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Aged Care Facilities: Inspections
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Senator Robert Ray
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Trade and the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs, upon notice, on 7 March 2000:
(1) What contracts has the department, or any agency of the department, provided to the firm, Arthur Andersen in the 1998-99 financial year.
(2) In each instance: (a) what was the purpose of the work undertaken by Arthur Andersen: (b) what has been the cost of the contract to the department: and (c) what selection process was used to select Arthur Andersen (open tender, short-list, or some other process).
Senator Hill (Minister for the Environment and Heritage)
—The Minister for Trade and the Minister for Foreign Affairs have provided the following answer to the honourable senator's question:
As indicated above the honourable senator has asked identical questions of both Ministers. The following answers are provided on behalf of both Ministers.
DFAT
(1) The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade engaged the firm Arthur Andersen (trading with DFAT as Andersen Contracting) during the 1998-99 financial year.
(2) For the Information Management Branch:
(a) the firm was engaged under three contracts to provide specialist information technology personnel for development work across several major projects;
(b) the total cost to the department was $385,000; and
(c) several firms were approached to submit details of the specialist personnel that they could provide. These were then assessed to select personnel with the particular expertise required for the projects. The firm Arthur Andersen was engaged to provide some of the required project personnel. ยท
AUSTRADE
There is no record of Austrade entering into any contracts with the firm Arthur Andersen in The 1998-1999 financial year.
EFIC
There is no record of any contracts between EFIC and Arthur Andersen for the financial year 1998-1999.
AusAID
Name of Contractor | Contract Number Contract Description | Purpose | Selection Process | Cost of Contract |
Arthur Andersen | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |