereo video for use in the Southern Bluefin Tuna Fishery Farm Sector. (in collaboration with SeaGIS and University of Western Australia).

Select Tender

Special Expertise

Barry Baker 27,500 Produce National Plan of Action for Seabird bycatch assessment report.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

Barry Computer Services 38,500 Software development on Multi Criteria Analysis Shell

for Spatial Decision Support. Direct Source

Special Expertise

Border Rivers-Gwydir Catchment Mgt Auth

70,000

To build on existing salinity data with the acquisition of new stream sampling and salinity mapping data to deliver a robust dataset on salinity that can be used to target investments for intervention and salinity management within the Gwydir Catchment area more effectively.

Select Tender

Special Expertise

Central West Catchment Mgt Auth

191,500

To build on existing salinity data with the acquisition of new stream sampling and salinity mapping data to deliver a robust dataset on salinity that can be used to target investments for intervention and salinity management within the Central West area more effectively.

Select Tender

Special Expertise

CSIRO 110,000 Provision of investigation and advice services relating to an Integrated Systems Model project for the Angas Bremer Prescribed Wells area.

Select Tender

Special Expertise

Darling Capital Pty Ltd 99,000

Development and implementation of Web Feature Services suitable for the delivery of Water Data using Australian Water Data Infrastructure schemas.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

Dept Natural Resources & Water

100,000 Provision of analysis data of historical percentile pasture growth and modelled soil moisture time series from 1990 to present for the National Agricultural Monitoring System project.

Select Tender

Special Expertise


40,000 Provision and collaboration of technical and stakeholder input to help and design a national hydrological distributed database network.

Select Tender

Special Expertise


Consultant name

Contract price

(incl. GST)


Justification


27,000 Final report and data sets for the Australian Collaborative Land Use Mapping Program project. Select

Tender Special Expertise

Dept Primary Industries & Water

50,000 Provision and collaboration of data into a national hydrological distributed database network in the form of technical information that defines the existing hydrological databases and their accessibility.

Select Tender

Special Expertise

Dept of Urban Services 275,550

To build on existing salinity data with the acquisition of new stream sampling and salinity mapping data to deliver a robust dataset on salinity that can be used to target investments for intervention and salinity management within the Australian Capital Territory area more effectively.

Select Tender

Special Expertise

Dept of Water,Land & Biodiversity Cons

26,500 Provision and demonstration of a web feature service with agency data relating to the Australian Water Data Infrastructure Project.

Select Tender

Special Expertise

ENVision Environmental Consulting

16,500 Envision Environmental Consulting will provide social science advice under the Fisheries Service Level Agreement.

Open Tender

Special Expertise

Excelerated Consulting 48,613 Supply ITM1 database support to the Bureau. Select


Fugro Airborne Surveys Pty Ltd 611,677 Airborne survey for electro-magnetic mapping project

Lower Macquarie River NSW. Select Tender

Special Expertise

Georia Associates Pty Ltd

79,750 Manage components of the Bureau's land management practices work program including development of principles of an agreed framework (categorisation system).

Select Tender

Special Expertise

Geoscience Australia 292,600

Provision of technical advice necessary to develop products to address the salinity and land management issues identified by the River Murray Corridor Project Reference Group.

Select Tender

Special Expertise

Goulburn Valley Water 122,000

To build on existing salinity data with the acquisition of new stream sampling and salinity mapping data to deliver a robust dataset on salinity that can be used to target investments for intervention and salinity management within the Goulburn area more effectively.

Select Tender

Special Expertise

Hunter-Central Rivers Catchment Mgt Auth

152,500

To build on existing salinity data with the acquisition of new stream sampling and salinity mapping data to deliver a robust dataset on salinity that can be used to target investments for intervention and salinity management within the Hunter area more effectively.

Select Tender

Special Expertise


Consultant name

Contract price

(incl. GST)


Justification

Lachlan Catchment Mgt Auth

220,300

To build on existing salinity data with the acquisition of new stream sampling and salinity mapping data to deliver a robust dataset on salinity that can be used to target investments for intervention and salinity management within the Lachlan area more effectively.

