Adecco Contract CN3923195
Dear Department of Defence,
Please provide a copy of Defence Force Recruiting - Recruiting Services Contract between Department of Defence and Adecco Australia Pty Ltd (ABN 91 006 253 336) contract ID CN3923195 Agency Reference ID:4600042630 dated around October or November 2022, including all and any annexures, appendices, attachments and the like.
See: https://www.tenders.gov.au/Cn/Show/7ee5b...
Costing/profit information can be redacted however all other information and materials should be provided.
Yours faithfully,
James Smith
OFFICIAL
Dear James,
Acknowledgement
I refer to your correspondence of 19 June 2024 seeking access to documents
held by the Department of Defence (Defence), under the Freedom of
Information Act 1982 (FOI Act).
The scope of your request is:
Please provide a copy of Defence Force Recruiting - Recruiting Services
Contract between Department of Defence and Adecco Australia Pty Ltd (ABN
91 006 253 336) contract ID CN3923195 Agency Reference ID:4600042630 dated
around October or November 2022, including all and any annexures,
appendices, attachments and the like.
See:
https://www.tenders.gov.au/Cn/Show/7ee5b...
Costing/profit information can be redacted however all other information
and materials should be provided.
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Ryan
Freedom of Information
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OFFICIAL
Dear James,
Please find attached a letter in relation to Defence FOI 1001/23/24.
Kind regards,
Ryan
Freedom of Information
Media and Information Disclosure Branch
Ministerial & Executive Coordination and Communication Division
Department of Defence
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Dear FOI Case Management,
I am only seeking one document, a contract.
A contract is drafted in such a way that not every page requires review, only those sections (not pages) that contain commercial and confidential information.
It is disingenuous to suggest otherwise.
The contract manager would very quickly be able to direct the FOI staff to the relevant sections for review.
It is a gross exaggeration to suggest that reviewing the contract would be a four week exercise. Much of the contract, like all contracts, will be boilerplate clauses, which can be discounted from the estimated review time.
The time allocated to reviewing “each page” has been extrapolated linearly to artificially inflate the task, to give it the appearance of being unreasonable.
The gross inflation of the task of reviewing a current contract (which Defence will have current contract managers administering who will be intimately familiar with the document) just smacks of Defence contriving reasons to keep the document from being produced.
The scope of the FOI request does not need to be revised. Instead, Defence needs to consult its internal experts and arrive at a realistic estimation of the task, which likely only involves redacting the commercial schedules to the contract.
Yours sincerely,
James Smith
OFFICIAL
Dear James,
Please find attached the Decision relating to Defence FOI 1001/23/24.
Under section 54 of the FOI Act, you are entitled to request a review of
this decision. Your review rights are attached.
Please contact this office should you require any further information.
Kind regards
Freedom of Information Team
Media and Information Disclosure Branch
Ministerial & Executive Coordination and Communication Division
Department of Defence
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Dear FOI Case Management,
Referred to OAIC ref WEB-MR-24-00146
Yours sincerely,
James Smith