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David Madden is a highly experienced leader and investigator with almost two decades in investigation, corporate analysis, management, and leadership reviews, following a 29-year career in policing, culminating as Deputy Commissioner of Operations for NSW Police. Currently operating under DBM Independent Consultants, he specialises in high-level workplace investigations, risk analysis, workplace trouble shooting and cultural/operational review, policy reviews, executive mediation, and leadership coaching. Madden's career highlights include directing statewide policing operations, developing accountability mechanisms, and managing emergency responses, including counter-terrorism efforts. He has a strong background in ethical governance, having conducted investigations into workplace misconduct, fraud, historical sexual assault, institutional abuse and corruption for various government and non-government agencies. Madden holds a Master of Letters in Sociology and a Bachelor of Applied Social Science in Justice and Psychology. His certifications include a Cert IV in Government Security. He has been recognised with several awards, such as the Australian Police Medal for Ethical Service and the NSW Premier’s Multicultural Affairs Award. Madden is committed to ethical standards, accountability and strategic management, making him a valuable asset to any organisation seeking high-level investigative and governance expertise.

RP Infrastructure (RPI) is a leading provider of advisory, cost and project management services across the entire infrastructure spectrum.

Founded in 1994, RPI merged with Ranbury Management Group in 2023 to form a team of 350+ professionals, providing clients with integrated solutions across social, commercial, transport, utilities and energy infrastructure.  

Our highly experienced advisors and project managers have extensive industry knowledge and diverse backgrounds in architecture, design, engineering, quantity surveying, health planning and construction management, ensuring we have end-to-end expertise across all aspects of the project life cycle.

For 30 years, RPI has worked with many of Australia’s most influential brands and institutions from the government, private and not-for-profit sectors delivering city shaping and nation-building infrastructure.

Our service is driven by a collaborative approach based on strong partnerships. We are known for working closely with our clients and stakeholders to deliver high-profile, complex projects in the community.

With our focus on quality, we are dedicated to delivering extraordinary outcomes for our clients; converting visions to reality in the delivery of innovative and sustainable projects that offer functional, technical, commercial and aesthetic excellence. 
 

William Buck Advisors, proudly Australian-owned and operated for over 130 years, is a trusted advisor for Government and Business with offices in New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, Queensland and the Australian Capital Territory.

Our comprehensive suite of services includes:

• Accounting & Advisory
• Taxation
• Financial and Performance Audits
• Forensic Accountancy

Our credentials:
Federal Government

• Australian Government Department of Finance, Management Advisory Services Panel.
• Australian National Audit Office Panel

NSW State Government

• Scheme SCN 0005 - Full Participation
• Audit Office of NSW

Incorporated in 1998 in the United Kingdom, IOD PARC is a private employee-owned consulting company and a leading, global specialist-provider in results-based performance assessment in international development. 

Working with a range of international bodies, IOD PARC has led over 1100 consultancy assignments in more than 100 countries world-wide. With its varied client base, including multilateral, bilateral, and UN agencies, IOD PARC has developed an acclaimed reputation for its work that combines the rigour and analytical skills of monitoring and evaluation expertise with a process-based approach to organisational development and change interventions.

Our specialist expertise in monitoring and evaluation ranges from small, project-based evaluations, through to wide-range assessments of multi-actor partnerships and complex global institutional arrangements. We develop and support implementation of performance assessment systems at agency wide, country program, sector and investment levels and provide M&E helpdesk support to government departments, bilateral and multilateral aid organisations.

Our consultancy services focus on six core services 

• Assessment and Evaluation 
• Supporting Change 
• Strategy Development 
• Organisational Systems 
• Evidence and Learning 
• Quality Assurance 

Sparke Helmore provides strategic probity and procurement advice to Commonwealth entities in support of a range of major procurements, funding initiatives and governance bodies. Our team members are practising lawyers who hold AGSVA security clearances, meaning that Commonwealth clients receive the highest quality advice, informed by the legal and policy framework, and delivered by a practical and friendly team. We have extensive experience supporting the Commonwealth through high-value and sensitive projects, ensuring that they can achieve real outcomes and effectively withstand external scrutiny. 

