Senate Order on Departmental and Agency Contracts Listing

Pursuant to the Senate Order on departmental and agency contracts the following table sets out contracts entered into by Geoscience Australia which provide for a consideration to the value of $100 000 or more and which:

a. have not been fully performed as at 31 December 2012, or

b. which have been entered into during the 12 months prior to 31 December 2012.

Most of the contracts listed contain confidentiality provisions of a general nature that are designed to protect the confidential information of the parties that may be obtained or generated in carrying out the contract.

The reasons for including such clauses include:

  • ordinary commercial prudence that requires protection of trade secrets, proprietary information and the like; and/or
  • protection of other Commonwealth material and personal information.

Geoscience Australia has estimated the cost of complying with the Senate Order at $1,553.40, determined by calculating the time taken to collect, analyse and compile the information and applying salary costs and on-costs.

Geoscience Australia Contracts over $100,000 1 January – 31 December 2012
Contractor Subject Matter Value Start Date Anticipated End Date Whether
Contract
contains
provisions
requiring the
parties to
maintain
confidentiality
of any of its
provisions (Y/N)
Whether
Contract
contains other
requirements of
confidentiality (Y/N)
Reason(s)
AAM Pty Ltd Acquisition of LiDAR, Imagery and Derived
Products for PNG
$659,984 17-Apr-12 27-Jul-12 N N
AAM Pty Ltd Acquisition of LiDAR, Imagery and Derived Products for Vanuatu $899,590 23-Aug-12 30-Jun-13 N N
AAM Pty Ltd Acquisition of LiDAR Imagery and Derived Products for Samoa $236,500 14-Nov-12 22-Feb-13 N N
ActewAGL Gas supply $429,000 1-Jan-12 31-Dec-14 N N
Acumen Contracting and Recruitment Short Term Personnel - Solution Architect $172,700 3-Dec-12 30-Jun-13 N N
Addeco Australia Pty Ltd Short Term Personnel - GIS Support Officer $274,923 13-Feb-12 28-Jun-13 N N
Addeco Australia Pty Ltd Short Term Personnel - Java Web Developer $221,540 27-Feb-12 28-Feb-13 N N
Addeco Australia Pty Ltd Short Term Personnel - Senior VMWare Implementation & Design Engineer $124,850 2-Oct-12 1-Apr-13 N N
Adecco Australia Pty Ltd Short Term Personnel - Solution Architect $174,944 26-Nov-12 30-Jun-13 N N
Atlas Geophysics Pty Ltd Acquisition and Supply of Gravity Data to East Amadeus Gravity Survey $538,877 8-May-12 30-Jun-13 N N
Atlas Geophysics Pty Ltd Acquisition and Supply of Gravity Data to West Murchison Gravity Survey $680,508 31-Jul-12 2-Dec-12 N N
Attorney Generals Department - Office of International Law Provision of Technical advice on Pacific Maritime Boundary Issues $286,690 20-May-11 30-Jun-13 N N
Aurec Pty Ltd Short Term Personnel - Web Support $166,612 5-May-10 30-Jun-13 N N
Aurec Pty Ltd Short Term Personnel - Software Tester $337,422 5-Sep-11 30-Jun-13 N N
Aurec Pty Ltd Short Term Personnel - Business Analyst $221,760 30-Jul-12 30-Jun-13 N N
Aurec Pty Ltd Short Term Personnel - Storage Architect / Senior Storage Implementation Engineer $124,868 15-Oct-12 14-Apr-13 N N
Aurion Corporation Pty Ltd Human Resource Management Information System (HRMIS) $520,368 1-Sep-11 31-Aug-15 N N
Australian Satellite Communication Services Pty Ltd Remote VSAT Telecommunication Services $387,310 13-Dec-10 13-Dec-15 N N
Bruker Biosciences Pty Ltd Bruker S8 Tiger 4kW X-Ray Florescence Spectrometer $300,017 6-Sep-12 16-Nov-12 N N
Bruker Biosciences Pty Ltd Supply, Installation and Training in the use of a Bruker D4 Endeavour X-Ray Diffractometer $134,717 3-Oct-12 31-Jan-13 N N
