❓ A WA parliamentary question seeks details on Landgate's new Land Registry Platform, Advara, and associated commercial activities, including IT contracts and travel expenses. The answer provides details of contracts, travel dates, costs, and contributing entities.
AnsweredQoN 5521Legislative Assembly
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I refer to Landgate’s new Land Registry Platform, the establishment of Advara and the pursuit of the “commercial opportunities using the new land registry platform” as outlined in the Minister’s Statement of 16 June 2016, and I ask: (a) which company or companies have been engaged by either Landgate or Advara to perform IT or other services associated with the new Land Registry Platform; (b) for each company outlined in (a): (i) what is the nature of the services provided; and (ii) did the engagement of the company go to tender or through an expression of interest or similar process and, if not, why not; (c) since 1 July 2015, please outline all travel undertaken by Landgate staff and/or Board members in relation to the new Land Registry Platform regime, detailing: (i) the date/s of the travel; (ii) whether the travel undertaken for training or instructional purposes and, if not, what was the purpose of the travel; (iii) the names of the Landgate staff or Board members who undertook the travel; (iv) the location of the travel by city and country; and (v) the cost of the travel, including airfares, accommodation, entertainment and other expenses; and (d) in relation to the cost of travel outlined in (c), could the Minister provide for each occasion that travel occurred: (i) a breakdown of the costs borne by Landgate; and (ii) a breakdown of the costs borne by another entity, organisation or company, including the name of that entity, organisation or company?
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Answered
16 August 2016
Responded by
Minister for Lands
Response time
49 days
(a)
(b) (i)
(b) (ii)
Ajilon Australia Pty Ltd
Application Development
Existing Landgate contract, engaged in 2009 via Open Tender process
Kinetic IT
Infrastructure Services
Existing Landgate contract, engaged in 2008 via Open Tender process
Amazon Web Services
Cloud Services
Direct purchase (less than $50K) – variable consumption per month
Fuji Xerox Business Force Pty Ltd
Document scanning services
Existing Landgate contract, engaged in 2012 via Open Tender process
ESRI Australia Pty Ltd
Software and product consulting services
Existing Landgate contract, engaged in 2015 via direct negotiation under a supported exemption from the State Supply Commission’s Open and Effective Competition Policy.
(c) (i) August (9-12) 2015
May (29-31) 2016
(ii) August 2015 – Attend a workshop at the invitation of Land Information New Zealand (NZ Government) to explore how commercial and funding models, using Landgate’s IP, may be structured.
May 2016 - Briefing on NSW LPI process and capability of New Land Registry platform to deliver services.
(iii) August 2015 - Mike Bradford, Chief Executive and David Dans, CIO
May 2016 - Mike Bradford, Chief Executive; John Wreford, GM Finance Information and Legal Services, Portfolio Director Land Registry Commercialisation and Chris Hill, Principal Consultant Business Development.
(iv) August 2015 – Wellington, New Zealand
May 2016 - Sydney, Australia
(v) August 2015 – $4938.44
May 2016 - $4252.68
(d) (i) All costs borne by Landgate
(ii) 1x working breakfast paid by Ernst & Young (EY) ($77.59)
1x working lunch paid by EY/Optimation ($114)
1x working dinner paid by Lazard/Ajilon ($252)
(b) (i)
(b) (ii)
Ajilon Australia Pty Ltd
Application Development
Existing Landgate contract, engaged in 2009 via Open Tender process
Kinetic IT
Infrastructure Services
Existing Landgate contract, engaged in 2008 via Open Tender process
Amazon Web Services
Cloud Services
Direct purchase (less than $50K) – variable consumption per month
Fuji Xerox Business Force Pty Ltd
Document scanning services
Existing Landgate contract, engaged in 2012 via Open Tender process
ESRI Australia Pty Ltd
Software and product consulting services
Existing Landgate contract, engaged in 2015 via direct negotiation under a supported exemption from the State Supply Commission’s Open and Effective Competition Policy.
(c) (i) August (9-12) 2015
May (29-31) 2016
(ii) August 2015 – Attend a workshop at the invitation of Land Information New Zealand (NZ Government) to explore how commercial and funding models, using Landgate’s IP, may be structured.
May 2016 - Briefing on NSW LPI process and capability of New Land Registry platform to deliver services.
(iii) August 2015 - Mike Bradford, Chief Executive and David Dans, CIO
May 2016 - Mike Bradford, Chief Executive; John Wreford, GM Finance Information and Legal Services, Portfolio Director Land Registry Commercialisation and Chris Hill, Principal Consultant Business Development.
(iv) August 2015 – Wellington, New Zealand
May 2016 - Sydney, Australia
(v) August 2015 – $4938.44
May 2016 - $4252.68
(d) (i) All costs borne by Landgate
(ii) 1x working breakfast paid by Ernst & Young (EY) ($77.59)
1x working lunch paid by EY/Optimation ($114)
1x working dinner paid by Lazard/Ajilon ($252)
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