❓ A WA parliamentary question on notice regarding procurement reform, specifically the appointment of Deloitte, the establishment of the Procurement Leaders Council, and the inclusion of savings in budget forward estimates. The Treasurer provides specific dates and details about the council's membership and the mechanisms for achieving savings.
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I refer the Treasurer to the winter 2003 edition of Treasury and Finance News , and ask - (1) Will the Treasurer indicate when consultants Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu were appointed to assist in the procurement reform process? (2) When was the Procurement Leaders Council established and who are its members? (3) Will the Treasurer explain how he can include the targeted procurement reform savings of $230 million in the forward estimates of the budget before Treasury and others have found mechanisms to deliver the savings? Hon NICK GRIFFITHS
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I thank the member for some notice of this question. The Treasurer has provided the following response - (1) Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu was appointed to assist in the procurement reform process on 14 April 2003. (2) The Procurement Leaders Council was established on 17 February 2003 to enhance the strategic focus on procurement across the general government sector and to help operationalise strategies developed by the strategic management council’s procurement reform subcommittee. The council is chaired by Colin Murphy, Executive Director Finance at the Department of Treasury and Finance, and includes the Chief Executive Officer of the State Supply Commission and senior procurement managers from key agencies. The agencies currently represented on the council are the Departments of Justice, Education and Training, Health, Housing and Works, Industry and Resources, Local Government and Regional Development, the Western Australia Police Service, the Public Transport Authority and Main Roads Western Australia. (3) The Functional Review Taskforce concluded in December 2002 that the WA Government could deliver substantial savings by adopting a whole-of-government approach to procurement that was focused on delivering good procurement outcomes through efficiency and effectiveness in managing its spend. The Government has targeted $230 million of savings over the next four years - $30 million in 2004-05, with savings of $100 million in each subsequent year. The mechanisms to deliver the savings have been identified. Much of the savings will come from greater aggregation and new opportunities for common-use contracts, greater compliance in the usage of common-use contracts and standardisation of requirements that allow improved economies of scale.
(1) Will the Treasurer indicate when consultants Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu were appointed to assist in the procurement reform process? (2) When was the Procurement Leaders Council established and who are its members? (3) Will the Treasurer explain how he can include the targeted procurement reform savings of $230 million in the forward estimates of the budget before Treasury and others have found mechanisms to deliver the savings? Hon NICK GRIFFITHS replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. The Treasurer has provided the following response - (1) Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu was appointed to assist in the procurement reform process on 14 April 2003. (2) The Procurement Leaders Council was established on 17 February 2003 to enhance the strategic focus on procurement across the general government sector and to help operationalise strategies developed by the strategic management council’s procurement reform subcommittee. The council is chaired by Colin Murphy, Executive Director Finance at the Department of Treasury and Finance, and includes the Chief Executive Officer of the State Supply Commission and senior procurement managers from key agencies. The agencies currently represented on the council are the Departments of Justice, Education and Training, Health, Housing and Works, Industry and Resources, Local Government and Regional Development, the Western Australia Police Service, the Public Transport Authority and Main Roads Western Australia. (3) The Functional Review Taskforce concluded in December 2002 that the WA Government could deliver substantial savings by adopting a whole-of-government approach to procurement that was focused on delivering good procurement outcomes through efficiency and effectiveness in managing its spend. The Government has targeted $230 million of savings over the next four years - $30 million in 2004-05, with savings of $100 million in each subsequent year. The mechanisms to deliver the savings have been identified. Much of the savings will come from greater aggregation and new opportunities for common-use contracts, greater compliance in the usage of common-use contracts and standardisation of requirements that allow improved economies of scale.
(2) When was the Procurement Leaders Council established and who are its members? (3) Will the Treasurer explain how he can include the targeted procurement reform savings of $230 million in the forward estimates of the budget before Treasury and others have found mechanisms to deliver the savings? Hon NICK GRIFFITHS replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. The Treasurer has provided the following response - (1) Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu was appointed to assist in the procurement reform process on 14 April 2003. (2) The Procurement Leaders Council was established on 17 February 2003 to enhance the strategic focus on procurement across the general government sector and to help operationalise strategies developed by the strategic management council’s procurement reform subcommittee. The council is chaired by Colin Murphy, Executive Director Finance at the Department of Treasury and Finance, and includes the Chief Executive Officer of the State Supply Commission and senior procurement managers from key agencies. The agencies currently represented on the council are the Departments of Justice, Education and Training, Health, Housing and Works, Industry and Resources, Local Government and Regional Development, the Western Australia Police Service, the Public Transport Authority and Main Roads Western Australia. (3) The Functional Review Taskforce concluded in December 2002 that the WA Government could deliver substantial savings by adopting a whole-of-government approach to procurement that was focused on delivering good procurement outcomes through efficiency and effectiveness in managing its spend. The Government has targeted $230 million of savings over the next four years - $30 million in 2004-05, with savings of $100 million in each subsequent year. The mechanisms to deliver the savings have been identified. Much of the savings will come from greater aggregation and new opportunities for common-use contracts, greater compliance in the usage of common-use contracts and standardisation of requirements that allow improved economies of scale.
