Page 1707 - Week 05 - Thursday, 11 May 2017
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subsequent upgrading and maintaining ACT Health assets project funding in the 2016-17 budget funded the works for the main electrical switchboard.
In November 2015 Brooks Marchant provided ACT Health with an inspection report on building 2 and building 12 main electrical switchboards. Between January and May 2016 the engagement of a design consultant for the main electrical switchboard replacement project was undertaken. In March 2016 ACT Health commenced detailed regular thermal monitoring of main electrical switchboards every three weeks.
Between May and July 2016 the specifications for the main electrical switchboard replacement project tender were developed. Concurrently between January and July 2016 the expressions of interest process for the head contractor took place. Between April and September 2016 the head contractor select tender process was undertaken, and tender submissions closed on 6 September 2016.
The tender evaluation process took place from September to December 2017, with the preferred head contractor identified in late December 2016. The tender evaluation report identified a number of items to be addressed during the contract negotiation period. Contract negotiations and clarifications took place between January and March 2017. The contract was awarded on 7 April 2017.
In response to part (2) of Mrs Dunne’s amendment I can advise the Assembly that the AECOM report in question was used to inform a budget business case and is therefore cabinet-in-confidence and I will not be providing it to the chamber.
MRS DUNNE (Ginninderra) (3.37): I note some comments made by the minister which by no means constitute a full chronology, considering that it began in November 2015 with, by the minister’s own admission, a realisation that work had to be done. So there must have been some previous work to inform that. And we do know that AECOM started doing this work before that time. I do acknowledge that there is something there, but it is not a complete chronology. For the information of and as a courtesy to members could I ask that under standing order 213 the minister table the chronology that she read from.
Ms Fitzharris: I can provide a copy.
MRS DUNNE: If the minister would prefer to provide a copy of it, because it may have other speaking notes on it, the chronology itself would be of value to members. I do note that the minister—and her office informed me that she would—is opposing point (2) on the grounds that this was a cabinet-in-confidence document. It only remains a cabinet-in-confidence document if there is ongoing work that needs to come from this. If the work is completed or has been completely identified and funded it would not meet the requirements of being cabinet-in-confidence.
I foreshadow that after the conclusion of this motion I will seek leave to have the AECOM report presented to the Assembly, in accordance with standing order 213A. There are mechanisms there for an independent person to decide whether or not this is a cabinet-in-confidence document. This will be a challenge to the minister, the
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