Centre for Appropriate Technology Incorporated Licence in Relation to Part Lot 9191, Alice Springs $619,661 1-Sep-10 1-Oct-20 N N
City Software Pty Ltd (CSW) VMware Maintenance $137,279 1-Jun-12 1-Jul-12 N N
Clarius Group Limited Short Term Personnel - Software Engineer $399,258 27-Jun-11 30-Jun-13 N N
Clarius Group Limited Short Term Personnel - Software Developer $383,562 29-Sep-11 30-Jun-13 N N
Clarius Group Limited Short Term Personnel - ICT Tester and Business Analyst $266,145 17-Oct-11 28-Jun-13 N N
Clarius Group Limited Short Term Personnel - Solution Architect $267,967 16-Jan-12 31-Dec-12 N N
Clarius Group Limited Short Term Personnel - Software Developer $122,990 23-Mar-12 31-Mar-13 N N
Clarius Group Limited Short Term Personnel - Technical Business Analyst $220,000 1-Jul-12 30-Jun-13 N N
Clicks IT Recruitment Pty Ltd Short Term Personnel - Python Developer $387,930 7-Mar-11 28-Jun-13 N N
Clicks IT Recruitment Pty Ltd Short Term Personnel - Lead Software Tester $308,895 14-Nov-11 30-Jun-13 N N
Clicks IT Recruitment Pty Ltd Short Term Personnel - Software Developer $102,300 9-Jan-12 30-Jun-12 N N
Clicks IT Recruitment Pty Ltd Short Term Personnel - Project Manager - Migration to Windows 7 $369,465 31-Jan-12 31-Jan-13 N N
CO2CRC Management Pty Ltd Greenhouse Gas Control Release $539,000 19-Apr-10 30-Jun-13 N N
Colliers International (ACT) Pty Ltd Insurance for GA Building Symonston for financial year 2012/13 $198,000 6-Jul-12 30-Jun-13 N N
Colliers International (ACT) Pty Ltd Rates for GA Building Symonston for financial year 2012/13 $192,500 6-Jul-12 30-Jun-13 N N
Colliers International (ACT) Pty Ltd Management fee for GA building Symonston for financial year 2012/13 $148,500 6-Jul-12 30-Jun-13 N N
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) R2P2 Rapid Resource Assessment $121,000 27-Feb-12 9-Mar-12 N N
Complete Office Supplies Pty Ltd Provision of Stationery Office Services $249,391 20-Dec-12 7-Mar-15 N N
Data#3 Limited Lenovo D30 Workstations $133,967 4-Jun-12 23-Jun-12 N N
Desmond FitzGerald & Associates Pty Ltd trading as Intrepid Geophysics Software Support, Maintenance and Development of Intrepid Geophysical Data Processing Software $224,400 1-Jul-12 30-Jun-15 N N
DigitalGlobe, Inc WorldView 2 Imagery Over Great Barrier Reef $452,508 20-Jun-12 30-Jun-12 N N
DigitalGlobe, Inc WorldView 2 Imagery Over Great Barrier Reef $248,004 1-Nov-12 4-Dec-12 N N
DMC International Imaging Ltd Medium Resolution Satellite imagery of Australia $632,976 7-May-12 31-Dec-12 N N
EBSCO Australia Ebsco journals - 2012 calendar year $196,900 14-Oct-11 31-Dec-12 N N
Elsevier BV ScienceDirect e-journals subscription - 2012 calendar year $142,206 30-Sep-11 31-Dec-12 N N
EOS Space Systems Pty Limited (EOS) Facilities Management - Mt Stromlo Facility $7,464,489 8-Sep-03 30-Nov-14 N Y (i)
EOS Space Systems Pty Limited (EOS) Facilities Management and Operation - MOBLAS-5 Satellite Ranging Facility at Yatharagga (WA) $4,201,780 27-Nov-08 27-Nov-13 N Y (i)
ERM Power Retail Pty Ltd Electricity Supply to GA $3,520,000 1-Jul-11 30-Jun-15 N N
ESRI Australia Pty Ltd Enterprise Licence Agreement $2,277,000 1-Jul-12 30-Jun-15 N N
Ethan Group Pty Ltd HP VMware solutions and HP support $254,984 30-Mar-12 30-Apr-12 N N
Fast Networks Pty Ltd High Data Rate Modem with second demodulator $481,762 23-Jan-12 31-May-12 N N
Finite IT Recruitment Solutions Short Term Personnel - Java Developer $477,923 17-Mar-10 29-Mar-13 N N
Finite IT Recruitment Solutions Short Term Personnel - Business Analyst $470,450 20-Sep-10 31-Mar-13 N N
