| The ASDEFCON suite of tendering and contracting templates [including ASDEFCON (Strategic Materiel) pictured] is currently under review. |
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The ongoing review of procurement procedures is a prime focus for the Defence Materiel Organisation (DMO) during a new overhaul to further improve the ASDEFCON suite of tendering and contracting templates. Issues such as the complexity and cost of tendering will also be reviewed.
The ASDEFCON suite will be familiar to industry representatives and provides a set of proforma documents for use by procurement officers when drafting solicitation documents and contracts.
A focus in addressing ASDEFCON will be to ensure that the templates are appropriate for the particular procurements for which they are being used, in terms of information being sought from tenderers through the tender process, and the contract terms governing the procurement.
A re-baselined version of the key contracting template ASDEFCON (Strategic Materiel) Version 2.1, incorporating recent Australian Government and Defence legislative and policy changes, was released on 7 December 2007. These changes are being flowed down to other ASDEFCON templates.
The current procurement improvement process is about continual improvement of contracting policy, practices and templates. A working group to review the use of performance based contracting in ASDEFCON templates has been established as well as a working group to update the Government Furnished Facilities licence.
The procurement improvement working group seeks to review, improve and provide best practice Defence wide procurement policy, process and practice. This working group has representatives from the DMO Office of Special Counsel, DMO Legal, Procurement Policy, and DMO Finance Policy.
The review is also incorporating relatively new Departmental Procurement Policy Instructions (DPPIs) to provide updates on a range of procurement policy. A number of out of date DPPIs have also been cancelled.
More information about the outcome of this review will be published in the coming months. |