Select Tender

Special Expertise

Latitude 42 environmental Consultants

27,500 Provide and produce assessment report to support the Seabird Bycatch assessment project (Consultant also trading as Barry Baker).

Select Tender

Special Expertise

Mallee Catchment Mgt Auth

87,000

To build on existing salinity data with the acquisition of new stream sampling and salinity mapping data to deliver a robust dataset on salinity that can be used to target investments for intervention and salinity management within the Mallee Catchment area more effectively.

Select Tender

Special Expertise

Murray Catchment Mgt Auth

200,000

To build on existing salinity data with the acquisition of new stream sampling and salinity mapping data to deliver a robust dataset on salinity that can be used to target investments for intervention and salinity management within the River Murray area more effectively.

Select Tender

Special Expertise

Murrumbidgee Catchment Mgt Auth

87,000

To build on existing salinity data with the acquisition of new stream sampling and salinity mapping data to deliver a robust dataset on salinity that can be used to target investments for intervention and salinity management within the Murrumbidgee area more effectively.

Select Tender

Special Expertise

Namoi Catchment Mgt Auth

53,000

To build on existing salinity data with the acquisition of new stream sampling and salinity mapping data to deliver a robust dataset on salinity that can be used to target investments for intervention and salinity management within the Namoi River area more effectively.

Select Tender

Special Expertise

NGIS Australia Pty Ltd 32,439 Provide Spatial Data Infrastructure Technology review

services for the Bureau. Select Tender

Special Expertise

Nicole Mazur 25,000 Provide technical advice for the fisheries Bycatch project.

Select Tender

Special Expertise

North Central Catchment Mgt Auth

214,000

To build on existing salinity data with the acquisition of new stream sampling and salinity mapping data to deliver a robust dataset on salinity that can be used to target investments for intervention and salinity management within the North Central Catchment area more effectively.

Select Tender

Special Expertise

Oxide Interactive 16,500 Web design and online development of the Climate & Resources Reliability Tool as part of the National Agricultural Monitoring System.

Select Tender

Special Expertise


Consultant name

Contract price

(incl. GST)


Justification

Primary Industries & Resources SA

132,000 Provide indicators of land salinity assessment specifications. Select


Queensland Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries

33,000

Study of asset value of the National Agricultural Monitoring System IT engine. Open


Qld Dept Primary Industries & Fisheries

10,000 Provision of Sorghum production data analysis for Queensland from 1990 to 2006 from Season Crop Outlook Reports for the National Agricultural & Monitoring System.

Select Tender

Special Expertise

Queensland Murray Darling Ctee Inc

318,284 Provision of Salinity investigations using airborne geophysics in the Lower Balonne area to increase understanding of salt stores and salinity processes within the Catchment's landscape.

Select Tender

Special Expertise

Rural Solutions SA 100,000

Completion of scoping study for a National Assessment of Land Salinity and Status of Natural Resources Booklet.

Open Tender

Special Expertise

SA Murray-Darling Basin NRM Board

171,000

To build on existing salinity data with the acquisition of new stream sampling and salinity mapping data to deliver a robust dataset on salinity that can be used to target investments for intervention and salinity management within the South Australian Murray Darling area more effectively.

Select Tender

Special Expertise

SeaGIS 32,968

Provision of research outcomes for assessing operational feasibility of stereo video for use in the Southern Bluefin Tuna Fishery Farm Sector. (in collaboration with the University of Western Australia and the Australian Southern Bluefin Tuna Association).

Select Tender

Special Expertise

StratsecNet Pty Ltd 17,360

Provision of an independent assessment of the design and code base for the National Agricultural Monitoring System database in determining it's ability to be maintained and extended.

Select Tender

Special Expertise

Sunraysia Environmental Pty Ltd

2,663,001 Provision of project management services relating to the drilling of investigation bores, logging of bores and lab testing within the River Murray Corridor.

Open Tender

Special Expertise

Social Change Online Pty Ltd 11,500

The consultant will support the Bureau to configure Geoserver software to manage the request and response templates as provided by CSIRO and the database as defined by Bureau input into a national hydrological distributed database network for the Australian Water Data Implementation Project.

