Audit offers some fuel for thought

THE Defence Organisation is looking to introduce a single electronic fuel management system.

This follows a recent Australian National Audit Office audit into the Joint Fuels and Lubricants Agency (JFLA) that highlighted the inefficiencies of current arrangements owing to the legacy of the individual services’ different manual and automated systems.

The JFLA was created in 1998 to provide a centralised agency for Defence Fuels and Lubricants policy as well as the management of fuel and lubricant quality, procurement, contracts and inventory control.

A single electronic fuel management system will allow all services to use the same procedures and the same information, with the same standards.

A tender evaluation was completed in late January, with the aim of providing a new information system allowing the control and accounting of all liquid fuels, lubricants and petroleum products within Defence.

The project is scheduled to have the new system’s plans approved by June and to have the new system fully implemented in June 2005.

For further information, or if you wish to provide some input into the project, contact Captain Jodie Forlonge on jodie.forlonge@defence.gov.au or Phil Aitken on phillip.aitken@defence.gov.au.

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