From a privacy perspective, Sparke Helmore offers a highly experienced and cohesive national team of privacy practitioners who deliver advice and support to Commonwealth entities. We undertake Privacy Threshold Assessments (PTAs) and Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs), and advise on complex Privacy Act issues and Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) investigations. Our team has a strong track record in supporting Commonwealth clients to understand and comply with their privacy and secrecy obligations, particularly during the implementation of change programs.

BRG has been established since 1999 providing professional services to Federal and State Governments.  The company is a Small to Medium Enterprise (SME) and currently provides services in all Australian States and Territories and is based in Canberra.

Services we provide:

1. Financial Assessments:  Financial viability assessments on respondents supporting an approach to market.
2. Budget Preparation:  Formulation of budget templates and the engagement activities to support the preparation of Budget Estimates (BEs) and Additional Estimates (AEs).
3. Formulation of Pricing Schedules:   Preparation of pricing templates to capture Respondent pricing information.
4. Formulation of Financial Evaluation Models:  Creation and automation of financial evaluation models to support complex procurements.
5. Strategic Risk management services. Managing the capture, management and mitigation of risks and issues.
6. Commercial advisory services:  Undertaking drafting of Industry Briefs (IB), Invitations to Respond (ITR) and Requests for Quotation Services (RFQTS) supporting complex procurements.
7. Financial Advisory:  Advice on the best financing method, including Lease vs Buy, Services vs Buy, joint partnerships, etc.
8. Technical Financial:   Application of Australian Accounting Standards to the issue in question.

We specialise in Outcomes and Fixed Price engagements and have a large cohort of pricing, financial and commercial resources who can deliver either short or long engagements.

Paxon Group is a specialist financial and commercial advisory firm delivering innovative advice to address the unique challenges and objectives of our clients. We provide in-depth analysis, financial modelling, cost-benefit analysis, risk assessment and implementation advice for a diverse range of social infrastructure projects, programs and policies.  

Paxon is an SME with 60 specialist advisers located in Sydney, Perth, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Darwin. We deliver bespoke financial and commercial solutions for Commonwealth Government entities, serving various sectors including:

• Housing
• Health and aged care
• Education (early childhood, primary, secondary, higher education and tertiary)
• Clean and renewable energy
• Transport, ports and logistics
• Water and waste  
• Sports and stadia 
• Justice and corrections
• Agriculture, fisheries and forestry
• Regional development

Our team are experts in technical financial advisory, financial and economic analysis, financial assessments, investment banking, accounting services and financial audits. We also advise on strategic procurement, risk management, program and project development and evaluation.

Key services include:  

• Project finance
• Capital structuring and markets
• Risk assessments
• Financial modelling
• Investment proposals
• Institutional structure management
• M&A arrangements
• Funding structures and leasing
• Benchmarking and analysis
• Financial viability assessments 
• Competition and market analysis
• Business cases and cost benefit analysis
• Structured solutions for investment proposals. 

HWL Ebsworth Lawyers (HWLE) is a national firm which utilises qualified lawyers exclusively in providing Management Advisory Services to Commonwealth agencies including Privacy and Probity Services. Having intimate legal knowledge of policy, guidelines and processes in these areas, we have a unique ability to provide high quality consultancy services to government. 

Privacy 

HWLE's personnel are recognised advisors, with highly developed knowledge of the principles and requirements of the Privacy Act 1988. We advise agencies on their obligations, conduct PIAs, undertake privacy reviews, conduct privacy training, produce guidelines and notices, advise on data security assurance, and conduct privacy and data protection health checks. Our contacts for privacy services, Michael Palfrey, Will Sharpe and Kristina Mihalic, are well-known to the Commonwealth and sought after for their practical approach to managing complex privacy issues. 

Probity 

HWLE's advisors have deep understanding of the CPRs, CGRGs and according legal framework. George Marques and Brian Ambler have over 30 years' experience advising Commonwealth agencies and corporate entities in relation to procurements and grant processes. Their experience encompasses providing briefings, preparing probity plans and guidelines, competitive dialogue protocols and training to procurement and evaluation teams. They also provide ministerial briefings and investigation of conflicts of interest and complaints.