(3) Will the Treasurer explain how he can include the targeted procurement reform savings of $230 million in the forward estimates of the budget before Treasury and others have found mechanisms to deliver the savings? Hon NICK GRIFFITHS replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. The Treasurer has provided the following response - (1) Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu was appointed to assist in the procurement reform process on 14 April 2003. (2) The Procurement Leaders Council was established on 17 February 2003 to enhance the strategic focus on procurement across the general government sector and to help operationalise strategies developed by the strategic management council’s procurement reform subcommittee. The council is chaired by Colin Murphy, Executive Director Finance at the Department of Treasury and Finance, and includes the Chief Executive Officer of the State Supply Commission and senior procurement managers from key agencies. The agencies currently represented on the council are the Departments of Justice, Education and Training, Health, Housing and Works, Industry and Resources, Local Government and Regional Development, the Western Australia Police Service, the Public Transport Authority and Main Roads Western Australia. (3) The Functional Review Taskforce concluded in December 2002 that the WA Government could deliver substantial savings by adopting a whole-of-government approach to procurement that was focused on delivering good procurement outcomes through efficiency and effectiveness in managing its spend. The Government has targeted $230 million of savings over the next four years - $30 million in 2004-05, with savings of $100 million in each subsequent year. The mechanisms to deliver the savings have been identified. Much of the savings will come from greater aggregation and new opportunities for common-use contracts, greater compliance in the usage of common-use contracts and standardisation of requirements that allow improved economies of scale.
Hon NICK GRIFFITHS replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. The Treasurer has provided the following response - (1) Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu was appointed to assist in the procurement reform process on 14 April 2003. (2) The Procurement Leaders Council was established on 17 February 2003 to enhance the strategic focus on procurement across the general government sector and to help operationalise strategies developed by the strategic management council’s procurement reform subcommittee. The council is chaired by Colin Murphy, Executive Director Finance at the Department of Treasury and Finance, and includes the Chief Executive Officer of the State Supply Commission and senior procurement managers from key agencies. The agencies currently represented on the council are the Departments of Justice, Education and Training, Health, Housing and Works, Industry and Resources, Local Government and Regional Development, the Western Australia Police Service, the Public Transport Authority and Main Roads Western Australia. (3) The Functional Review Taskforce concluded in December 2002 that the WA Government could deliver substantial savings by adopting a whole-of-government approach to procurement that was focused on delivering good procurement outcomes through efficiency and effectiveness in managing its spend. The Government has targeted $230 million of savings over the next four years - $30 million in 2004-05, with savings of $100 million in each subsequent year. The mechanisms to deliver the savings have been identified. Much of the savings will come from greater aggregation and new opportunities for common-use contracts, greater compliance in the usage of common-use contracts and standardisation of requirements that allow improved economies of scale.
I thank the member for some notice of this question. The Treasurer has provided the following response - (1) Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu was appointed to assist in the procurement reform process on 14 April 2003. (2) The Procurement Leaders Council was established on 17 February 2003 to enhance the strategic focus on procurement across the general government sector and to help operationalise strategies developed by the strategic management council’s procurement reform subcommittee. The council is chaired by Colin Murphy, Executive Director Finance at the Department of Treasury and Finance, and includes the Chief Executive Officer of the State Supply Commission and senior procurement managers from key agencies. The agencies currently represented on the council are the Departments of Justice, Education and Training, Health, Housing and Works, Industry and Resources, Local Government and Regional Development, the Western Australia Police Service, the Public Transport Authority and Main Roads Western Australia. (3) The Functional Review Taskforce concluded in December 2002 that the WA Government could deliver substantial savings by adopting a whole-of-government approach to procurement that was focused on delivering good procurement outcomes through efficiency and effectiveness in managing its spend. The Government has targeted $230 million of savings over the next four years - $30 million in 2004-05, with savings of $100 million in each subsequent year. The mechanisms to deliver the savings have been identified. Much of the savings will come from greater aggregation and new opportunities for common-use contracts, greater compliance in the usage of common-use contracts and standardisation of requirements that allow improved economies of scale.
