Senate Order on Government Agency Contracts
Contract listing – August 2008
The Department of Veterans’ Affairs
A significant proportion of the Department’s budget is spent on veterans' health care through a variety of standing offer arrangements with the Australian health industry, including State and Territory governments. These arrangements involve over 50,000 health care providers, which include small and medium business enterprises and individual practitioners. Medicare Australia acts as DVA's paying agent for most health services, paying for some 17 million transactions annually.
In addition to contracts for the provision of health services, DVA has a range of administrative and corporate services under contract.
Explanations of the services contracted by DVA can be found in the DVA Annual Report at http://www.dva.gov.au/media/aboutus/annrep07/index.htm .
Financial Year 2007-08 Senate Order on Departmental and Agency Contracts listing relating to the period 1 July 2007 – 30 June 2008
Pursuant to the Senate Order on departmental and agency contracts the following table sets out contracts entered into by DVA which provide for a consideration to the value of $100,000 or more and which
- have not been fully performed as at 30 June 2008; or
- which have been entered into during the 12 months prior to 30 June 2008.
Most of the contracts listed contain confidentiality provisions of a general nature that 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.
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Estimated cost of compliance
The estimated cost of complying with the order was $1,900, based on the estimated number of hours involved in preparing and checking the reports (costed at the top increment for the APS 6 level within DVA Enterprise Agreement).