Frontier Group Australia Short Term Personnel - Project Manager/Business Analyst $627,057 15-Feb-10 30-Jun-13 N N
Frontier Group Australia Short Term Personnel - Lead Strategic Business Analyst $165,000 16-Jul-12 30-Jun-13 N N
Frontier Group Australia Short Term Personnel - Linux Administrator/Solution Design $148,520 26-Nov-12 28-Jun-13 N N
Fugro Seismic Imaging Pty Ltd Seismic Processing for Bonaparte 2D seismic data $270,006 22-May-12 26-Oct-12 N N
Fugro Spatial Solutions Pty Ltd QLD 25k Coastal Drainage $115,361 23-Nov-12 12-Feb-12 N N
Fugro Survey Pty Ltd Vlaming Basin Geophysical Survey $1,708,771 21-Mar-12 30-Jun-12 N N
Geo++ GNSS antenna callibration system $211,223 31-Oct-12 31-Oct-12 N N
Globalpos Pty Ltd GNSS Receivers $549,813 25-May-12 30-Jun-12 N N
GPX Surveys Pty Ltd South West 4 (Mt Barker) Airborne Magnetic and Radiometric Survey - Data Acquisition, Processing and Supply $771,100 1-Mar-11 30-Apr-13 N N
GPX Surveys Pty Ltd South Pilbara Airborne Magnetic and Radiometric Survey - Data Acquisition, Processing and Supply $873,400 1-May-11 31-May-13 N N
GPX Surveys Pty Ltd Carnarvon Basin 2 (Carnarvon Basin South) Airborne Magnetic & Radiometric Survey - Data Acquisition, Processing and Supply $774,400 1-Feb-12 19-May-12 N N
Hays Specialist Recruitment (Australia) Pty Ltd Short Term Personnel - Records Management $152,256 15-Nov-11 30-Jun-13 N N
Hays Specialist Recruitment (Australia) Pty Ltd Short Term Personnel - Windows Server/Windows 7 Design Engineer $353,320 27-Feb-12 30-Jun-13 N N
Hays Specialist Recruitment (Australia) Pty Ltd Short Term Personnel - Microsoft Windows Server Administrator $299,774 1-Jul-12 30-Jun-13 N N
Hays Specialist Recruitment (Australia) Pty Ltd Short Term Personnel - Senior Unix Consultant/Technical Team Lead $198,396 20-Aug-12 17-Feb-13 N N
Hitachi Data Systems Australia Pty Limited Annual Hardware and Software Support $287,234 1-Apr-12 31-Mar-13 N N
Hitachi Data Systems Australia Pty Limited DMZ and NEO Storage Capacity Upgrades $148,830 23-May-12 23-May-12 N N
Hitachi Data Systems Australia Pty Limited HNAS Tier 3 Storage $134,904 23-May-12 30-Jun-12 N N
Hitachi Data Systems Australia Pty Limited High Performance NAS Disk Tier $169,629 8-Jun-12 30-Jun-12 N N
Hitachi Data Systems Australia Pty Limited Tier 1 to 3 Storage Upgrade $999,925 4-Dec-12 4-Mar-13 N N
IBM Australia Limited Provision of Archive and Data Delivery System for Large Data Sets $678,350 9-May-08 31-Dec-14 N N
Kelly Services Short Term Personnel - Business Analyst $830,304 21-Sep-09 30-Jun-13 N N
Kinemetrics Inc. Seismic digitisers and data loggers $239,249 15-Jun-12 30-Jun-12 N N
Media Monitors Australia Pty Ltd Media Monitoring Services $297,000 21-Dec-10 18-Nov-13 N N
Mock, Colleen Maree T/a BiblioAnalysis Australian Geoscience Literature Indexing Services $275,792 10-Feb-10 21-Feb-14 N N
Mosaic Recruitment Pty Ltd Short Term Personnel - Designer/Typesetter $192,357 27-Apr-11 3-May-13 N N
MTAA Superannuation Fund Trust- Colliers International (ACT) Pty Ltd Geoscience Australia Building Lease $426,000,000 1-Jun-00 31-May-20 N N
National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) - Australian Membership of the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) Project $2,200,000 23-Oct-12 31-Dec-15 N N
National University for The National Collaborative Infrastructure Strategy'¦s Research (NCRIS) Capability
Oakton AA Services Pty Ltd Accounting Services $512,578 21-Jul-11 30-Jun-13 N N
Oakton Services Pty Ltd Provision of Internal Audit Services $376,038 1-Jul-10 30-Jun-13 N N
Optus Networks Limited Mobile Carriage, Blackberry, Data Services $424,000 17-Oct-12 16-Oct-15 N N
