❓ A WA parliamentary question seeks details on payments to Prognosis Consulting and Ross Keesing for health consulting services, including whether contracts were competitively tendered. The Minister provides a breakdown of payments and confirms a tender process.
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PROGNOSIS CONSULTING
(1) Is the minister aware that Prognosis Consulting or Ross Keesing operating as an employee of Prognosis Consulting was paid $465 639 for consulting to the director general of health for 2005-06? (2) Please outline each separate project for which Prognosis Consulting or Ross Keesing received a separate payment? (3) Was each of the consulting services that Ross Keesing or Prognosis Consulting provided won in a competitive tender process? (4) If yes to (3), please outline the process undertaken? (5) If no to (3), on what basis was Ross Keesing or Prognosis Consulting engaged? (6) How much has the government paid to Ross Keesing or Prognosis Consulting during 2006-07 to date? Hon SUE ELLERY
(1) Is the minister aware that Prognosis Consulting or Ross Keesing operating as an employee of Prognosis Consulting was paid $465 639 for consulting to the director general of health for 2005-06? (2) Please outline each separate project for which Prognosis Consulting or Ross Keesing received a separate payment? (3) Was each of the consulting services that Ross Keesing or Prognosis Consulting provided won in a competitive tender process? (4) If yes to (3), please outline the process undertaken? (5) If no to (3), on what basis was Ross Keesing or Prognosis Consulting engaged? (6) How much has the government paid to Ross Keesing or Prognosis Consulting during 2006-07 to date? Hon SUE ELLERY
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I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) No. (2) For 2005-06 Ross Keesing received nil payment. Prognosis Consulting received the following: advice on infrastructure-related health reform to the Health Reform Implementation Task Force and the Department of Health, $368 389; advice on specific health capital works projects to area chief executives $56 600; project director, Geraldton health campus redevelopment, to WA Country Health Service, $40 650. (3) Ross Keesing - not applicable. Prognosis Consulting - yes. (4) Publicly advertised tender with competitive selection process. (5) Not applicable. (6) Ross Keesing - nil. Prognosis Consulting - $363 452.28 during what this written response indicates as 2006-06, but it must be 2005-06. Hon Anthony Fels : The question referred to “2006-07 to date”. Hon SUE ELLERY : I will check the date, so that I am not giving an incorrect answer.
(2) Please outline each separate project for which Prognosis Consulting or Ross Keesing received a separate payment? (3) Was each of the consulting services that Ross Keesing or Prognosis Consulting provided won in a competitive tender process? (4) If yes to (3), please outline the process undertaken? (5) If no to (3), on what basis was Ross Keesing or Prognosis Consulting engaged? (6) How much has the government paid to Ross Keesing or Prognosis Consulting during 2006-07 to date? Hon SUE ELLERY replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) No. (2) For 2005-06 Ross Keesing received nil payment. Prognosis Consulting received the following: advice on infrastructure-related health reform to the Health Reform Implementation Task Force and the Department of Health, $368 389; advice on specific health capital works projects to area chief executives $56 600; project director, Geraldton health campus redevelopment, to WA Country Health Service, $40 650. (3) Ross Keesing - not applicable. Prognosis Consulting - yes. (4) Publicly advertised tender with competitive selection process. (5) Not applicable. (6) Ross Keesing - nil. Prognosis Consulting - $363 452.28 during what this written response indicates as 2006-06, but it must be 2005-06. Hon Anthony Fels : The question referred to “2006-07 to date”. Hon SUE ELLERY : I will check the date, so that I am not giving an incorrect answer.
(3) Was each of the consulting services that Ross Keesing or Prognosis Consulting provided won in a competitive tender process? (4) If yes to (3), please outline the process undertaken? (5) If no to (3), on what basis was Ross Keesing or Prognosis Consulting engaged? (6) How much has the government paid to Ross Keesing or Prognosis Consulting during 2006-07 to date? Hon SUE ELLERY replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) No. (2) For 2005-06 Ross Keesing received nil payment. Prognosis Consulting received the following: advice on infrastructure-related health reform to the Health Reform Implementation Task Force and the Department of Health, $368 389; advice on specific health capital works projects to area chief executives $56 600; project director, Geraldton health campus redevelopment, to WA Country Health Service, $40 650. (3) Ross Keesing - not applicable. Prognosis Consulting - yes. (4) Publicly advertised tender with competitive selection process. (5) Not applicable. (6) Ross Keesing - nil. Prognosis Consulting - $363 452.28 during what this written response indicates as 2006-06, but it must be 2005-06. Hon Anthony Fels : The question referred to “2006-07 to date”. Hon SUE ELLERY : I will check the date, so that I am not giving an incorrect answer.
