Western Power displayed good procurement practices across all our lines of enquiry. The other 7 agencies need to improve various aspects of their policies or practices. In particular, controls over contract extensions need to be improved at most agencies.
Table 2 is a summary of our findings using a 3 point scale of ‘poor’, ‘fair’ or ‘good’.
What we found:
- Most agencies need to improve their procurement policies and procedures and contract recordkeeping – read more
- Agencies generally had satisfactory tendering practices and were managing conflicts of interest – read more
- Most agencies did not perform adequate contractor performance reviews before extending or renewing contracts – read more
- Most agencies were effectively controlling the use of contract variations – read more