(1) Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu was appointed to assist in the procurement reform process on 14 April 2003. (2) The Procurement Leaders Council was established on 17 February 2003 to enhance the strategic focus on procurement across the general government sector and to help operationalise strategies developed by the strategic management council’s procurement reform subcommittee. The council is chaired by Colin Murphy, Executive Director Finance at the Department of Treasury and Finance, and includes the Chief Executive Officer of the State Supply Commission and senior procurement managers from key agencies. The agencies currently represented on the council are the Departments of Justice, Education and Training, Health, Housing and Works, Industry and Resources, Local Government and Regional Development, the Western Australia Police Service, the Public Transport Authority and Main Roads Western Australia. (3) The Functional Review Taskforce concluded in December 2002 that the WA Government could deliver substantial savings by adopting a whole-of-government approach to procurement that was focused on delivering good procurement outcomes through efficiency and effectiveness in managing its spend. The Government has targeted $230 million of savings over the next four years - $30 million in 2004-05, with savings of $100 million in each subsequent year. The mechanisms to deliver the savings have been identified. Much of the savings will come from greater aggregation and new opportunities for common-use contracts, greater compliance in the usage of common-use contracts and standardisation of requirements that allow improved economies of scale.
(2) The Procurement Leaders Council was established on 17 February 2003 to enhance the strategic focus on procurement across the general government sector and to help operationalise strategies developed by the strategic management council’s procurement reform subcommittee. The council is chaired by Colin Murphy, Executive Director Finance at the Department of Treasury and Finance, and includes the Chief Executive Officer of the State Supply Commission and senior procurement managers from key agencies. The agencies currently represented on the council are the Departments of Justice, Education and Training, Health, Housing and Works, Industry and Resources, Local Government and Regional Development, the Western Australia Police Service, the Public Transport Authority and Main Roads Western Australia. (3) The Functional Review Taskforce concluded in December 2002 that the WA Government could deliver substantial savings by adopting a whole-of-government approach to procurement that was focused on delivering good procurement outcomes through efficiency and effectiveness in managing its spend. The Government has targeted $230 million of savings over the next four years - $30 million in 2004-05, with savings of $100 million in each subsequent year. The mechanisms to deliver the savings have been identified. Much of the savings will come from greater aggregation and new opportunities for common-use contracts, greater compliance in the usage of common-use contracts and standardisation of requirements that allow improved economies of scale.
(3) The Functional Review Taskforce concluded in December 2002 that the WA Government could deliver substantial savings by adopting a whole-of-government approach to procurement that was focused on delivering good procurement outcomes through efficiency and effectiveness in managing its spend. The Government has targeted $230 million of savings over the next four years - $30 million in 2004-05, with savings of $100 million in each subsequent year. The mechanisms to deliver the savings have been identified. Much of the savings will come from greater aggregation and new opportunities for common-use contracts, greater compliance in the usage of common-use contracts and standardisation of requirements that allow improved economies of scale.
(1) Will the Treasurer indicate when consultants Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu were appointed to assist in the procurement reform process? (2) When was the Procurement Leaders Council established and who are its members? (3) Will the Treasurer explain how he can include the targeted procurement reform savings of $230 million in the forward estimates of the budget before Treasury and others have found mechanisms to deliver the savings? Hon NICK GRIFFITHS replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. The Treasurer has provided the following response - (1) Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu was appointed to assist in the procurement reform process on 14 April 2003. (2) The Procurement Leaders Council was established on 17 February 2003 to enhance the strategic focus on procurement across the general government sector and to help operationalise strategies developed by the strategic management council’s procurement reform subcommittee. The council is chaired by Colin Murphy, Executive Director Finance at the Department of Treasury and Finance, and includes the Chief Executive Officer of the State Supply Commission and senior procurement managers from key agencies. The agencies currently represented on the council are the Departments of Justice, Education and Training, Health, Housing and Works, Industry and Resources, Local Government and Regional Development, the Western Australia Police Service, the Public Transport Authority and Main Roads Western Australia. (3) The Functional Review Taskforce concluded in December 2002 that the WA Government could deliver substantial savings by adopting a whole-of-government approach to procurement that was focused on delivering good procurement outcomes through efficiency and effectiveness in managing its spend. The Government has targeted $230 million of savings over the next four years - $30 million in 2004-05, with savings of $100 million in each subsequent year. The mechanisms to deliver the savings have been identified. Much of the savings will come from greater aggregation and new opportunities for common-use contracts, greater compliance in the usage of common-use contracts and standardisation of requirements that allow improved economies of scale.