(4) If yes to (3), please outline the process undertaken? (5) If no to (3), on what basis was Ross Keesing or Prognosis Consulting engaged? (6) How much has the government paid to Ross Keesing or Prognosis Consulting during 2006-07 to date? Hon SUE ELLERY replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) No. (2) For 2005-06 Ross Keesing received nil payment. Prognosis Consulting received the following: advice on infrastructure-related health reform to the Health Reform Implementation Task Force and the Department of Health, $368 389; advice on specific health capital works projects to area chief executives $56 600; project director, Geraldton health campus redevelopment, to WA Country Health Service, $40 650. (3) Ross Keesing - not applicable. Prognosis Consulting - yes. (4) Publicly advertised tender with competitive selection process. (5) Not applicable. (6) Ross Keesing - nil. Prognosis Consulting - $363 452.28 during what this written response indicates as 2006-06, but it must be 2005-06. Hon Anthony Fels : The question referred to “2006-07 to date”. Hon SUE ELLERY : I will check the date, so that I am not giving an incorrect answer.
(5) If no to (3), on what basis was Ross Keesing or Prognosis Consulting engaged? (6) How much has the government paid to Ross Keesing or Prognosis Consulting during 2006-07 to date? Hon SUE ELLERY replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) No. (2) For 2005-06 Ross Keesing received nil payment. Prognosis Consulting received the following: advice on infrastructure-related health reform to the Health Reform Implementation Task Force and the Department of Health, $368 389; advice on specific health capital works projects to area chief executives $56 600; project director, Geraldton health campus redevelopment, to WA Country Health Service, $40 650. (3) Ross Keesing - not applicable. Prognosis Consulting - yes. (4) Publicly advertised tender with competitive selection process. (5) Not applicable. (6) Ross Keesing - nil. Prognosis Consulting - $363 452.28 during what this written response indicates as 2006-06, but it must be 2005-06. Hon Anthony Fels : The question referred to “2006-07 to date”. Hon SUE ELLERY : I will check the date, so that I am not giving an incorrect answer.
(6) How much has the government paid to Ross Keesing or Prognosis Consulting during 2006-07 to date? Hon SUE ELLERY replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) No. (2) For 2005-06 Ross Keesing received nil payment. Prognosis Consulting received the following: advice on infrastructure-related health reform to the Health Reform Implementation Task Force and the Department of Health, $368 389; advice on specific health capital works projects to area chief executives $56 600; project director, Geraldton health campus redevelopment, to WA Country Health Service, $40 650. (3) Ross Keesing - not applicable. Prognosis Consulting - yes. (4) Publicly advertised tender with competitive selection process. (5) Not applicable. (6) Ross Keesing - nil. Prognosis Consulting - $363 452.28 during what this written response indicates as 2006-06, but it must be 2005-06. Hon Anthony Fels : The question referred to “2006-07 to date”. Hon SUE ELLERY : I will check the date, so that I am not giving an incorrect answer.
Hon SUE ELLERY replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) No. (2) For 2005-06 Ross Keesing received nil payment. Prognosis Consulting received the following: advice on infrastructure-related health reform to the Health Reform Implementation Task Force and the Department of Health, $368 389; advice on specific health capital works projects to area chief executives $56 600; project director, Geraldton health campus redevelopment, to WA Country Health Service, $40 650. (3) Ross Keesing - not applicable. Prognosis Consulting - yes. (4) Publicly advertised tender with competitive selection process. (5) Not applicable. (6) Ross Keesing - nil. Prognosis Consulting - $363 452.28 during what this written response indicates as 2006-06, but it must be 2005-06. Hon Anthony Fels : The question referred to “2006-07 to date”. Hon SUE ELLERY : I will check the date, so that I am not giving an incorrect answer.
I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) No. (2) For 2005-06 Ross Keesing received nil payment. Prognosis Consulting received the following: advice on infrastructure-related health reform to the Health Reform Implementation Task Force and the Department of Health, $368 389; advice on specific health capital works projects to area chief executives $56 600; project director, Geraldton health campus redevelopment, to WA Country Health Service, $40 650. (3) Ross Keesing - not applicable. Prognosis Consulting - yes. (4) Publicly advertised tender with competitive selection process. (5) Not applicable. (6) Ross Keesing - nil. Prognosis Consulting - $363 452.28 during what this written response indicates as 2006-06, but it must be 2005-06. Hon Anthony Fels : The question referred to “2006-07 to date”. Hon SUE ELLERY : I will check the date, so that I am not giving an incorrect answer.
(1) No. (2) For 2005-06 Ross Keesing received nil payment. Prognosis Consulting received the following: advice on infrastructure-related health reform to the Health Reform Implementation Task Force and the Department of Health, $368 389; advice on specific health capital works projects to area chief executives $56 600; project director, Geraldton health campus redevelopment, to WA Country Health Service, $40 650. (3) Ross Keesing - not applicable. Prognosis Consulting - yes. (4) Publicly advertised tender with competitive selection process. (5) Not applicable. (6) Ross Keesing - nil. Prognosis Consulting - $363 452.28 during what this written response indicates as 2006-06, but it must be 2005-06. Hon Anthony Fels : The question referred to “2006-07 to date”. Hon SUE ELLERY : I will check the date, so that I am not giving an incorrect answer.
(2) For 2005-06 Ross Keesing received nil payment. Prognosis Consulting received the following: advice on infrastructure-related health reform to the Health Reform Implementation Task Force and the Department of Health, $368 389; advice on specific health capital works projects to area chief executives $56 600; project director, Geraldton health campus redevelopment, to WA Country Health Service, $40 650. (3) Ross Keesing - not applicable. Prognosis Consulting - yes. (4) Publicly advertised tender with competitive selection process. (5) Not applicable. (6) Ross Keesing - nil. Prognosis Consulting - $363 452.28 during what this written response indicates as 2006-06, but it must be 2005-06. Hon Anthony Fels : The question referred to “2006-07 to date”. Hon SUE ELLERY : I will check the date, so that I am not giving an incorrect answer.
(3) Ross Keesing - not applicable. Prognosis Consulting - yes. (4) Publicly advertised tender with competitive selection process. (5) Not applicable. (6) Ross Keesing - nil. Prognosis Consulting - $363 452.28 during what this written response indicates as 2006-06, but it must be 2005-06. Hon Anthony Fels : The question referred to “2006-07 to date”. Hon SUE ELLERY : I will check the date, so that I am not giving an incorrect answer.
(4) Publicly advertised tender with competitive selection process. (5) Not applicable. (6) Ross Keesing - nil. Prognosis Consulting - $363 452.28 during what this written response indicates as 2006-06, but it must be 2005-06. Hon Anthony Fels : The question referred to “2006-07 to date”. Hon SUE ELLERY : I will check the date, so that I am not giving an incorrect answer.
(5) Not applicable. (6) Ross Keesing - nil. Prognosis Consulting - $363 452.28 during what this written response indicates as 2006-06, but it must be 2005-06. Hon Anthony Fels : The question referred to “2006-07 to date”. Hon SUE ELLERY : I will check the date, so that I am not giving an incorrect answer.
(6) Ross Keesing - nil. Prognosis Consulting - $363 452.28 during what this written response indicates as 2006-06, but it must be 2005-06. Hon Anthony Fels : The question referred to “2006-07 to date”. Hon SUE ELLERY : I will check the date, so that I am not giving an incorrect answer.
Hon Anthony Fels : The question referred to “2006-07 to date”. Hon SUE ELLERY : I will check the date, so that I am not giving an incorrect answer.
Hon SUE ELLERY : I will check the date, so that I am not giving an incorrect answer.
(2) Please outline each separate project for which Prognosis Consulting or Ross Keesing received a separate payment? (3) Was each of the consulting services that Ross Keesing or Prognosis Consulting provided won in a competitive tender process? (4) If yes to (3), please outline the process undertaken? (5) If no to (3), on what basis was Ross Keesing or Prognosis Consulting engaged? (6) How much has the government paid to Ross Keesing or Prognosis Consulting during 2006-07 to date? Hon SUE ELLERY replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) No. (2) For 2005-06 Ross Keesing received nil payment. Prognosis Consulting received the following: advice on infrastructure-related health reform to the Health Reform Implementation Task Force and the Department of Health, $368 389; advice on specific health capital works projects to area chief executives $56 600; project director, Geraldton health campus redevelopment, to WA Country Health Service, $40 650. (3) Ross Keesing - not applicable. Prognosis Consulting - yes. (4) Publicly advertised tender with competitive selection process. (5) Not applicable. (6) Ross Keesing - nil. Prognosis Consulting - $363 452.28 during what this written response indicates as 2006-06, but it must be 2005-06. Hon Anthony Fels : The question referred to “2006-07 to date”. Hon SUE ELLERY : I will check the date, so that I am not giving an incorrect answer.
(3) Was each of the consulting services that Ross Keesing or Prognosis Consulting provided won in a competitive tender process? (4) If yes to (3), please outline the process undertaken? (5) If no to (3), on what basis was Ross Keesing or Prognosis Consulting engaged? (6) How much has the government paid to Ross Keesing or Prognosis Consulting during 2006-07 to date? Hon SUE ELLERY replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) No. (2) For 2005-06 Ross Keesing received nil payment. Prognosis Consulting received the following: advice on infrastructure-related health reform to the Health Reform Implementation Task Force and the Department of Health, $368 389; advice on specific health capital works projects to area chief executives $56 600; project director, Geraldton health campus redevelopment, to WA Country Health Service, $40 650. (3) Ross Keesing - not applicable. Prognosis Consulting - yes. (4) Publicly advertised tender with competitive selection process. (5) Not applicable. (6) Ross Keesing - nil. Prognosis Consulting - $363 452.28 during what this written response indicates as 2006-06, but it must be 2005-06. Hon Anthony Fels : The question referred to “2006-07 to date”. Hon SUE ELLERY : I will check the date, so that I am not giving an incorrect answer.
(4) If yes to (3), please outline the process undertaken? (5) If no to (3), on what basis was Ross Keesing or Prognosis Consulting engaged? (6) How much has the government paid to Ross Keesing or Prognosis Consulting during 2006-07 to date? Hon SUE ELLERY replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) No. (2) For 2005-06 Ross Keesing received nil payment. Prognosis Consulting received the following: advice on infrastructure-related health reform to the Health Reform Implementation Task Force and the Department of Health, $368 389; advice on specific health capital works projects to area chief executives $56 600; project director, Geraldton health campus redevelopment, to WA Country Health Service, $40 650. (3) Ross Keesing - not applicable. Prognosis Consulting - yes. (4) Publicly advertised tender with competitive selection process. (5) Not applicable. (6) Ross Keesing - nil. Prognosis Consulting - $363 452.28 during what this written response indicates as 2006-06, but it must be 2005-06. Hon Anthony Fels : The question referred to “2006-07 to date”. Hon SUE ELLERY : I will check the date, so that I am not giving an incorrect answer.
(5) If no to (3), on what basis was Ross Keesing or Prognosis Consulting engaged? (6) How much has the government paid to Ross Keesing or Prognosis Consulting during 2006-07 to date? Hon SUE ELLERY replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) No. (2) For 2005-06 Ross Keesing received nil payment. Prognosis Consulting received the following: advice on infrastructure-related health reform to the Health Reform Implementation Task Force and the Department of Health, $368 389; advice on specific health capital works projects to area chief executives $56 600; project director, Geraldton health campus redevelopment, to WA Country Health Service, $40 650. (3) Ross Keesing - not applicable. Prognosis Consulting - yes. (4) Publicly advertised tender with competitive selection process. (5) Not applicable. (6) Ross Keesing - nil. Prognosis Consulting - $363 452.28 during what this written response indicates as 2006-06, but it must be 2005-06. Hon Anthony Fels : The question referred to “2006-07 to date”. Hon SUE ELLERY : I will check the date, so that I am not giving an incorrect answer.
(6) How much has the government paid to Ross Keesing or Prognosis Consulting during 2006-07 to date? Hon SUE ELLERY replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) No. (2) For 2005-06 Ross Keesing received nil payment. Prognosis Consulting received the following: advice on infrastructure-related health reform to the Health Reform Implementation Task Force and the Department of Health, $368 389; advice on specific health capital works projects to area chief executives $56 600; project director, Geraldton health campus redevelopment, to WA Country Health Service, $40 650. (3) Ross Keesing - not applicable. Prognosis Consulting - yes. (4) Publicly advertised tender with competitive selection process. (5) Not applicable. (6) Ross Keesing - nil. Prognosis Consulting - $363 452.28 during what this written response indicates as 2006-06, but it must be 2005-06. Hon Anthony Fels : The question referred to “2006-07 to date”. Hon SUE ELLERY : I will check the date, so that I am not giving an incorrect answer.