McGrathNicol stands as a trusted adviser to many government departments and agencies. With a team of over 350 professionals nationally and 50 locally in Canberra, we deliver practical solutions to navigate complex situations and manage key risks. We pride ourselves on our commitment to excellence, with our industry-leading experts providing pragmatic advice and tangible outcomes through a collaborative, partnership approach. We are a sovereign firm with a focused suite of services, and we operate free from the conflicts faced by larger firms.

Our dedicated Canberra team specialises in providing high quality advisory services including:

• risk management 
• internal audit
• fraud control
• forensic investigation and data analysis
• grants administration
• financial analysis and financial risk assessment
• financial and cost modelling, forecasting, and budgeting
• procurement and probity
• program and project management / assurance
• national security and counter foreign interference risk advice, security threat investigations, vulnerability assessments and insider risk mitigation advice
• technology and cyber risk.

Our qualified and experienced staff, take pride in their performance and are here to help. We thrive on collaborating with our clients and are committed to sharing knowledge, delivering service excellence, and providing value for money.

YouGov Australia delivers cutting-edge custom research, specialising in political, social, and market trends. Our extensive experience in conducting in-depth and impactful research, with expertise in Government and social research, ensures tailored insights to meet your unique needs.

Leveraging a global panel of over 27 million members, including 630,000+ Australian panellists, we provide accurate, representative samples. Our quantitative experts work closely with you to design and execute research aligned with your goals, using methodologies such as opinion polls, brand perception tracking, stakeholder sizing, and advanced analytics like segmentation and predictive modeling. We also offer streaming data and automated dashboards (e.g., Crunch) for real-time insights. Rigorous quality control, including real-time checks and comprehensive data cleaning, ensures reliable results.

We excel in exploring the "why", resulting in impactful storytelling and action-focused reporting. Our qualitative experts design and run focus groups, in-depth interviews, online diaries, and ethnographies to provide you with deep insights. We produce detailed and insightful reports, presentations, and workshops to ensure your studies are actionable and get traction.

Our proven track record includes accurately predicting major election outcomes and referendum results. We are fully compliant with GDPR and the Australian Privacy Act, ensuring your data's security and confidentiality. We are also ISO 20252 certified, highlighting our commitment to high-quality research standards.

Partner with YouGov for bespoke market research and intelligence that drives informed decision-making. Visit our website to learn more about how we can support your research objectives. 

Integrity Advisory is a boutique advisory service established in 2012. We specialise in assisting Commonwealth entities with the integrity of their operations.  We can provide:

• Fraud and Corruption Risk Assessments
• Fraud and Corruption Control Plans
• Integrity Frameworks, including comprehensive governance, policies and procedures.

1. Research agency specialising in retirement and people of mature age. We are a Sydney-based research agency, specialising in research about the 'mature age', 'older' or 'retiree' markets.
2. Plain language content /message testing specialists

We are also plain language research specialists. We use message and content testing to help our clients develop simpler documents such as statements, letters, and forms.

Our testing frameworks are based on plain language principles, neuroscience, interaction design, and behavioural psychology.

Research methods
We offer qualitative and quantitative research. We are all classically trained researchers with the full range of techniques and methods at our fingertips.
Academically, we are social scientists. Our consultants are trained in at least one of: anthropology, psychology, sociology, literature, linguistics, semiotics, marketing, behavioural science, and interaction and service design. We are not boxed in by commitment to only one discipline.

Clients have included ASIC, the ACCC, the Productivity Commission, the NSW Police Force and many financial services organisations.

Standards and certification

• Company Partners of the Research Society
• ISO20252 accreditation 
• The Science of Plain Language Certification 
• Design Thinking certification 
• Customer Journey certification 
• Accessibility: How To Design For All certification
• Advanced Semiotics (MRS) 
   

Infrastructure Advisory Group (IAG) is Australia’s most trusted strategic advisory and delivery services firm. Our people have assisted clients to successfully plan, transact and deliver more than $100 billion of projects across Australia’s eastern seaboard. This combined experience ensures IAG’s team members effectively navigate complex project governance frameworks, challenging stakeholders, multifaceted technical environments and regulatory intricacies to deliver value for money outcomes.

