❓ A parliamentary question regarding the delegation of tendering policy exemptions to the Director General of the Department of Housing and Works, and whether criteria for these exemptions have been provided or will be provided. The Minister states that he has delegated the ability to exempt particular contracts and that he is still consulting with industry on the operation of the policy, so a decision on criteria has not yet been made.
AnsweredQoN 959Legislative Council
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I understand that the minister intends to remove himself from the process of determining exemptions from parts of his new tendering policy and to give that task to the director general of the department. (1) Has he provided the director general with a set of criteria that will apply to the determination of these exemptions? (2) If not, does he intend to provide the director general with those criteria? (3) If yes to (1) or (2), will he table those criteria? (4) If not, why not? Hon TOM STEPHENS
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I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1)-(4) Consistent with regular practice in operational matters of this sort, I have delegated the ability to exempt particular contracts in levels 3, 4 and 5, and the requirement to consider whether the distribution of contracts-risk management policy applies to each individual level 6 contract to the Director General of the Department of Housing and Works. As I am still consulting with industry on the operation of the policy, a decision on whether criteria are necessary and, if so, what they will contain has not yet been made.
(1) Has he provided the director general with a set of criteria that will apply to the determination of these exemptions? (2) If not, does he intend to provide the director general with those criteria? (3) If yes to (1) or (2), will he table those criteria? (4) If not, why not? Hon TOM STEPHENS replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1)-(4) Consistent with regular practice in operational matters of this sort, I have delegated the ability to exempt particular contracts in levels 3, 4 and 5, and the requirement to consider whether the distribution of contracts-risk management policy applies to each individual level 6 contract to the Director General of the Department of Housing and Works. As I am still consulting with industry on the operation of the policy, a decision on whether criteria are necessary and, if so, what they will contain has not yet been made.
(2) If not, does he intend to provide the director general with those criteria? (3) If yes to (1) or (2), will he table those criteria? (4) If not, why not? Hon TOM STEPHENS replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1)-(4) Consistent with regular practice in operational matters of this sort, I have delegated the ability to exempt particular contracts in levels 3, 4 and 5, and the requirement to consider whether the distribution of contracts-risk management policy applies to each individual level 6 contract to the Director General of the Department of Housing and Works. As I am still consulting with industry on the operation of the policy, a decision on whether criteria are necessary and, if so, what they will contain has not yet been made.
(3) If yes to (1) or (2), will he table those criteria? (4) If not, why not? Hon TOM STEPHENS replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1)-(4) Consistent with regular practice in operational matters of this sort, I have delegated the ability to exempt particular contracts in levels 3, 4 and 5, and the requirement to consider whether the distribution of contracts-risk management policy applies to each individual level 6 contract to the Director General of the Department of Housing and Works. As I am still consulting with industry on the operation of the policy, a decision on whether criteria are necessary and, if so, what they will contain has not yet been made.
(4) If not, why not? Hon TOM STEPHENS replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1)-(4) Consistent with regular practice in operational matters of this sort, I have delegated the ability to exempt particular contracts in levels 3, 4 and 5, and the requirement to consider whether the distribution of contracts-risk management policy applies to each individual level 6 contract to the Director General of the Department of Housing and Works. As I am still consulting with industry on the operation of the policy, a decision on whether criteria are necessary and, if so, what they will contain has not yet been made.
Hon TOM STEPHENS replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1)-(4) Consistent with regular practice in operational matters of this sort, I have delegated the ability to exempt particular contracts in levels 3, 4 and 5, and the requirement to consider whether the distribution of contracts-risk management policy applies to each individual level 6 contract to the Director General of the Department of Housing and Works. As I am still consulting with industry on the operation of the policy, a decision on whether criteria are necessary and, if so, what they will contain has not yet been made.
I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1)-(4) Consistent with regular practice in operational matters of this sort, I have delegated the ability to exempt particular contracts in levels 3, 4 and 5, and the requirement to consider whether the distribution of contracts-risk management policy applies to each individual level 6 contract to the Director General of the Department of Housing and Works. As I am still consulting with industry on the operation of the policy, a decision on whether criteria are necessary and, if so, what they will contain has not yet been made.
