Andrew Robb (Goldstein, Liberal Party, Minister for Trade and Investment) Share this | Hansard source

The answer to the honourable member's question is as follows:

(a) Austender notice CN2564751 reported on the Memorandum of Understanding between Austrade and the Australian Public Service Commission (APSC) in relation to funding for the Strategic Centre for Leadership, Learning and Development and a review of the Workplace Relations Framework.

The Memorandum of Understanding was dated 18 August 2011 and provides funding for the APSC to undertake a body of fee-for-service activities on behalf of the Australian Public Service (APS) during the period 1 July 2011 to 30 June 2016.

Under the funding model outlined in the Memorandum of Understanding, each APS agency employing more than 200 staff contributes funding to the APSC for this set of activities.

The arrangement was supported by the Secretaries Board and aims to realise benefits for the APS by taking a more strategic, service-wide collaborative approach to enable agencies to secure economies of scale or efficiencies in relation to the services activities detailed in the Memorandum of Understanding.(

(b) Under the Memorandum of Understanding, services to be provided by the APSC include:

(c) The amount in Contract CN2564751 is the estimated amount, not what has actually been paid to date.

The $93,200 contract value reported for the five year period was calculated based on the contributions for an agency with 500-999 employees.

Austrade has paid $71,400 to date, excluding GST.

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