Select Tender

Special Expertise


Consultant name

Contract price

(incl. GST)


Justification

University of Western Australia

37,000

Provision of research outcomes for assessing operational feasibility of stereo video for use in the Southern Bluefin Tuna Fishery Farm Sector. (in collaboration with the SeaGIS and the Australian Southern Bluefin Tuna Association).

Select Tender

Special Expertise

Waters & Rivers Commission 50,000

Provision and demonstration of a data delivery prototype of web services to the Audit Council for the Bureau's Australian Water Data Infrastructure Project.

Select Tender

Special Expertise

Wimmera Catchment Mgt Auth

230,000 Provision of project management services relating to the drilling of investigation bores, logging of bores and lab testing within the Wimmera Catchment.

Select Tender

Special Expertise

Total $7,430,327 Food and Agriculture Division Andrew Gavel Pty Ltd as Trustee for Andrew Gavel Family Trust

71,500

Programme Review.

Select Tender


Australia Bureau of Statistics 19,500 Consultancy to provide the 2007 bulk grain survey.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

Australian Bureau of Statistics

26,400 Provision of Bulk Grain Surveys for the Feed Partnership from September 07 to February 08.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

Australian Government Solicitor

55,000 Provision of legal services concerning the bulk wheat export application process.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

Garland Outcomes Pty Ltd

30,360 To independently review the Produce and Grocery Industry Code of Conduct.

Select Tender


Ian Doughty 19,800 Consultant engaged to undertake additional analysis and audit of state and territory food legislation for input into the review of the Australian Food Regulatory System.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

March Hare Pty Ltd 26,294 Maintenance and Support for Dairy System QUASAR.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

Staffing and Office Solutions Pty Ltd

10,000 Provide advice on irrigated agriculture in particular on the MDB.

Select Tender

Special Expertise

Horticulture Australia Limited 125,345 Value chain analysis of the vegetable processing

industry. Direct Source

Special Expertise

Horticulture Australia Limited 486,597 Develop a domestic marketing plan for the vegetable

industry. Direct Source

Special Expertise


Consultant name

Contract price

(incl. GST)


Justification

Total $870,796 Fisheries and Forestry Division Australian Bureau of Agriculture and Resource Economics - ABARE

50,000 The project will evaluate the Aquaculture Industry Action Agenda to assess its effectiveness efficiency and appropriateness and make recommendations as necessary.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

Australian Fisheries Management Authority

15,000 AFMA to provide training exercise in coordination with Malaysian Authorities.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

Australian National University

16,500

Legal consultancy report investigating legislation requiring the: (i) disclosure of information on species country of origin and any certification of forest products at their point of sale; (ii) Identification of illegally logged timber and restriction.

Direct Source


Australian Public Service Commission

11,825 Attendance at APSC's Career Development Assessment Centre.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

Bureau of Rural Sciences 474,735

For BRS and CSIRO to identify advise on and facilitate scientific engagement in emerging policy issues for the international southern bluefin tuna fishery on behalf of the Australian Government's invovelment in the Commission for the Conservation of Sout.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

CSIRO 2007-08 Aerial Survey 450,000

To use scientific and commercial aerial spotting operations to continue to develop a fishery-independent index of relative abundance of juvenile southern bluefin tuna in the Great Australian Bight which could be used as an indicator for determining trends.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

CSIRO Division of Marine & Atmospheric Research

132,763

1) Monitor the Indonesian longline fishery operating out of Benoa (Bali) including determining the species composition of landings and measuring the length and weights of a representative sub-sample of the key species caught according to the Indian Ocean.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

Ewan Colquhoun RidgePartners 10,843

To facilitate negotiations and implement Resource Sharing agreements in Australia's Tuna and Billfish fisheries. The consultant activities are as follows: 1. Review existing options (research & interpretation) 2. Consultation with stakeholders to id.

Direct Source


Minter Ellison 25,578 Provide legislative legal advice. Select Tender

Special Expertise

Minter Ellison 71,500 Provide legal/probity advice on tender. Direct Source

Special Expertise


Consultant name

Contract price

(incl. GST)


Justification

Minter Ellison Lawyers 84,700

A lawyer with Minter Ellison Lawyers is being seconded for 2 days a week for 6 months to work on legislative reform issues which will include but not be limited to the drafting of a discussion paper on reforms to merits review in Cwlth fisheries legislation.