We bring together a team of the industry’s most respected practitioners to assist clients optimise social and economic outcomes through delivery of world class infrastructure assets and services. With extensive multidisciplinary experience comprising 170+ infrastructure specialists, we have unparalleled full project‐lifecycle experience across the strategic, commercial, legal, technical and delivery aspects of complex, large‐scale infrastructure projects.

At IAG we understand the approach required and support needed to build and deliver complex capital programs and projects. Working hand-in-hand with clients and industry, we leverage insights and lessons learnt from diverse projects to achieve project certainty and deliver on objectives.

Ruth Bayley draws on her substantial experience of government procurement to deliver practical advice that helps clients to undertake their procurement processes in ways that achieve results whilst also demonstrating compliance with the procurement policy and legislative framework. Ruth holds a PhD from QUT which examines the explanations given by corrupt public officials and suppliers for their corrupt behaviour in Australian public sector procurement processes. Her research informs Ruth’s strategic procurement and probity advising.

Ruth is committed to providing prompt, well-reasoned, practical, and independent advice for clients. She firmly believes that clients engage her to identify potential process, probity and reputational risks and help them to devise practical plans to manage or mitigate these, even if that is sometimes uncomfortable or challenging. She takes this obligation most seriously.

Ruth provides advice promptly, recognising how stressful waiting for advice can be for clients If possible in the circumstances, she provides clients with multiple options to consider, so that clients can choose the approaches that suit them. However, Ruth always provides the advice needed in the circumstances, even if this may not necessarily be what the client “wants to hear”. Ruth works cooperatively with other members of the procurement team and advisers.

DMV Consulting specialises in delivering management consulting, accounting, procurement, ICT and business advisory and labour hire services across Commonwealth, State and local government environments. We are a local Canberra based SME, DISP member, with proven sovereign capability and our team deliver services across corporate management consultancy, supply chain delivery, ICT, people and culture, corporate governance, policy and strategy, program and project management, procurement and commercial, probity (non-legal), risk and governance, intelligence, data, security and organisational change and transformation resilience.

DMV Consulting is a well-established and experienced firm offering a comprehensive range of services within government sectors. We have achieved considerable growth into information management and business improvement services. Our strengths include establishing and managing productive relationships, managing communications and producing high quality well-structured service outcomes.

We offer over 20 years of demonstrated experience working as a trusted Panel member to a wide range of government Agencies and private sector organisations, including 20 years within the federal, state and local government marketplace. DMV Consulting is a reputable and experienced provider of services within government sectors. Our emphasis on quality assurance and compliance, and membership of many industry bodies underscores our commitment to professionalism and excellence in service delivery. 

At Leading Insight, we are dedicated to empowering organisations through:

Evidence-Based Research - Applying rigorous methodologies and delivering actionable insights to inform decision-making.
Strategic Advice - Offering expert guidance to help clients navigate complex challenges to achieve outcomes.
Capability Uplift - Enhancing organisational and workforce capabilities to improve performance and resilience.
Transformation and Delivery Support - Assisting clients to deliver sustainably.

With a proven track record, we have supported over 60 major clients across public, private, and not-for-profit sectors in Australia and globally.

Our methodologies integrate contemporary research, global best-practice, and techniques to achieve outcomes in complex and politically sensitive environments. We leverage advanced technologies and continuously invest in developing innovative solutions to help our clients lead and stay relevant in a rapidly changing world.

Our people have led major transformations (through to chief executive and board levels), and assisted dozens of organisations through external advice, support and learning.

We prioritise a client-centred approach, viewing our clients' success as our own. By partnering with Leading Insight, you will benefit from our unwavering commitment to quality, on-time and on-budget delivery, and our dedication to fostering positive and lasting impacts on people, organisations and society.

Tailored HR Solutions is a dynamic boutique collective of highly experienced business and HR expert advisors. Our services are underpinned by proven methodologies and tools, enabling us to work collaboratively with our clients and build lasting capability. We leave each organisation better prepared and enabled to succeed – now and into the future.  

We help solve complex challenges impacting our clients, working in partnership with them to create sustainable, actionable solutions that uplift their organisational performance and unlock the potential of their people. Our expertise covers a wide range of areas, including:

• Workforce Planning & People Analytics
• Strategic Planning
• Organisational Design & Transition
• HR Transformation
• People Capability Development
• Workshop & Micro Learning Design and Facilitation.