Hon SUE ELLERY replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) No. (2) For 2005-06 Ross Keesing received nil payment. Prognosis Consulting received the following: advice on infrastructure-related health reform to the Health Reform Implementation Task Force and the Department of Health, $368 389; advice on specific health capital works projects to area chief executives $56 600; project director, Geraldton health campus redevelopment, to WA Country Health Service, $40 650. (3) Ross Keesing - not applicable. Prognosis Consulting - yes. (4) Publicly advertised tender with competitive selection process. (5) Not applicable. (6) Ross Keesing - nil. Prognosis Consulting - $363 452.28 during what this written response indicates as 2006-06, but it must be 2005-06. Hon Anthony Fels : The question referred to “2006-07 to date”. Hon SUE ELLERY : I will check the date, so that I am not giving an incorrect answer.
I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) No. (2) For 2005-06 Ross Keesing received nil payment. Prognosis Consulting received the following: advice on infrastructure-related health reform to the Health Reform Implementation Task Force and the Department of Health, $368 389; advice on specific health capital works projects to area chief executives $56 600; project director, Geraldton health campus redevelopment, to WA Country Health Service, $40 650. (3) Ross Keesing - not applicable. Prognosis Consulting - yes. (4) Publicly advertised tender with competitive selection process. (5) Not applicable. (6) Ross Keesing - nil. Prognosis Consulting - $363 452.28 during what this written response indicates as 2006-06, but it must be 2005-06. Hon Anthony Fels : The question referred to “2006-07 to date”. Hon SUE ELLERY : I will check the date, so that I am not giving an incorrect answer.
(1) No. (2) For 2005-06 Ross Keesing received nil payment. Prognosis Consulting received the following: advice on infrastructure-related health reform to the Health Reform Implementation Task Force and the Department of Health, $368 389; advice on specific health capital works projects to area chief executives $56 600; project director, Geraldton health campus redevelopment, to WA Country Health Service, $40 650. (3) Ross Keesing - not applicable. Prognosis Consulting - yes. (4) Publicly advertised tender with competitive selection process. (5) Not applicable. (6) Ross Keesing - nil. Prognosis Consulting - $363 452.28 during what this written response indicates as 2006-06, but it must be 2005-06. Hon Anthony Fels : The question referred to “2006-07 to date”. Hon SUE ELLERY : I will check the date, so that I am not giving an incorrect answer.
(2) For 2005-06 Ross Keesing received nil payment. Prognosis Consulting received the following: advice on infrastructure-related health reform to the Health Reform Implementation Task Force and the Department of Health, $368 389; advice on specific health capital works projects to area chief executives $56 600; project director, Geraldton health campus redevelopment, to WA Country Health Service, $40 650. (3) Ross Keesing - not applicable. Prognosis Consulting - yes. (4) Publicly advertised tender with competitive selection process. (5) Not applicable. (6) Ross Keesing - nil. Prognosis Consulting - $363 452.28 during what this written response indicates as 2006-06, but it must be 2005-06. Hon Anthony Fels : The question referred to “2006-07 to date”. Hon SUE ELLERY : I will check the date, so that I am not giving an incorrect answer.
(3) Ross Keesing - not applicable. Prognosis Consulting - yes. (4) Publicly advertised tender with competitive selection process. (5) Not applicable. (6) Ross Keesing - nil. Prognosis Consulting - $363 452.28 during what this written response indicates as 2006-06, but it must be 2005-06. Hon Anthony Fels : The question referred to “2006-07 to date”. Hon SUE ELLERY : I will check the date, so that I am not giving an incorrect answer.
(4) Publicly advertised tender with competitive selection process. (5) Not applicable. (6) Ross Keesing - nil. Prognosis Consulting - $363 452.28 during what this written response indicates as 2006-06, but it must be 2005-06. Hon Anthony Fels : The question referred to “2006-07 to date”. Hon SUE ELLERY : I will check the date, so that I am not giving an incorrect answer.
(5) Not applicable. (6) Ross Keesing - nil. Prognosis Consulting - $363 452.28 during what this written response indicates as 2006-06, but it must be 2005-06. Hon Anthony Fels : The question referred to “2006-07 to date”. Hon SUE ELLERY : I will check the date, so that I am not giving an incorrect answer.
(6) Ross Keesing - nil. Prognosis Consulting - $363 452.28 during what this written response indicates as 2006-06, but it must be 2005-06. Hon Anthony Fels : The question referred to “2006-07 to date”. Hon SUE ELLERY : I will check the date, so that I am not giving an incorrect answer.
Hon Anthony Fels : The question referred to “2006-07 to date”. Hon SUE ELLERY : I will check the date, so that I am not giving an incorrect answer.
Hon SUE ELLERY : I will check the date, so that I am not giving an incorrect answer.
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