Direct Source


PriceWaterhouseCoopers 176,000

Providing financial viability assessments for Round 3 of the Onshore Business Assistance under the Securing our Fishing Future Package.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

Ross Human Directions 15,787

Provide administrative assistance. Direct Source


Sustainable Environment Group Pty Ltd

155,000 Implementing Harvest Transition Paths to BMEY in Commonwealth Fisheries.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

University of Wollongong - Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security

67,000

To plan and conduct a workshop to address implementation of the RPOA priority areas in SE Asia.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

University of Wollongong - Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security

79,500 Plan organise and facilitate 3 fisheries workshops in the SE Asia region to assist implementation of the Regional Plan of Action.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

URS Australia Pty Ltd 69,465 Case studies on Private Forestry Development

Committees. Select Tender

Special Expertise

Australian Centrefor International Agricultural Research

120,000 Study and develop red snapper management capacity in Indonesia.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

Total $2,026,196 International Division

David Harris 26,000 Review of International Agricultural Cooperation - Live Animal Trade Programme and the Activities of the Consul-Agriculture (Middle East).

Direct Source

Special Expertise

Meat and Livestock Australia

32,700 A six day visit to Malaysia by two representatives of Meat and Livestock Australia to undertake a scoping study for a Malaysian Animal Traceability system.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

P J Dawson & Associates 44,004 Feasibility study on UPTs in Indonesia.

Direct Source

Special Expertise


Consultant name

Contract price

(incl. GST)


Justification

PJ Dawson & Associates Pty Ltd

91,186 Training for staff at Four Technical Production Units in Indonesia in order to prepare for commercialisation.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

Rural Solutions South Australia 150,000

Project in Eritrea will involve a series of in-country visits to the Hamelmalo College of Agriculture. This project will provide practical student training in the development of farming systems extension approaches within the local farming communities.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

Total $343,890 Management Services Division

Acumen Alliance Pty Ltd 55,000

Review of Cost Recovery Activities. Select Tender


Clientwise Pty Ltd 12,500

Conduct IT Survey and produce report on results. Direct Source


Davidson Trahaire Corpsych

138,600 Provide prefessional counselling and case management services.

Open Tender

Special Expertise

Davidson Trahaire Corpsych Pty Ltd

38,500 Provide professional counselling and case management services to the Department's central and regionally based employees.

Select Tender

Special Expertise

Dialog Information Technology

14,960 Business Analyst.

Open Tender

Special Expertise

Dialog Information Technology

14,960 Business Analyst.

Open Tender

Special Expertise

Excelerated Consulting Pty Ltd

48,000 System vendor enhancement of iTM1 system software to support preparation of annual Administered financial statements.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

Exclerated Consulting 20,240 Customisation of GEUS monthly estimates updates.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

Hughes TruemanPty Ltd 20,000 Professional Services for Pedestrian Facilities -

William Clemens St. Direct Source

Special Expertise

Icognition Pty Ltd 44,000 TRIM system support and maintenance services. Open Tender

Special Expertise

Icognition Pty Ltd 71,500 Provide services for the upgrade of TRIM Captura to TRIM Context.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

Icognition Pty Ltd 21,911 TRIM annual maintenance. Direct Source

Special Expertise


Consultant name

Contract price

(incl. GST)


Justification

Interaction Consulting Group 30,000 Change management support services.

Open Tender

Special Expertise

LNB Computer consultancy 12,068 Computing consultancy.

Select Tender

Special Expertise

NGAnet 125,177 Provision of an e-Recruitment system & extension to the current agreement.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

Noesis Learning Pty Ltd 17,945 Deliver of Job Applications and Interview Skill

workshops for August September October. Select Tender

Special Expertise

Oakton AA Services Pty Ltd 25,000 Consult- Project Work - Shaun Jeffrey.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

Oakton AA Services Pty Ltd 30,000 Consult - Project Work - Shaun Jeffrey.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

Ross Human Directions Limited

18,053 Provision of recruitment services for the 2009 Traineeship Programme.