(2) When was the Procurement Leaders Council established and who are its members? (3) Will the Treasurer explain how he can include the targeted procurement reform savings of $230 million in the forward estimates of the budget before Treasury and others have found mechanisms to deliver the savings? Hon NICK GRIFFITHS replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. The Treasurer has provided the following response - (1) Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu was appointed to assist in the procurement reform process on 14 April 2003. (2) The Procurement Leaders Council was established on 17 February 2003 to enhance the strategic focus on procurement across the general government sector and to help operationalise strategies developed by the strategic management council’s procurement reform subcommittee. The council is chaired by Colin Murphy, Executive Director Finance at the Department of Treasury and Finance, and includes the Chief Executive Officer of the State Supply Commission and senior procurement managers from key agencies. The agencies currently represented on the council are the Departments of Justice, Education and Training, Health, Housing and Works, Industry and Resources, Local Government and Regional Development, the Western Australia Police Service, the Public Transport Authority and Main Roads Western Australia. (3) The Functional Review Taskforce concluded in December 2002 that the WA Government could deliver substantial savings by adopting a whole-of-government approach to procurement that was focused on delivering good procurement outcomes through efficiency and effectiveness in managing its spend. The Government has targeted $230 million of savings over the next four years - $30 million in 2004-05, with savings of $100 million in each subsequent year. The mechanisms to deliver the savings have been identified. Much of the savings will come from greater aggregation and new opportunities for common-use contracts, greater compliance in the usage of common-use contracts and standardisation of requirements that allow improved economies of scale.
(3) Will the Treasurer explain how he can include the targeted procurement reform savings of $230 million in the forward estimates of the budget before Treasury and others have found mechanisms to deliver the savings? Hon NICK GRIFFITHS replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. The Treasurer has provided the following response - (1) Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu was appointed to assist in the procurement reform process on 14 April 2003. (2) The Procurement Leaders Council was established on 17 February 2003 to enhance the strategic focus on procurement across the general government sector and to help operationalise strategies developed by the strategic management council’s procurement reform subcommittee. The council is chaired by Colin Murphy, Executive Director Finance at the Department of Treasury and Finance, and includes the Chief Executive Officer of the State Supply Commission and senior procurement managers from key agencies. The agencies currently represented on the council are the Departments of Justice, Education and Training, Health, Housing and Works, Industry and Resources, Local Government and Regional Development, the Western Australia Police Service, the Public Transport Authority and Main Roads Western Australia. (3) The Functional Review Taskforce concluded in December 2002 that the WA Government could deliver substantial savings by adopting a whole-of-government approach to procurement that was focused on delivering good procurement outcomes through efficiency and effectiveness in managing its spend. The Government has targeted $230 million of savings over the next four years - $30 million in 2004-05, with savings of $100 million in each subsequent year. The mechanisms to deliver the savings have been identified. Much of the savings will come from greater aggregation and new opportunities for common-use contracts, greater compliance in the usage of common-use contracts and standardisation of requirements that allow improved economies of scale.
Hon NICK GRIFFITHS replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. The Treasurer has provided the following response - (1) Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu was appointed to assist in the procurement reform process on 14 April 2003. (2) The Procurement Leaders Council was established on 17 February 2003 to enhance the strategic focus on procurement across the general government sector and to help operationalise strategies developed by the strategic management council’s procurement reform subcommittee. The council is chaired by Colin Murphy, Executive Director Finance at the Department of Treasury and Finance, and includes the Chief Executive Officer of the State Supply Commission and senior procurement managers from key agencies. The agencies currently represented on the council are the Departments of Justice, Education and Training, Health, Housing and Works, Industry and Resources, Local Government and Regional Development, the Western Australia Police Service, the Public Transport Authority and Main Roads Western Australia. (3) The Functional Review Taskforce concluded in December 2002 that the WA Government could deliver substantial savings by adopting a whole-of-government approach to procurement that was focused on delivering good procurement outcomes through efficiency and effectiveness in managing its spend. The Government has targeted $230 million of savings over the next four years - $30 million in 2004-05, with savings of $100 million in each subsequent year. The mechanisms to deliver the savings have been identified. Much of the savings will come from greater aggregation and new opportunities for common-use contracts, greater compliance in the usage of common-use contracts and standardisation of requirements that allow improved economies of scale.
