Purchaser–provider arrangements
The department has a cross-agency arrangement, the Service Level Agreement (SLA), under which it provides common administrative services to Australian government agencies overseas. A new SLA agreement was signed on 1 September 2004. It is due to expire on 30 June 2007.
In 2004–05, the department provided services under the SLA to:
- Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID)
- Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research
- Australian Customs Service
- Australian Federal Police
- Australian Federal Police Protective Service
- Australian Government Information Management Office
- Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
- Australian Security Intelligence Organisation
- Australian Taxation Office
- Australian Trade Commission (Austrade)
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
- Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
- Department of Defence
- Department of Education, Science and Training
- Department of Employment and Workplace Relations
- Department of Family and Community Services
- Department of Health and Ageing (Therapeutic Goods Administration)
- Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs
- Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources
- Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
- Department of the Treasury
- Department of Transport and Regional Services
- Department of Veterans' Affairs (including Office of Australian War Graves)
- Invest Australia
- National Library of Australia
- Office of National Assessments
The Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs, the Department of Defence, AusAID, the Australian Federal Police and the Department of Education, Science and Training are the main purchasers of services under the SLA.
The department also had purchaser/provider arrangements with Australian government agencies that required information and communications technology (ICT) services for staff at Australia's overseas missions and at a number of agency sites within Australia. The Department provided ICT services to the following agencies:
- Air Services Australia
- Attorney-General's Department
- Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID)
- Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research
- Australian Customs Service (including National Surveillance Centre)
- Australian Federal Police
- Australian Maritime Safety Authority
- Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
- Australian Public Service Commission
- Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency
- Australian Taxation Office
- Australian Trade Commission (Austrade)
- Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre
- Bureau of Meteorology
- Civil Aviation Safety Authority
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
- Defence Intelligence Organisation
- Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (including the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service)
- Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts
- Department of Defence
- Department of Education, Science and Training
- Department of Employment and Workplace Relations
- Department of Family and Community Services
- Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs
- Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources
- Department of the Environment and Heritage (including Australian Antarctic Division)
- Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
- Department of the Treasury
- Department of Transport and Regional Services
- National Library of Australia
- Office of National Assessments
- Parliamentary Relations Office
See quality and quantity information under output 1.3 for further detail on the SLA; and quality and quantity information under output 1.2 for further detail on provision of communications and related services to client agencies.
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