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MINISTER FOR HEALTH

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY QUESTION

QUESTION 411

Hospitals Redevelopment Project - Acton Peninsula Study

Mrs Carnell - asked the Minister for Health:

In relation to Richard Glenn & Associates Acton Redevelopment Project report -

(1) Was this report approved by the Consultancy Review Committee.

(2) What steps were followed in putting this consultancy opportunity out to tender.

Mr Berry - the answer to Mrs Carnells - question is as follows:

(1) No, the report was not referred to the Consultancy Review Committee

for approval. The study was an extension of the Project Directorship

brief of Richard Glenn and Associates for the Hospitals Redevelopment

Project as it dealt with the future development of Royal Canberra

Hospital.

(2) The Development options Study of Acton Peninsula was managed as a

discrete exercise within the Hospitals Redevelopment Project While the

Board of Health has ultimate responsibility for all services planning and

policy aspects of the Hospitals Redevelopment Project, ACT Public

Works is responsible for delivering the Hospitals Redevelopment Project

(that is, the physical construction). As such, formal management of the

contractual arrangements were via Public Works and consistent with

current practice for project management. The Project Director, Richard

Glenn and Associates are paid by ACT Public Works on the Board of

Healths authority.

Funds for the Acton Peninsula Study were drawn from the 1990-91 forward design program as an essential preliminary to the hospice project.

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