The content on this page and other DCITA document archive pages is provided to assist research and may contain references to activities or policies that have no current application. See the full archive disclaimer.

Final Report of the ICT SME Joint Industry Government Working Party - B

Attachment B

Australian Government Procurement Inquiries and Reviews

1981—an inquiry into Commonwealth Government Purchasing by the House of

Representatives Standing Committee on Expenditure;

1994—an inquiry into problems with Australian purchasing policies by the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology (the Bevis Report);

1994—an inquiry into the purchasing policies of Commonwealth Authorities and Companies by the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology;

1995—an independent review by the Information Technology Review Group (established by the Minister for Finance) presented ideas on how the Government could to take advantage of technological developments;

1997—the Senate Finance and Public Administration References Committee inquired into the contracting out of government services;

1997—a committee of senior Australian Government officials undertook the Review of Commonwealth Purchasing which advocated for a devolved approach to purchasing and a centrally developed framework of procurement policies and principles;

1998—the Senate Economics References Committee reported on aspects of Australian industry development;

2000—a Review of the Whole of Government Information Technology (IT) Outsourcing Initiative (the Humphry Review); and

2001—a review of inhibitors to SME participation in IT outsourcing contracts by the Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts.

House of Representatives Standing Committee on Expenditure, Commonwealth Government Purchasing, Parliamentary Paper No. 107/1981, AGPS, Canberra, May 1981.

House of Representatives Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology, Australian Government Purchasing Policies: Buying our Future, First Report, AGPS, Canberra; March 1994

Goodbye Bad Buys, Australian Government Purchasing Policies and Commonwealth Authorities and Companies , Interim Second Report, AGPS, Canberra, November 1995

Clients First: The Challenge for Government Information Technology – Report of Minister for Finance’s Information technology Review Group, 1995

Senate Finance and Public Administration References Committee, Contracting out of Government Services, First Report, Information Technology, Senate Printing Unit, Canberra, November 1997, p. 35.

Department of Industry, Science and Resources, Submission, p. S446.

Senate Economics References Committee, Promoting Australian Industry, Senate Printing Unit,

Canberra , July 1998, p. 173

Review of the Whole of Government Information Outsourcing Initiative , Richard Humphry AO, Printed by CanPrint Communications Pty Ltd, Canberra, 2000

Inhibitors to Small-To-Medium Sized Enterprise Participation in Commonwealth Government IT Outsourcing Contracts , October 2001

Footnote: