ASDEFCON (Standing Offer for Goods and Maintenance Services)

Version 2.1 effective 23 August 2024

ASDEFCON (Standing Offer for Goods and Maintenance Services) (SOGMS) should be used when establishing a standing offer where goods are to be acquired and/or maintenance services are to be provided. Further guidance on when to use ASDEFCON (SOGMS) has been included in the Contract Template Selection and Tailoring Guide.

Contract template selection and tailoring guide (PDF, 1.34 MB)

ASDEFCON (Standing Offer for Goods and Maintenance Services) version 2.1 incorporates the following changes:

  • new provisions to align with 1 July 2024 updates to the Commonwealth Procurement Rules, including the introduction of the Commonwealth Supplier Code of Conduct
  • new ASDEFCON Clausebank optional clauses for procurements subject to the Australian Skills Guarantee Procurement Connected Policy
  • a reduced threshold for mandatory consideration by officials of the economic benefit of a procurement for the Australian economy
  • implementation of the revised Defence Cost Principles
  • various other updates in Defence policies and commercial standards.

In addition, minor typographical and grammatical changes have been made, along with updated web links and references.

A table of changes from version 2.0 to version 2.1 of ASDEFCON (Standing Offer for Goods and Maintenance Services) is available.

Table of changes - version 2.0 to version 2.1 (ZIP, 334.38 KB)

Download files

The following files represent the complete ASDEFCON (SOGMS) version 2.1 template. 

This version is current as of 23 August 2024.

Preliminary pages (PDF, 273.28 KB)

Part 1 - conditions of tender and annexes (PDF, 310.67 KB)

Part 2 - draft conditions of deed (PDF, 643.19 KB)

Alternatively, a zipped copy of ASDEFCON (SOGMS) version 2.1 in Microsoft Word format is also available for downloading. When extracting from Winzip please ensure "all files" and "use folder names" is selected. 

Standing Offer for Goods and Maintenance Services template documents (ZIP, 433.57 KB)

The ASDEFCON Toolbar and Style Set should be used to edit the template in Microsoft Word.

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

Guidance

The ASDEFCON (SOGMS) Version 1.0 handbook is no longer applicable to all sections of the ASDEFCON (SOGMS) Version 2.1 template.

Standing Offer for Goods and Maintenance Services version 1 handbook (PDF, 74.33 KB)