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  <name>House of Assembly</name>
  <date date="2024-09-10T11:00:00+09:30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
  <parliamentNum>55</parliamentNum>
  <sessionNum>1</sessionNum>
  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
  <house>House of Assembly</house>
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  <dateModified time="2024-09-24T14:30:25+09:30" />
  <proceeding continued="true">
    <name>Estimates Replies</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Consultants and Contractors</name>
      <text id="202409102a829bce8555495aa0002729">
        <inserted>
          <heading>Consultants and Contractors</heading>
        </inserted>
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      <talker role="member" id="6982" referenceid="3d5cb79b4d454cc980b2842cae5afaaa" kind="question">
        <name>In reply to Mr BATTY</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Bragg</electorate>
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          <question date="2024-09-10T01:30:00+09:30">
            <name>Consultants and Contractors</name>
          </question>
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        <text id="202409102a829bce8555495aa0002730">
          <inserted>In reply to <by role="member" id="6982" referenceid="3d5cb79b4d454cc980b2842cae5afaaa">Mr BATTY (Bragg)</by> (20 June 2024).  (Estimates Committee A)</inserted>
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        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="202409102a829bce8555495aa0002731">
          <inserted>
            <by role="member" id="" referenceid="">The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Attorney-General, Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector):</by>  I have been advised that for the ReturnToWork Corporation of South Australia:</inserted>
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          <inserted>The estimated total cost for engagement of consultants and contractors in 2024-25 is $24,852,649.</inserted>
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        <text id="202409102a829bce8555495aa0002733">
          <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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              <rowtitle>
                <cell>Consultancies</cell>
                <cell>Purpose</cell>
                <cell>Total Estimated Cost</cell>
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                <cell>Finity Consulting</cell>
                <cell>Actuarial advice</cell>
                <cell>$1,098,375</cell>
              </row>
              <row>
                <cell>Frontier Advisors</cell>
                <cell>Investment advice</cell>
                <cell>$546,343</cell>
              </row>
            </table>
          </inserted>
        </text>
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        <text id="202409102a829bce8555495aa0002736">
          <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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        <text id="202409102a829bce8555495aa0002737">
          <inserted>
            <table>
              <rowtitle>
                <cell>Contractors</cell>
                <cell>Purpose</cell>
                <cell>Total Estimated Cost</cell>
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              <row>
                <cell>Scyne Advisory</cell>
                <cell>Digital Transformation implementation</cell>
                <cell>$1,172,881</cell>
              </row>
              <row>
                <cell>DataSpark</cell>
                <cell>Tableau support</cell>
                <cell>$50,400</cell>
              </row>
            </table>
          </inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="202409102a829bce8555495aa0002738" />
        <text id="202409102a829bce8555495aa0002739">
          <inserted>The difference between the estimated total for contractors and consultants and the amounts disclosed above relates to planned work for which the contractors and consultants have not yet been engaged.</inserted>
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