House of Assembly: Thursday, August 29, 2024

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Consultants and Contractors

In reply to Mr PATTERSON (Morphett) (25 June 2024). (Estimates Committee B)

The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN (Minister for Primary Industries and Regional Development, Minister for Forest Industries): I have been advised that for the Department of Primary Industries and Regions:

The estimated total cost for engagement of consultants is $208,000 and contractors is $10.87 million in 2024-25.

The following is a summary of external consultants that have been engaged at a total estimated cost above $10,000, the nature of work undertaken, and the estimated cost for 2024-25.

Consultancies Purpose Total Estimated Cost
Fishwell Pty Ltd Project lead for Blueprint for the Future Directions of the Marine Scalefish Fishery $60,000


The following is a summary of external contractors that have been engaged at a total estimated cost above $10,000, the nature of work undertaken, and the estimated cost for 2024-25.

Some contracts cover multiple financial years.

Contractors Purpose Total Estimated Cost
Plant Health Australia Limited Model Development for electronic Plant Health Assurance Certificate $192,818
Aus-Meat Limited Food and safety auditing services $160,000
End2End Consulting Pty Ltd. Project Lead—West Beach Infrastructure Upgrade Works – Project Management $135,168
Hosking Willis Architecture Pty Ltd. Architectural Services – Concept design – SIT facility $50,000
BDO Services Pty Ltd Economic Analysis of fisheries and aquaculture activities within SA $871,927
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Business Case to attract people to careers in the food, wine and agribusiness sectors in SA. $63,734
Pinion Advisory Compilation of Crop and Pasture Report $36,364
BDO Services Pty Ltd Preparing Primary Industries for the impact of compounding and complex disasters $131,330
Phoenix Australia Review of PIRSA's Family and Business Mentor Service $100,000
Barratt Mollison Consulting Group Pty Ltd SA River Murray Transition Program—Program Oversight, delivery & technical services $220,000
BDO Services Pty Ltd Business case for a replacement coastal research vessel $34,000
Urrbrae Foods Pty Ltd. Senior Food Technologist Services $220,000
Solstice Media Pty Ltd Ag Town of the Year award partnership $29,334
Apex Biometry Pty Ltd Statistical Services and designing experiments for Australian Eggs 'Updating layer grain apparent metabolisable energy (AME) data for near infrared (NIR). $14,300
John L Black Consulting Australian Eggs – 'Updating grain AME data for NIR'. $19,800
Proyectos Y Mas Finalisation of the use of Ivanti Neuron for onboarding. $25,000
Proyectos Y Mas Improving the Request to Fill forms in the iApply system for Human Resources. $20,000
Cindy Flower Assistance in developing the Suicide Prevention Plan. $12,000
LA & AM Matthews PTY LTD (Wrights Air) Aviation Services $50,000
Gum Creek Station Bait making and Coordination $50,000
Wild Dog Trapper Program (multiple) Wild dog trapping program $430,000