Select Tender

Special Expertise

RPV Consultants Pty Ltd 78,045

Transition of DAFF disaster Recovery facility from Edmund Barton Building to Fyshwick Disaster Recovery site.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

Sparke Helmore Lawyers 38,610 Probity advice.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

Step Two Designs Pty Ltd 41,000

Intranet Review and user needs analysis. Select Tender


Stratsec Pty Ltd 22,000 Develop TRA and ASP for Sharepoint extranet environment.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

Stratsec Pty Ltd 22,000 Develop TRA and ASP for Sharepoint Collaboration Environment.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

WEBB Australia 11,000 Electrical Services for Gym at 18 Marcus Clarke Street.

Open Tender

Special Expertise

Words Worth Writing 15,120 Editorial expertise in publications of the PAES and

PBS documents. Direct Source

Special Expertise

Total $986,191 Natural Resource Management Division Beaten Track Group Pty Ltd 206,855 Review of the Management of Weeds of National

Significance. Open Tender

Special Expertise

Dept of Natural Resources and Water

1,180,000 Provision of a communication capacity building project.

Open Tender



Consultant name

Contract price

(incl. GST)


Justification

Garland Outcomes Pty Ltd

79,090 Project management Services for the Sustainable Industry Imitative - Programme Evaluation.

Select Tender


PerSec Solutions 10,000 Security Clearances. Open Tender

Special Expertise

Porter Novelli SA Pty Ltd 68,497 Project management services for the Sustainable

Industry Initiative - Industry Forum. Select Tender

Special Expertise

Total $1,544,442 Product Integrity, Animal and Plant Health Division Australian Government Solicitor

11,500 Urgent Legal Advise sought relating to a pressing

Equine Influenza issue. Direct Source

Special Expertise

AusVet Animal Health Services Pty Ltd

76,747 Coordinate and deliver SPS Awareness workshop for

middle managers in animal health sector. Direct Source

Special Expertise

Christopher Buller

14,400

Report on Structures to advance the AAWS R&D in accordance with the AAWS.

Open Tender

Special Expertise

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation through its Division of Entomology

15,310

Preparation and delivery of a training and mentoring program for building a Lucid Key for the key insect pests for a agriculture in the Philippines comprising an initial 5-day training program remote mentoring and exchange visit by consultant.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

DigsFish Services Pty Ltd

12,100

Revision of AQUAVETPAN Operational Procedures Manual: Disposal.

Select Tender

Special Expertise

Dr Margaret Schneider

10,510

Preparation and delivery of training workshop on entomology collection rehabilitation and strategic planning.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

Forestry Tasmania

19,800 Consultancy Services - Validation activities.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

Forestry Tasmania

19,800 Consultancy Services - Validation activities.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

Global Learning 17,526

Facilitation of Workshop - Workshop Design - Technical Assistant.

Open Tender

Special Expertise

Global Learning 11,762 Workshop Facilitation.

Open Tender

Special Expertise


Consultant name

Contract price

(incl. GST)


Justification

Global Learning 11,690 Facilitation of aquatic animal health education strategy

workshop.

Select Tender

Special Expertise

Howard Partners 30,000

Evaluation of Budget Initiative for Securing the Future.

Open Tender

Special Expertise

Livestock and Aquaculture Veterinary Consulting Services

16,500

Revision of AQUAVETPLAN Control Centre Manual.

Open Tender

Special Expertise

Lorraine Follett 24,044

Provision of assistance in implementation of the Australian Animal Welfare Strategy Communications Strategy and Website.

Direct Source


Matalexam Pty Ltd Trading as Conference Solutions

50,000

Services agreement for conference coordination services for the 2008 International Animal Welfare Conference.

Open Tender

Special Expertise

NSW Department of Primary Industries

16,264

Data Capture and Validation Activities.

Direct Source

Special Expertise


10,020

Plan and deliver 5-day program for two agencies in specimen collection upgrading and specialist equipment use.

Direct Source



44,000

Ranking Humaneness Project.

