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  <date date="2024-08-29T11:00:00+09:30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Estimates Replies</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Consultants and Contractors</name>
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          <heading>Consultants and Contractors</heading>
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        <name>In reply to Mr PATTERSON</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Morphett</electorate>
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          <question date="2024-08-29T01:30:00+09:30">
            <name>Consultants and Contractors</name>
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            <timeStamp time="2024-08-30T00:00:00+09:30" />In reply to <by role="member" id="5384" referenceid="facf38f4c95b4f27b86257b48e3f699a">Mr PATTERSON (Morphett)</by> (25 June 2024).  (Estimates Committee B)</inserted>
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        <name>The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <question date="2024-08-29T01:30:00+09:30">
            <name>Consultants and Contractors</name>
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            <by role="member" id="" referenceid="" uid="82ca1830c568466c90f936f7c83b4f42">The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN (Minister for Primary Industries and Regional Development, Minister for Forest Industries):</by>  I have been advised that for the Department of Primary Industries and Regions:</inserted>
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          <inserted>The estimated total cost for engagement of consultants is $208,000 and contractors is $10.87 million in 2024-25.</inserted>
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          <inserted>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. </inserted>
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                <cell>Consultancies</cell>
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                <cell>Fishwell Pty Ltd</cell>
                <cell>Project lead for Blueprint for the Future Directions of the Marine Scalefish Fishery</cell>
                <cell>$60,000</cell>
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          <inserted>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. </inserted>
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          <inserted>Some contracts cover multiple financial years. </inserted>
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                <cell>Contractors</cell>
                <cell>Purpose</cell>
                <cell>Total Estimated Cost</cell>
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                <cell>Plant Health Australia Limited </cell>
                <cell>Model Development for electronic Plant Health Assurance Certificate</cell>
                <cell>$192,818</cell>
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              <row>
                <cell>Aus-Meat Limited</cell>
                <cell>Food and safety auditing services</cell>
                <cell>$160,000</cell>
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              <row>
                <cell>End2End Consulting Pty Ltd.</cell>
                <cell>Project Lead—West Beach Infrastructure Upgrade Works – Project Management  </cell>
                <cell>$135,168</cell>
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              <row>
                <cell>Hosking Willis Architecture Pty Ltd. </cell>
                <cell>Architectural Services – Concept design – SIT facility </cell>
                <cell>$50,000</cell>
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              <row>
                <cell>BDO Services Pty Ltd </cell>
                <cell>Economic Analysis of fisheries and aquaculture activities within SA</cell>
                <cell>$871,927</cell>
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              <row>
                <cell>Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu </cell>
                <cell>Business Case to attract people to careers in the food, wine and agribusiness sectors in SA.</cell>
                <cell>$63,734</cell>
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              <row>
                <cell>Pinion Advisory </cell>
                <cell>Compilation of Crop and Pasture Report</cell>
                <cell>$36,364</cell>
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                <cell>BDO Services Pty Ltd </cell>
                <cell>Preparing Primary Industries for the impact of compounding and complex disasters</cell>
                <cell>$131,330</cell>
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              <row>
                <cell>Phoenix Australia </cell>
                <cell>Review of PIRSA's Family and Business Mentor Service</cell>
                <cell>$100,000</cell>
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              <row>
                <cell>Barratt Mollison Consulting Group Pty Ltd </cell>
                <cell>SA River Murray Transition Program—Program Oversight, delivery &amp; technical services</cell>
                <cell>$220,000</cell>
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                <cell>BDO Services Pty Ltd </cell>
                <cell>Business case for a replacement coastal research vessel</cell>
                <cell>$34,000</cell>
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              <row>
                <cell>Urrbrae Foods Pty Ltd. </cell>
                <cell>Senior Food Technologist Services</cell>
                <cell>$220,000</cell>
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                <cell>Solstice Media Pty Ltd</cell>
                <cell>Ag Town of the Year award partnership</cell>
                <cell>$29,334</cell>
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                <cell>Apex Biometry Pty Ltd</cell>
                <cell>Statistical Services and designing experiments for Australian Eggs 'Updating layer grain apparent metabolisable energy (AME) data for near infrared (NIR).</cell>
                <cell>$14,300</cell>
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              <row>
                <cell>John L Black Consulting</cell>
                <cell>Australian Eggs – 'Updating grain AME data for NIR'.</cell>
                <cell>$19,800</cell>
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              <row>
                <cell>Proyectos Y Mas </cell>
                <cell>Finalisation of the use of Ivanti Neuron for onboarding.</cell>
                <cell>$25,000</cell>
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              <row>
                <cell>Proyectos Y Mas</cell>
                <cell>Improving the Request to Fill forms in the iApply system for Human Resources.</cell>
                <cell>$20,000</cell>
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              <row>
                <cell>Cindy Flower</cell>
                <cell>Assistance in developing the Suicide Prevention Plan.</cell>
                <cell>$12,000</cell>
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                <cell>LA &amp; AM Matthews PTY LTD (Wrights Air) </cell>
                <cell>Aviation Services</cell>
                <cell>$50,000</cell>
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                <cell>Gum Creek Station</cell>
                <cell>Bait making and Coordination</cell>
                <cell>$50,000</cell>
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              <row>
                <cell>Wild Dog Trapper Program (multiple) </cell>
                <cell>Wild dog trapping program</cell>
                <cell>$430,000</cell>
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