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FOI Coordinator

OFFICIAL

Good afternoon

Freedom of Information Request – FOI 23-24/187

Thank you for your email to the Department of Finance (Finance) requesting
access to the following documents under the Freedom of Information Act
1982 (FOI Act):

Full copies of the following Approaches to Market (ATM) documents which
the AusTender website references for the contracts awarded to Gruden Pty
Ltd by Department of Finance.

Specifically, I would like to see the documentation provided by the
Department of Finance for these Approaches to Market, including the
requirements, and anything else provided to the prospective suppliers. I
am not interested in any responses from any supplier back to the
Department, only the Department's documents that were produced approaching
the market related to these ATMs.

·         ATM References

·         FIN15BPAM3248

·         FIN16GC22APR

·         FINAT2016/05

·         FIN16GCSW1204

·         FIN15BPAM3255

·         FIN15BPAM3109

·         FINBPAM2661

·         FIN14BPAM2271

·         FIN14BPAM2270

General FOI matters

Your request was received by Finance on 29 June 2024. The statutory period
for processing your request commences from the day after Finance received
your request and a decision is due on 29 July 2024.

The processing period may be extended if we need to consult third parties,
impose a charge or for other reasons. We will advise you if this happens.

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You will be notified of any charges in relation to your request as soon as
possible, before we process any requested documents or impose a final
charge.

Publication

As required by the FOI Act, any documents provided to you under the FOI
Act will be published on our [1]disclosure log, unless an exemption
applies or the documents are characterised as containing personal
information. Documents will be published the next working day after they
are released to you.

Policy to exclude junior officer contact details, signatures and mobile
phone numbers

Finance has adopted a policy to generally exclude from any documents
released under FOI, the names and contact details of junior staff (non-SES
officers) and staff employed under the Members of Parliament (Staff) Act
1984 (adviser level and below). Finance has also adopted a policy to
exclude signatures and mobile phone numbers from any documents released
under FOI (unless publicly available). Finance’s preference is to reach
agreement with FOI applicants to exclude these details from the scope of
the request. Where there is no objection, the names and contact details of
junior officers, as well as any signatures and mobile phone numbers
appearing in identified documents, will be redacted under section 22 of
the FOI Act on the basis that these details are irrelevant to the request.

Please contact the FOI Team on the below contact details if you wish to
discuss your request.

Kind regards

FOI Officer | Legal and Assurance Branch

Business Enabling Services

Department of Finance

A: One Canberra Avenue, Forrest ACT 2603

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