Optus Networks Pty Ltd Optus Evolve services to support Monitoring Networks $662,937 29-Jul-11 30-Jun-13 N N
Oracle Corporation Australia Pty Ltd Oracle software maintenance $269,027 2-May-12 26-May-13 N N
Paragon Printers Printing and binding of the book - Shaping a Nation: A Geology of Australia $198,990 7-May-12 31-Jul-12 N N
Peoplebank Australia Pty Ltd Short Term Personnel - Web Content Manager $539,640 17-Nov-09 3-May-13 N N
Peoplebank Australia Pty Ltd Short Term Personnel - Robotics Data Systems Support $355,289 1-Jul-10 30-Jun-13 N N
Peoplebank Australia Pty Ltd Short Term Personnel - Linux/Unix $415,034 17-Jan-11 31-Jan-13 N N
Photomapping Services Pty Ltd Scanning and Georeferencing of Maps $259,600 6-Feb-12 31-Dec-12 N N
Photomapping Services Pty Ltd Work Packages - Mt Stuart, Shoalwater Bay and Majura Training Areas $113,583 1-Mar-12 31-Jul-12 N N
Photomapping Services Pty Ltd NAA Film Scanning $418,000 1-Mar-12 30-Jun-12 N N
Photomapping Services Pty Ltd IGDS Work Packages $118,525 4-May-12 17-Aug-12 N N
Photomapping Services Pty Ltd Work Packages - Derwent Barracks and Orchard Hills imagery capture $101,200 24-Jul-12 30-Dec-12 N N
Photomapping Services Pty Ltd NAA Digital Film Scanning $462,000 24-Oct-12 14-Jun-13 N N
Pricewaterhouse Coopers Professional Services surrounding leasing arrangements $110,000 8-Feb-12 30-Jun-13 N N
Red Rock Consulting Pty Ltd FMIS Application Support and Database Administration Services $1,941,500 20-Jan-10 19-Jan-15 N N
Ricoh Australia Pty Ltd MFD Lease and Support $562,225 23-Aug-11 29-Jul-16 N N
Ross Human Directions Limited Short Term Personnel - Business Analyst $163,033 22-Aug-11 28-Jan-13 N N
RPS Pty Ltd Work Packages - Singleton Range Training Area and Bindoon Training Area $109,450 30-Apr-12 1-Nov-12 N N
Saltbush Consulting Pty Ltd Provision of Information Security Services $1,500,000 12-Aug-10 11-Aug-13 N N
Schiavello ACT Pty Ltd Office furniture for co-location project $180,417 23-Mar-12 30-Jun-12 N N
Schlumberger Oilfield Australia Pty ltd Geoframe Maintenance renewal $169,675 15-Mar-12 15-Apr-12 N N
Sinclair Knight Merz Pty Limited QLD 100k Drainage Project West - Production and Supply of Topographic Maps and Data $107,635 2-May-12 4-Aug-12 N N
Sinclair Knight Merz Pty Limited QLD 100k Drainage Project East - Production and Supply of Topographic Maps and Data $157,483 2-May-12 19-Aug-12 N N
Skilled Engineering Pty Ltd Provision of Facilities Management Services to GA $20,575,128 11-Mar-05 30-Jun-13 N N
Southern Cross Computing Pty Ltd Short Term Personnel - Business Analyst $159,588 6-Aug-12 28-Jun-13 N N
Talent International (Holdings) Pty Ltd Short Term Personnel - Software Engineer $132,904 15-Feb-12 31-Mar-13 N N
Talent International (Holdings) Pty Ltd Short Term Personnel - Python Developer $283,888 20-Feb-12 30-Jun-13 N N
Talent International (Holdings) Pty Ltd Short Term Personnel - Windows and Migration Engineer $182,160 3-Sep-12 30-Jun-13 N N
Telstra OTC Australia Provision of Mobile Voice and Data Services (Carriage) and Associated Services $267,300 7-Jun-12 31-Jul-13 N N
Terranean Mapping Technologies Pty Ltd Scanning and Georeferencing of Maps $279,125 1-Feb-12 31-Dec-12 N N
Terranean Mapping Technologies Pty Ltd North Queensland LiDAR Point Classification Processing $122,829 27-Aug-12 26-Nov-12 N N
Terrex Seismic Albany - VFraser Orogen Deep Crustal Seismic Survey $4,245,112 18-Apr-12 1-Aug-12 N N
The Administrative Centre for China's Agenda - ACCA21 Cooperation in the field of Geological Storage of Carbon Dioxide $1,389,000 15-Dec-12 30-Jun-14 N N