I thank the member for some notice of this question. The Treasurer has provided the following response - (1) Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu was appointed to assist in the procurement reform process on 14 April 2003. (2) The Procurement Leaders Council was established on 17 February 2003 to enhance the strategic focus on procurement across the general government sector and to help operationalise strategies developed by the strategic management council’s procurement reform subcommittee. The council is chaired by Colin Murphy, Executive Director Finance at the Department of Treasury and Finance, and includes the Chief Executive Officer of the State Supply Commission and senior procurement managers from key agencies. The agencies currently represented on the council are the Departments of Justice, Education and Training, Health, Housing and Works, Industry and Resources, Local Government and Regional Development, the Western Australia Police Service, the Public Transport Authority and Main Roads Western Australia. (3) The Functional Review Taskforce concluded in December 2002 that the WA Government could deliver substantial savings by adopting a whole-of-government approach to procurement that was focused on delivering good procurement outcomes through efficiency and effectiveness in managing its spend. The Government has targeted $230 million of savings over the next four years - $30 million in 2004-05, with savings of $100 million in each subsequent year. The mechanisms to deliver the savings have been identified. Much of the savings will come from greater aggregation and new opportunities for common-use contracts, greater compliance in the usage of common-use contracts and standardisation of requirements that allow improved economies of scale.
(1) Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu was appointed to assist in the procurement reform process on 14 April 2003. (2) The Procurement Leaders Council was established on 17 February 2003 to enhance the strategic focus on procurement across the general government sector and to help operationalise strategies developed by the strategic management council’s procurement reform subcommittee. The council is chaired by Colin Murphy, Executive Director Finance at the Department of Treasury and Finance, and includes the Chief Executive Officer of the State Supply Commission and senior procurement managers from key agencies. The agencies currently represented on the council are the Departments of Justice, Education and Training, Health, Housing and Works, Industry and Resources, Local Government and Regional Development, the Western Australia Police Service, the Public Transport Authority and Main Roads Western Australia. (3) The Functional Review Taskforce concluded in December 2002 that the WA Government could deliver substantial savings by adopting a whole-of-government approach to procurement that was focused on delivering good procurement outcomes through efficiency and effectiveness in managing its spend. The Government has targeted $230 million of savings over the next four years - $30 million in 2004-05, with savings of $100 million in each subsequent year. The mechanisms to deliver the savings have been identified. Much of the savings will come from greater aggregation and new opportunities for common-use contracts, greater compliance in the usage of common-use contracts and standardisation of requirements that allow improved economies of scale.
(2) The Procurement Leaders Council was established on 17 February 2003 to enhance the strategic focus on procurement across the general government sector and to help operationalise strategies developed by the strategic management council’s procurement reform subcommittee. The council is chaired by Colin Murphy, Executive Director Finance at the Department of Treasury and Finance, and includes the Chief Executive Officer of the State Supply Commission and senior procurement managers from key agencies. The agencies currently represented on the council are the Departments of Justice, Education and Training, Health, Housing and Works, Industry and Resources, Local Government and Regional Development, the Western Australia Police Service, the Public Transport Authority and Main Roads Western Australia. (3) The Functional Review Taskforce concluded in December 2002 that the WA Government could deliver substantial savings by adopting a whole-of-government approach to procurement that was focused on delivering good procurement outcomes through efficiency and effectiveness in managing its spend. The Government has targeted $230 million of savings over the next four years - $30 million in 2004-05, with savings of $100 million in each subsequent year. The mechanisms to deliver the savings have been identified. Much of the savings will come from greater aggregation and new opportunities for common-use contracts, greater compliance in the usage of common-use contracts and standardisation of requirements that allow improved economies of scale.
(3) The Functional Review Taskforce concluded in December 2002 that the WA Government could deliver substantial savings by adopting a whole-of-government approach to procurement that was focused on delivering good procurement outcomes through efficiency and effectiveness in managing its spend. The Government has targeted $230 million of savings over the next four years - $30 million in 2004-05, with savings of $100 million in each subsequent year. The mechanisms to deliver the savings have been identified. Much of the savings will come from greater aggregation and new opportunities for common-use contracts, greater compliance in the usage of common-use contracts and standardisation of requirements that allow improved economies of scale.
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