We value what makes you different. We celebrate the unique characteristics of each organisation, discarding the one-size-fits-all approach and designing impactful, tailored business and workforce solutions that effectively harness your organisation’s greatest asset – your people.

We work in partnership with your team, taking the time to understand your organisational DNA and what sets you apart. These opportunities for collaboration provide us with the insights needed to craft fit-for-purpose solutions, powered by your people and the right evidence and technologies, to uplift workforce engagement, productivity, and performance. 

ARTD is a public policy advisory firm, specialising in monitoring and evaluation. Since 1989, our team has delivered developmental, process and impact evaluations exclusively to government and community organisations. We work with all levels of government supporting effective decision making and building evaluation capacity.

Over 35 years in public policy have allowed us to hone our expertise, processes and ethics. We listen wholeheartedly. We work with you to understand your needs and goals, and then tailor our approach accordingly.  

Our vision is for a more thoughtful world. Robust evidence and data underpin our analysis. The collective wisdom of our highly engaged senior leadership team informs every project. We back this up with strong project management processes, flexibility and high levels of client service.

Our people care deeply about their work and the impact it has for government, the environment and the wider community. As an employee-owned SME, we have teams in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and the surrounding regions. We also have an extensive network of lived experience and First Nations associates around the country who co-design and co-deliver projects with us.

Connect with us for strategic evaluation, monitoring and research services that increase the likelihood of program success.

Leeson Valuers is a Queensland owned and managed SME and has been providing independent property advisory and valuation services since 1985.  We have offices in Brisbane, Toowoomba, Burleigh Heads, Lismore, Sydney, Dubbo, Melbourne and undertake property valuations throughout QLD, NSW and VIC. We are Registered and Certified Practising Valuers licensed to operate in all states and territories of Australia, providing property related services to a range of legal, public, private clients.  

Our motto:  The years behind us have put us well ahead.

Leeson Valuers is a team of 10 highly skilled and dedicated members. We are recognised for our high-quality work and are regularly appointed to act as expert witness valuers. All staff have the knowledge and experience to ensure that landowners have confidence in the valuation process and that a fair outcome for all parties is a priority.

Leeson Valuers is the only Queensland based valuation firm appointed by the Department of Finance to undertake valuations for the Whole of Australian Government (WOAG).  We are also appointed to undertake valuations for the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) and the Queensland Government Audit Office.  We have met all the requirements to operate on federal government properties including our security clearances.

Corebridge is a strategy, transformation and analytics firm offering management consulting services to the public and private sectors across Australia. 
We work with clients to provide tailored advice to navigate the complexities of their organisation and broader industry. We recognise that each organisation has a unique mandate, faces distinct challenges, and serves a different segment of the population.

Our mission is to make a positive and genuine impact on our clients, employees, and communities through the following points of difference:

• We harness comprehensive and diverse expertise, across integrated services to support the unique needs of your organisation.
• We approach every project with unwavering integrity and the highest ethical standards, ensuring that transparency and accountability are lived values that guide our every action.
• Our advice is tailored to your context, merging theoretical foundation with practicality, aligning with your values, operations, and community objectives.

We help your organisation realise its potential by translating ideas into actions; transforming aspirations into achievements; converting challenges into opportunities, removing obstacles hindering progress.

Our experienced consultants have assisted an extensive array of organisations achieve lasting and tangible outcomes. By delivering hands-on solutions, we ensure that knowledge transfer practically applied for immediate and sustainable impact.

At PeakXD, we are dedicated to designing customer-centric experiences and services that truly engage users. Based in Brisbane, Australia, we specialise in service design, customer research and insights, CX design, and UX testing services. Our collaborative, user-centred design approach spans multiple channels, interfaces and technologies, providing clarity and cohesive customer experiences.

We have passion, integrity, and commitment to quality. By deeply understanding your customers, we create engaging and effective customer experiences. Our services include:

• Service design to streamline and enhance service delivery
• Customer and user research to uncover insights and drive informed decisions
• UX and CX design to craft intuitive and delightful experiences
• Usability testing to get feedback from users, identify usability issues and co-design viable solutions
• In-house and corporate UX training to build your team's capability in customer research, service design or UX.

