The Australian Industry Participation (AIP) policy aims to ensure that Australian industry has full, fair and reasonable opportunity to compete for work in major projects and to enhance industry capabilities. This evaluation assessed the AIP policy’s design, implementation and outcomes to assess whether it was achieving its intended objectives. It found it continues to address...

This paper explores APS commissioning and contracting and how it deploys these tools to pursue outcomes. It sets out a vision for an APS that has transitioned from a procurement mindset and adopted approaches that allow it to fully leverage the potential within the APS, and has the capability to design and steward complex systems...

Statutory trusts have been considered and proposed by a number of inquiries as a means of ensuring prompt progress payments to subcontractors, and ring-fencing payments in the event of insolvency of their contractor. The ASBFEO has considered the various arguments for and against cascading deemed statutory trusts and, on balance, supports their implementation in the...

The purpose of this guide is to help agencies and contractors apply the best practice principles for major projects.

The findings and arguments presented in this paper are based on a variety of data including face to face interviews with clothing industry, government and union representatives.