(1)-(4) Consistent with regular practice in operational matters of this sort, I have delegated the ability to exempt particular contracts in levels 3, 4 and 5, and the requirement to consider whether the distribution of contracts-risk management policy applies to each individual level 6 contract to the Director General of the Department of Housing and Works. As I am still consulting with industry on the operation of the policy, a decision on whether criteria are necessary and, if so, what they will contain has not yet been made.
(1) Has he provided the director general with a set of criteria that will apply to the determination of these exemptions? (2) If not, does he intend to provide the director general with those criteria? (3) If yes to (1) or (2), will he table those criteria? (4) If not, why not? Hon TOM STEPHENS replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1)-(4) Consistent with regular practice in operational matters of this sort, I have delegated the ability to exempt particular contracts in levels 3, 4 and 5, and the requirement to consider whether the distribution of contracts-risk management policy applies to each individual level 6 contract to the Director General of the Department of Housing and Works. As I am still consulting with industry on the operation of the policy, a decision on whether criteria are necessary and, if so, what they will contain has not yet been made.
(2) If not, does he intend to provide the director general with those criteria? (3) If yes to (1) or (2), will he table those criteria? (4) If not, why not? Hon TOM STEPHENS replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1)-(4) Consistent with regular practice in operational matters of this sort, I have delegated the ability to exempt particular contracts in levels 3, 4 and 5, and the requirement to consider whether the distribution of contracts-risk management policy applies to each individual level 6 contract to the Director General of the Department of Housing and Works. As I am still consulting with industry on the operation of the policy, a decision on whether criteria are necessary and, if so, what they will contain has not yet been made.
(3) If yes to (1) or (2), will he table those criteria? (4) If not, why not? Hon TOM STEPHENS replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1)-(4) Consistent with regular practice in operational matters of this sort, I have delegated the ability to exempt particular contracts in levels 3, 4 and 5, and the requirement to consider whether the distribution of contracts-risk management policy applies to each individual level 6 contract to the Director General of the Department of Housing and Works. As I am still consulting with industry on the operation of the policy, a decision on whether criteria are necessary and, if so, what they will contain has not yet been made.
(4) If not, why not? Hon TOM STEPHENS replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1)-(4) Consistent with regular practice in operational matters of this sort, I have delegated the ability to exempt particular contracts in levels 3, 4 and 5, and the requirement to consider whether the distribution of contracts-risk management policy applies to each individual level 6 contract to the Director General of the Department of Housing and Works. As I am still consulting with industry on the operation of the policy, a decision on whether criteria are necessary and, if so, what they will contain has not yet been made.
Hon TOM STEPHENS replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1)-(4) Consistent with regular practice in operational matters of this sort, I have delegated the ability to exempt particular contracts in levels 3, 4 and 5, and the requirement to consider whether the distribution of contracts-risk management policy applies to each individual level 6 contract to the Director General of the Department of Housing and Works. As I am still consulting with industry on the operation of the policy, a decision on whether criteria are necessary and, if so, what they will contain has not yet been made.
I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1)-(4) Consistent with regular practice in operational matters of this sort, I have delegated the ability to exempt particular contracts in levels 3, 4 and 5, and the requirement to consider whether the distribution of contracts-risk management policy applies to each individual level 6 contract to the Director General of the Department of Housing and Works. As I am still consulting with industry on the operation of the policy, a decision on whether criteria are necessary and, if so, what they will contain has not yet been made.
(1)-(4) Consistent with regular practice in operational matters of this sort, I have delegated the ability to exempt particular contracts in levels 3, 4 and 5, and the requirement to consider whether the distribution of contracts-risk management policy applies to each individual level 6 contract to the Director General of the Department of Housing and Works. As I am still consulting with industry on the operation of the policy, a decision on whether criteria are necessary and, if so, what they will contain has not yet been made.
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