CALENDAR YEAR 2016 SENATE ORDER ON NON-CORPORATE COMMONWEALTH ENTITY CONTRACTS LISTING RELATING TO THE PERIOD 1 JANUARY 2016 TO 31 DECEMBER 2016

Pursuant to the Senate Order on non-corporate Commonwealth entity contracts the following table sets out contracts entered into by Australian Electoral Commission which provide for a consideration to the value of $100,000 or more (GST inclusive) and which:
 
(a)	have not been fully performed as at 31 December 2016 or 
(b)	have been entered into during the 12 months prior to 31 December 2016.

Most of the Contracts listed contain confidentiality provisions of a general nature that are designed to protect the confidential information of the parties that may be obtained or generated in carrying out the contract.

The reasons for including such clauses include:
•	Ordinary commercial prudence that requires protection of trade secrets, proprietary information and the like; and/or
•	Protection of other Commonwealth material and personal information.

Contractor	Subject matter	Amount of consideration	Start Date	Anticipated End Date	Whether contract contains provisions requiring the parties to maintain confidentiality of any of its provisions
(Y/N)	Reason (s)	Whether contract contains ‘Other requirements of confidentiality’
(Y/N) 	Reason (s)	
There were no non-procurements to report during the 2016 calendar year	

Estimated cost of complying with this Order:		$9 935.05
Method used to estimate the cost:			Average hourly rate (Usually a per hour rate based on the level of staff involved)