Find the help you need right now with our team of Government Lawyers:
MV ready reckoner for commonwealth enquiries
Contracting and procurement: Robert Starke
Construction, Leasing licences and use agreements: Christine Murray
Employment and Workplace Health & Safety: William Ward
Intellectual Property: Robert Starke
Information and Communications Technology: Robert Starke
Privacy and Freedom of Information: Robert Starke
Debt Recovery: Bernice Ellis
Litigation and Dispute Resolution: Bernice Ellis
Administrative Law: Greg Brackenreg
Statutory Interpretation: Robert Starke
Commonwealth Grants and Funding: Robert Starke
Corporate Governance: Robert Starke
Secondments: Robert Starke
Non-ongoing recruitment: Robert Starke
Here are some helpful resources on Government Law:
Department of Finance’s Commonwealth Procurement Rules (CPRs)
Resource Management Guides (RMGs) – Index
RMG-400 Approving commitments of relevant money
RMG -411 Grants, procurements and other arrangements
RMG-415 Commonwealth Grants and Procurement Connected Policies
Commonwealth Contracting Suite (CCS)
Department of Finance’s procurement web-page
Department of Finance’s – Ethics and probity in procurement
Department of Finance Whole-of-Government Procurement Contracts, Arrangements and Initiatives
Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013 (Cth)
Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Rule 2014 (Cth)
Department of Finance’s Commonwealth Grants Rules and Guidelines
Developing guidelines for granting activities
Resource Management Guides (RMGs) – Index
RMG-400 Approving commitments of relevant money
RMG -411 Grants, procurements and other arrangements
RMG-412 Australian Government Grants – briefing and reporting
RMG-415 Commonwealth Grants and Procurement Connected Policies
RMG-421 GrantConnect: Publishing Grants
ANAO Better Practice Guide – Implementing Better Practice Grants Administration – December 2013
Commonwealth Contracting Suite (CCS)
SourceIT Contracts and SouceIT Plus
RMG-400 Approving commitments of relevant money
RMG-414 Indemnities, guarantees or warranties granted by the Commonwealth
RMG-417 Supplier Pay On-Time or Pay Interest Policy
RMG-420 Mandatory use of the Commonwealth Contracting Suite for procurement under $200,000
Finance Circular 2006/06 – Foreign Exchange Risk Management Guidelines
Legal Services Directions 2017 (Cth)
OLSC guidance notes on the Legal Services Directions
OLSC information about the legal services multi-use list
Attorney-General’s Department Secretary’s Review of Commonwealth Legal Services
Commonwealth legal services expenditure reports
Gruen, Learning from experience: Purchasing legal services, February 2011
Blunn and Kreiger, Report of the Review of Commonwealth Legal Services Procurement, November 2009
ANAO performance audit – Legal Services Arrangements in the Australian Public Service, 2005