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Senate Order on Entity Contracts 2019-20 Financial Year NIAA

NIAAWho We AreAccountability and Reporting
Monday, 24 August 2020
Publication author(s):
National Indigenous Australians Agency
Publication abstract:

Pursuant to the Senate Order on Entity Contracts the following table sets out contracts entered into by the National Indigenous Australians Agency (NIAA), which provide for a consideration to the value of $100,000 or more (GST inclusive) and which have:

  1. not been fully performed as at the end of the reporting period; and/or
  2. been entered into during the 12 months prior to the end of the reporting period.

Some 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, propriety information and the like, and/or
  • protection of other Commonwealth material and personal information.

NIAA has assured that the listed contracts do not contain any inappropriate confidentiality provisions.

NIAA’s procurement contracts are available through the Senate Order Report on  AusTender.

Estimated cost of complying with this order: $1,000

Method used to estimate the cost: Applying salary and on-costs to the number of hours spent by staff across various classifications to collect and analyse the information.

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