Appendix 8:
Purchaser–provider arrangements
Financial, office, human resources, property and fleet management services
The department provides financial, office, human resources, property and fleet management services, on a cost-recovery basis, to other government departments and agencies with overseas representation, and to the New Zealand Government under a Service Level Agreement (SLA). This ensures consistency and efficient use of resources and avoids duplication of effort (in accordance with the Prime Minister’s Directive: Guidelines for the Management of the Australian Government Presence Overseas).
The SLA sets out the obligations of the department and other agencies for management services and determines service delivery standards in the areas of financial, office, human resources, property and fleet management for Australia-based employees and locally engaged staff at posts managed by the department. The SLA was due to expire on 30 June 2016; however, by agreement with attached agencies, the department extended the SLA to 30 June 2017.
The main purchasers of services under the SLA are the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, Department of Defence, Australian Trade and Investment Commission and Australian Federal Police.
In 2016–17 the department provided services under the SLA to:
- Attorney-General’s Department
- Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research
- Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission
- Australian Federal Police (including Australian Federal Police Protective Service)
- Australian Maritime Safety Authority
- Australian National University
- Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
- Australian Taxation Office
- Australian Trade and Investment Commission (Austrade)
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
- Department of Agriculture and Water Resources
- Department of Defence
- Department of Education and Training
- Department of Employment
- Department of the Environment and Energy
- Department of Health
- Department of Immigration and Border Protection
- Department of Industry, Innovation and Science
- Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development
- Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
- Department of Veterans’ Affairs
- Intellectual Property Australia
- National Library of Australia
- New Zealand Government
- Office of National Assessments
- Reserve Bank of Australia
- The Treasury
Information and communications technology (ICT) services
The department also has purchaser-provider arrangements to provide ICT services to government agencies with staff at our overseas missions and at a number of agency locations within Australia.
In 2016–17 the department provided ICT services to the following agencies in Australia and overseas:
- Attorney-General’s Department
- Australian Antarctic Division
- Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research
- Australian Criminal
Intelligence Commission - Australian Electoral Commission
- Australian Federal Police
- Australian Fisheries Management Authority
- Australian Human Rights Commission
- Australian Maritime Safety Authority
- Australian National University
- Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
- Australian Public Service Commission
- Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency
- Australian Research Council
- Australian Taxation Office
- Australian Trade and Investment Commission (Austrade)
- Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre
- Bureau of Meteorology
- Civil Aviation Safety Authority
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
- Department of Agriculture and Water Resources
- Department of Communications and the Arts
- Department of Defence
- Department of Education and Training
- Department of Employment
- Department of the Environment and Energy
- Department of Finance
- Department of Health
- Department of Immigration and Border Protection
- Department of Industry, Innovation and Science
- Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development
- Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
- Department of Social Services
- Department of the House of Representatives (International and Parliamentary Relations Office)
- Department of Veterans’ Affairs
- Export Finance and Insurance Corporation
- Food Standards Australia–New Zealand
- Geoscience Australia
- Intellectual Property Australia
- National Library of Australia
- New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Office of National Assessments
- Reserve Bank of Australia
- The Treasury