Having trained over 52 large corporate and government agencies in Australia, we deliver flexible training when it suits your team and projects, aligned to the Australian DTA Digital Service Standard.

With a proven track record of successful projects across various industries, PeakXD is well-equipped to meet the diverse needs of government departments and agencies.

MBB Group is an independent consultancy firm, specialising in finding and developing innovative, effective solutions to complex and complicated infrastructure projects.

Leveraging our experience across the project lifecycle, we are able to offer effective and innovative program, project, planning, commercial, transaction, development and delivery management services.

We have advised on, contributed to and led successful projects across Government and the private sector. These include major transport, energy, resources and social infrastructure projects, under all contracting models and across the whole project lifecycle.

Our services include:

• Strategy: Complex problem solving and commercially focused advice through a highly capable team to solve client problems, inform investment decisions, drive commercial outcomes, mitigate risk and enable improved organisational, P3 and commercial performance for major infrastructure.
• Development: Helping you to see the key issues and make the right decisions by planning and delivering whole-of-life value. From the project’s inception to financial close.
• Delivery: A strategic and integrated approach that draws on industry insights, practices and lessons to ensure readiness for project execution and establishment of the necessary capability in line with project risk or complexity. Delivering on time and on budget, establishing sustainable returns from your assets.
• Operations: Early strategic focus and proactive asset management to ensure you get the most out of an asset once it becomes operational ensuring the best commercial return on investment and benefit realisation defined in the development phase.

Scotwork is the world’s leading authority on mutual gain negotiation and offers strategic procurement advice, negotiation support, negotiation training, and process advisory services. 

Scotwork’s consultants can help agencies to effectively prepare for negotiations, overcome complications, fill capability gaps, and build momentum to ensure they achieve great deals and better value for money outcomes for the Commonwealth.

Scotwork can help by:

• Considering negotiation issues, objectives, and where value may be created or destroyed.
• Assessing the negotiation skills, capability, competence, capacity, precedent, scope, empowerment, and escalation for each party.
• Identifying sources of negotiation power and how to use them, including what it may do to the current power balance.
• Creating negotiation artefacts including planning and reporting documents, inclusive of strategic objectives, guiding principles, and governance arrangements to support the desired outcomes.
• Building negotiation team capability and capacity by working with individuals to enhance confidence and control over the negotiation process.
• Working with key stakeholders to transform organisational mindsets to think more strategically and create value from relationships.
• Being a trusted advisor (external point of view) when negotiating teams need honest feedback.

Scotwork has a comprehensive understanding of Commonwealth procurement legislation and processes and is deeply familiar with the Commonwealth contracting suites.

Policies that have their intended impact, are underpinned by evidence.

Given the rising contestability of ideas and claims, government needs, more than ever, trusted and independent expert advice to inform their decisions. The Australian Academy of Science - an independent learned academy - is uniquely positioned to fill this need.

The Academy convenes scientific knowledge through national and international experts in any field and draws on experienced staff working at the science-policy interface. Academy activities draw on the deep expertise within its Fellowship, which comprises over 600 of Australia's most accomplished scientists, and our extensive national and international scientific networks. 

The Academy's science advice capability is agile and adaptable. Each policy challenge is unique and requires a tailored approach. Whether it's a rapid response to an emerging scientific issue or a long-term strategic challenge, our approach is designed to fit the specific requirements of the situation. 

Harnessing our unique independence and convening power, the Academy integrates scientific understanding into policy formulation to support decision-makers.

Callida Consulting is an independent Canberra-based consulting firm focused on public sector consultancy services. We are dedicated to helping our clients solve governmental challenges by providing informed, insightful and practical consulting services.

We offer expertise across a spectrum of disciplines including financial management, policy and program development, implementation, management and evaluation, business strategy, workforce and operations improvement, change management, procurement support, data analytics and business systems improvement.

As a locally owned Small to Medium Enterprise, our approach to assignments is highly inclusive and complemented by an embedded integrity framework. We place great importance on working in genuine partnership with our clients to ensure excellent outcomes and we pride ourselves on delivering tailor made, pragmatic solutions.  We believe that quality delivery is of utmost importance and our mix of experienced consulting professionals, with diverse professional experience across government and non-government enterprises, are committed to meeting our clients’ needs.

