HEALTH — PROGRAM TENDER PROCESS
1143. Hon
Dr BRIAN WALKER to the Leader of the House representing the Minister for
Health:
My question is very similarly worded
to Hon Dr Brad Pettitt's. I refer the minister to the 2021 tender
process entered into by the Department of Health for the whole of school
healthy eating program.
(1) How many tenders were received?
(2) Of that
total, how many were from organisations based in Western Australia, and how
many from interstate?
(3) Was any
weighting given to local Western Australia–based tenders, on the basis
that these would be of additional economic value to the state?
(4) For the
period of the contract, how much money is the government currently sending
interstate to deliver this program across Western Australian schools?
Hon SUE
ELLERY replied:
It is exactly the same question.
People need to coordinate themselves a little bit when they make promises to
people to ask questions.
I thank the honourable member for
some notice of the question, and the answer is exactly the same one that I gave
to the question asked in exactly the same terms by Hon Dr Brad Pettitt about
five minutes ago.
(1)–(4) Procurement
for the whole of school healthy eating program was conducted by the Department
of Health through a competitive, open-tender process in accordance with the Western
Australian government's delivering community services in partnership
policy. Although there is an intent to support Western Australian
organisations, tender evaluation panels are also required to focus on
value-for-money considerations. The nature of tenders received through a community
services procurement process is that tenders remain strictly confidential and
details of the offers received cannot be disclosed. Importantly, the successful
respondent is contributing to local employment within Western Australia and
engaging local suppliers to contribute to service delivery.