Page 3000 - Week 09 - Thursday, 18 August 2005
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(23) What are these new funds going toward;
(24) What steps has the Minister taken to eradicate the sort of communication problems witnessed in the ESA COMCEN recently with the Simpson Hill's fire incident;
(25) What has the Minister done to address the concerns of the Rural Fire Service (RFS) to ensure that it has, in the ESA Headquarters, a stand alone Operations Centre and a stand alone RFS radio room to guarantee proper control;
(26) Are these closely linked with the ESA COMCEN to ensure better and speedier emergency communications and decision making;
(27) Does Curtin currently accommodate all the command and control systems of all emergency services agencies; if so, how are they properly inter-phased with the ESA Headquarters;
(28) What is the total cost of the Fire-Link project;
(29) Why has this project had built into it a “radio relay” (mesh technology) capability to compliment its data link;
(30) Is this an admission that the voice/radio network initially commissioned fails to cover the 95% * 95% coverage and reliability requirement and that data link equipment is now required to bridge gaps in the existing [TRN] voice net system; if not, then why commission the project;
(31) Was the Fire-Link project referred to and approved by the ACT Government Procurement Board as per clause 6(1)(b) of the Government Procurement (Approved Procurement Units) Guideline 2002 (No. 1);
(32) On what date (a) was the Fire-Link proposal first referred to the ACT Government Procurement Board and (b) did you decide that the project would be the subject of a single-select tender process and that normal Government procurement guidelines would not be adhered to;
(33) Did Government solicitors send a letter to the ESA asking them to explain why many tenders have been single-select; if so, what was your response;
(34) Why did you pursue this option for a data link and why did you not consider a system which could have been implemented with off-the-shelf hardware combined with the existing computer aided dispatch system for the total cost of around $500 000, significantly less than the cost of the Fire-Link system;
(35) Why was a tender not sought from the contractors of the CAD system and if it was not possible, why not;
(36) Why was there a need for this extensive research, stated in estimates hearings, when a public tender would have served the same function for Firelink;
(37) Has the ESA previously conducted any activities with Fire-Link provider ATI;
(38) How did ATI specifically come to the notice of the ESA if broad commercial tendering processes were not undertaken;
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