The Senate Order for Entity Contracts (Senate Order 13) requires that entities publish a list of contracts which:
- have not been fully performed or which have been entered into during the previous 12 months; and
- provide for a consideration to the value of $100,000 or more (GST inclusive).
Most of the contracts listed contain confidentiality provisions of a general nature. These provisions are designed to protect the confidential information of the parties that may be obtained or generated in carrying out the contract.
The reasons for including such clauses include:
- ordinary commercial prudence that requires protection of trade secrets, proprietary information and the like; and/or
- protection of other Commonwealth material and personal information.
The Accountable Authority in our Department has assured that, based on the information available as a result of reasonable enquiries our staff have undertaken, the listed contracts do not contain any inappropriate confidentiality provisions.
Procurement contracts
Details of our procurement contracts are published on AusTender.
Other contracts
Previous reporting
See the National Library of Australia's archive website Trove for:
- past Climate change and energy contract reporting (Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources)
- past Environment and water contract reporting (Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment).