Effective 11 June 2015

Hire and Loan

The ASDEFCON (Hire of Defence Asset) ("Hire") and ASDEFCON (Loan of Defence Asset) ("Loan") templates facilitates the temporary passing of a Defence Asset, including inventory, to an organisation external to Defence or other entity, for a specified use and defined period of time.

The ASDEFCON (Hire) template is for use when the Commonwealth agrees to provide equipment to the hirer in return for a payment to the Commonwealth for the use of that equipment.

The ASDEFCON (Loan) template is for use when the Commonwealth agrees to provide equipment to the borrower without the payment of money, but with the payment of a security deposit.

Further guidance on when to use the ASDEFCON (Hire) and ASDEFCON (Loan) templates has been included in the Contract Template Selection and Tailoring Guide.

The most recent versions of the ASDEFCON (Hire) and ASDEFCON (Loan) templates are version 1.1 (June 2015). The changes include:

  • Incorporation of all changes introduced in Departmental Procurement Policy Instructions since the release of version 1.0 of the templates.
  • Incorporation of new work health and safety content for asbestos containing material and problematic sources.

Tables of changes from version 1.0 to version 1.1 of the ASDEFCON (Hire) and ASDEFCON (Loan) templates are available.

Download Files

The following files represent the complete ASDEFCON (Hire) and ASDEFCON (Loan) version 1.1 templates.

These versions are current as of 11 June 2015.

Adobe Acrobat format

ASDEFCON (Hire of Defence Asset) version 1.1 (PDF)
ASDEFCON (Loan of Defence Asset) version 1.1 (PDF)

Microsoft Word format

ASDEFCON (Hire of Defence Asset) version 1.1 (DOC)
ASDEFCON (Loan of Defence Asset) version 1.1 (DOC)

The Department of Defence accepts no responsibility or liability for the use of these documents. For specific procurements, the Department reserves the right to make changes to the documents (or select particular clause 'options') and is not bound to use the documents for any particular procurement.