Open Tender

Special Expertise


20,000 Submission of scoping document-ranking humaneness

of pest control techniques.

Open Tender

Special Expertise

Panaquatic Health Solutions

31,348

consultancy agreement for the development of Aquatic Animal Standards. Second stage of project.

Open Tender

Special Expertise

Panaquatic Health Solutions Pty Ltd

11,963 Revision of AQUAVETPLAN Operational Procedures

Manual: Destruction. Select Tender

Special Expertise


14,112 Development of on-farm biosecurity protocols for

nodavirus. Select Tender

Special Expertise


Consultant name

Contract price

(incl. GST)


Justification


38,487 Development of AQUAVETPLAN Disease Strategy

Manual for Abalone Viral Ganglioneuritis. Select Tender

Special Expertise

Panaquatic Pty Ltd

18,348

Revision of AQUAVETPLAN Disease Strategy Manual: Furunculosis.

Select Tender

Special Expertise

Plant Health Australia Limited

66,000

Engagement of four key plant industries to identify plant health surveillance activities and to utilise the National Plant Surveillance Reporting Tool.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

Plant Health Australia Limited

44,000 NPSRT development.

Select Tender

Special Expertise

QLD Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries

17,000

Data capture and validation.

Direct Source

Special Expertise


23,100

Data Capture and Validation.

Direct Source

Special Expertise


53,724

Data capture and validation.

Direct Source

Special Expertise


34,100

Data Capture and Validation services.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

Roger Graham Shivas

30,116

Preparation and conduct of 3-week survey of smut fungi across the Surat Thani Phangna Phetchaburi Nakhon Ratchasima Sakon Nakhon Nhong Kai Chaiyaphum Nan Chaing Saen Chaing Rai and Chiang Mai - regions of Thailand and the production of a lucid diagnostic .

Direct Source

Special Expertise

State of Queensland through the Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries

15,074

Preparation and delivery of a training and mentoring program for building a Lucid Key for key plant pathogens for agriculture in the Philippines comprising an initial 5-day training program remote mentoring and exchange visit by consultant.

Direct Source

Special Expertise


Consultant name

Contract price

(incl. GST)


Justification

The Ellard FamilyTrust t/a Livestock and Aquaculture Veterinary Consulting Services

11,400

Editorial process of the AQUAVETPLAN Decontamination manual.

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Special Expertise

The Northern Territory of Australia represented by the Department of Primary Industry Fisheries and Mines

12,890 Preparation and delivery of a pilot database package

in Mocrosoft Access format to two (2) Philippines counterpart staff remote support to those staff in building databases for their respective specimen collections followed by a mentoring visit to monitor.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

University of Adelaide

41,250 Data capture and validation activities.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

Victorian Department of Primary Industries

22,220

Data capture and Validation activities.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

W J Murray Consultancy Services

38,000 Consultancy Services.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

Wilton Hanford Hanover Pty Ltd

11,689

Production of Aquatic animal disease CD THIS IS A VARIATION OF THE ORIGINAL CONTRACT WITH PIN: 6161.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

Clarus Design Pty Ltd

10,800

Formatting and production of five (5) ASEAN language version of the SPS Capacity Building Program SPS Booklet.

Direct Source

Special Expertise


17,000

Data Capture and validation activities.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

Agriculture Victoria Services acting as agents for the State of Victoria through the Department of Primary Industries

13,200

Production of a diagnostic protocol for detecting Candidatus phytoplasma prunorum including an informative photo gallery.

Direct Source

Special Expertise


Consultant name

Contract price

(incl. GST)


Justification


13,200

Production of a diagnostic protocol for detecting Western-X Disease Phytoplasma including an informative photo gallery.

Direct Source

Special Expertise


13,200

Validation of a diagnostic protocol for detecting Candidatus phytoplasma prunorum.