The Department of Mineral Policy and Geohazards Management represented by Rabaul Volcanological Observatory, PNG Support for Geoscience Australia's Tsunami Warning System Seismic Monitoring Infrastructure $107,916 9-Jun-09 30-Jun-23 N N
The Global Earthquake Model Foundation (GEM) GEM foundation Collaborative Agreement $435,000 21-May-10 31-Dec-13 N N
The Institute of Engineers Australia The revision of the Australian Rainfall and Runoff (ARR) $5,665,000 27-Sep-12 27-Aug-15 N N
The Secretariat of the South Pacific Community (SPC) Support for Workshops related to Delineation of Maritime Jurisdictions for Pacific Islands Countries $640,000 1-Jan-11 30-Jun-13 N N
Thermo Fisher Scientific Australia Pty Ltd Meteorological Equipment $278,310 26-Jun-12 30-Jun-12 N N
Thermo Fisher Scientific Australia Pty Ltd GNSS Meteorological Equipment $107,014 6-Nov-12 30-Nov-12 N N
Thomson Aviation Pty Ltd Widgiemooltha South Airborne Magnetic and Radiometric Survey $792,000 1-Nov-12 16-May-13 N N
TransACT Communications Pty Ltd TransACT Telecommunications - service and usage charges $1,164,000 27-Oct-11 21-Aug-12 N Y (ii)
Ultimate Positioning Group Pty Ltd GNSS receivers and antennae equipment $1,149,913 25-May-12 30-Jun-12 N N
United States Geological Survey of the Department of the Interior (USGS) MoU for Cooperation in the use of US Land Remote Sensing Satellite Data $627,544 1-Oct-12 30-Sep-16 N N
University of Tasmania Very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) $220,000 6-Jun-11 30-Jun-13 N N
UTS Geophysics Pty Ltd Marree Airborne Magnetic and Radiometric Survey $856,900 15-Aug-12 30-Mar-13 N N
Veritas DGC Australia Pty Ltd Bonaparte Voyage $6,756,332 1-Mar-12 30-Jun-12 N N
Verizon Australia Provision of Internet Gateway $2,893,576 23-Dec-08 7-Dec-13 N N
CONFIDENTIALITY REASON CODES
(i) Disclosure would reveal trade secrets which are judged to have the potential to cause detriment to the contractor.
(ii) Disclosure would reveal the contractor's internal costing information or information about its profit margin.
(iii) Disclosure would be contrary to the public interest
(iv) Disclosure would be contrary to statutory secrecy provisions.
(v) Disclosure would be contrary to the Privacy Act 1988.
(vi) Standard provisions of grant agreement and broad project details (amount, recipient, project description) are not confidential under the contract. The Commonwealth is required to take reasonable measures to protect confidentiality of information that is provided by the grantee and is marked confidential. These provisions protect commercially sensitive information of a party.
(vii) Standard provisions of funding agreement contract are not confidential. Other information will only be confidential under the contract if it is by its nature confidential or designated as such by the Commonwealth. Information that is confidential under the contract can be disclosed if required by law. These provisions protect commercially sensitive information of a party.
(viii) Grant Agreement does not impose confidentiality obligations in respect of the terms of the agreement or project details. Information obtained during audit or review of a project is not to be disclosed unless required by law. This provision protects commercially sensitive information of a party, and;
(ix) Contract contains Commercial-in-Confidence information.
(x) Other - details of contract are confidential (for example contains general confidential clause(s)) but can be released for auditing, complying with the law and to Federal Parliament.

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