Direct Source

Special Expertise


13,200

Production of a diagnostic protocol for detecting Sugarcane White Leaf Phytoplasma including an informative photo gallery.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

Laurence Mound 11,000

Production of a diagnostic protocol for Echinothrips americanus.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

Laurence Mound 11,000

Production of a diagnostic protocol for Scirtothrips perseae.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

Museum Board of Victoria

19,800

Production of diagnostic images of exotic plant pests from the priority list.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

Peter Merriman Consultancy

50,000 Fruit Fly Diagnostics Consolidation Project.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

Paul Ferrar Consultancy 40,000 Stocktake of the Australian diagnostic capacity for fruit

fly. Direct Source

Special Expertise

Victorian Department of Primary Industries

15,000 Preparation and delivery of training workshop on handling a DNA reference material.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

Asia Pacific Veterinary Information Services Pty Ltd

25,410 Update of chapters of Exotic Diseases of Animals

publication.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

Dr Patricia Ellis 10,890

Update of chapters of Exotic Diseases of Animals publication.

Direct Source

Special Expertise


Consultant name

Contract price

(incl. GST)


Justification

Dept of Fisheries Western Australia

11,000

Travel Expenses for National Aquatic Animal Health Technical Working Group to attend an education strategy workshop.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research

102,236 Strain Identification of Caulerpa taxifolia in Australian

waters - Consultancy between DAFF and CSIRO. Direct Source

Special Expertise

Total $1,343,730 Rural Policy and Innovation Division

ACIL Tasman 79,800 Provision of consultancy services and preparation of the report for a 10 year vision and strategic plan for agricultural biotechnology in Australia.

Open Tender

Special Expertise

AgEconPlus Pty Ltd 186,031 To undertake a Industry Stocktake of the Australian

banana industry. Open Tender

Special Expertise

Agforce Queensland Industrial Union of Employers

50,000 Provision of GM Information forums in Queensland.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

Altitude Aviation 13,750 Outreach trip to Western Australia. Open Tender

Special Expertise

Australian Institute of Public Administration Australia Inc ACTDivision

35,000 Rural Policy and Innovation In house Monitoring and Evaluation Training Provider.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

D'Arcy Consulting GroupPty Limited

26,400 Personal Efficiency Program for Staff.

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Special Expertise

F1 Solutions Pty Ltd 14,522 Final adjustments to ARC database programme/ARC

support. Open Tender

Special Expertise

F1 Solutions Pty Ltd 43,428 Adjustments to ARC/GMS database systems.

Open Tender

Special Expertise

Hassall and Associates Pty Ltd

19,030 Design and delivery of materials for the 2007 Advancing Industries Knowledge Forum.

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Special Expertise

LNB Computing Consultancy Pty Ltd

41,633 The development and maintenance of databases for the new national FarmBis programme.

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Special Expertise

Pastoralists and Graziers Association of Western Australia

25,000 Consultancy Agreement to conduct Regional Agricultural Biotechnology Forums.

Direct Source

Special Expertise


Consultant name

Contract price

(incl. GST)


Justification

Queensland Apprenticeship Services Pty Ltd

2,335,718 Administrational services for the National FarmBIs programme.

Open Tender

Special Expertise

Roger Wickes Project Services 34,650 The consultancy will prepare a review report on the

efficacy of the NAMS tool in meeting its key objectives. Select Tender


Roger Wickes Project Services 34,650 The consultancy will prepare a review report on the

efficacy of the NAMS tool inmeeting its key objectives. Select Tender


Rural Solutions SA 93,000

Provision of Training for Business Skills (DAFF 128/07) to the Fishins Industry. The agreement is for the development and delivery of business management and fishing vessel management training for the fishing industry.

Open Tender

Special Expertise

South Australian Center for Economic Studies

46,090 Survey analysis and report.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

South Australian Farmers Federation Incorporated

50,000 Provision of Consultancy services and Information Forums under the NBSII.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

Tasmanian Farmers and Graziers Association

43,113 Provision of information forums.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

Victorian Farmers Federation

50,000 Provision of consultant services for Information Forums under NBS II.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

Walter Turnbull 183,205 Performance auditing of 16 service provider organisations delivering the Rural Financial Counselling Service (RFCS) Program.

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WalterTurnbull 12,000

An 'indicative' audit of the records and accounts of North East Agcare Inc to gain further information to assist the Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry in clarifying the amount of any shortfall in funding on the wind-up of the RFCS programme.

Direct Source

Special Expertise

Total $3,417,020

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