Our focus on the public sector means that we understand the business of government. We understand how to achieve results within the complex environment and have a proven track record in delivering real value for clients.

A&P Advisory is a company focused on the provision of internal audit, risk management, assurance & governance services. We operate from Perth and have a flexible resourcing model that allows personnel to be deployed nationally.

We are passionate, dedicated professionals that focus on delivery. Our staff have worked in leadership positions in professional services firms & industry and understand how to deliver meaningful, relevant and insightful advisory services.

Skills and experience: Our delivery team has extensive local & international experience, focused on the government, not-for-profit and resources sectors. This translates into high quality service, capable stakeholder management and the provision of a broad range of insights. We are confident dealing with all levels of an organisation and believe that the value of services is maximised when it is undertaken by well qualified, experienced personnel who can build trust and credibility with management. Our senior staff are directly responsible for the delivery of services.

Services: We specialise in the delivery of internal audit services (strategic, operational, financial & compliance-focused), tailored training and functional improvement.

We help support in the identification, assessment, treatment & reporting of risks. We are experienced workshop facilitators and use effective tools to maximise efficiency & value.

Astryx is a specialist procurement and commercial services firm - that's all we do! Our team of highly skilled and personable experts bring experience across the Defence, ICT, Commonwealth and State Government sectors. As a female founded and led SME based in Canberra and Perth, we work collaboratively with our clients providing a drive to deliver you the best results in your procurement and probity matters.

We provide our advice and services as you require – we can deliver short, sharp and specific deliverables and expert advice, or provide specialist resources on a longer-term basis. Our skillsets cover the end-to-end procurement lifecycle, including:

• Strategy development
• Tender drafting
• Tender management
• Evaluation preparation, support and coaching
• Negotiation preparation
• Representation at negotiations
• Contract management preparation
• Ongoing contract management during delivery
• Probity advice

Throughout all activities, we engage directly with our clients and relevant stakeholders to ensure quality outputs. As an energetic, communicative and driven team of individuals, we love to support our clients in achieving your outcomes in an efficient and effective delivery approach.

Reason Group is a leading Canberra-based business and technology services firm specialising in government business and digital transformation. Our purpose is to make government easier for those who deliver it and the people it serves. Since 2007, we have built an extensive track record across many portfolios, including social services, taxation, food and trade, employment, and education.

Our management advisory and digital delivery services include: | Strategy & Investment | Planning & Design | Build & Deliver | Digital Leadership | Data, Rules & AI/ML | GovTech products

We specialise in Federal and State Government business with a deep understanding of whole-of-government agenda, government technology ecosystems and the complexities of government service delivery. We have extensive end-to-end capability and expertise in program design and delivery, business and technology reviews, legacy systems modernisation and replacement, enterprise platform integration and interoperability. We accelerate the adoption of new technologies that lower risk and increase the delivery of value.  We are known as a safe pair of hands due to our exceptional and consistent quality delivery,

We are a homegrown, fully Australian-owned SME company domiciled in Australia providing direct local employment, creating jobs in Australia for Australians within the digital and professional service industry.

Interaction Consulting drives positive change.

Interaction has been providing boutique + bespoke consultancy services, focusing on strategy, capability and change, for over 30 years. We partner with clients to improve productivity, enhance performance and drive positive change.

Our solutions are bespoke. We take the time to get to know you so that we can tailor a solution that we are confident will be fit for purpose and provide you with a significant return on investment.

STRATEGY - We help you choose what to do, what not to do, and when, in response to an often dynamic and unpredictable business landscape.

CAPABILITY - We build the skills, knowledge, behaviours, mindset and confidence that will help you realise your business goals.

CHANGE + TRANSFORMATION - We help you to determine if change is needed or feasible. We show you how to change, and then we bring your transformation to life.

Our highest value is trust. We establish and nurture enduring client relationships and partnerships, to support you through the good times and the bad.

Our team comprises experienced and passionate professionals and we serve anyone who needs support improving productivity and driving positive change.

We are a proudly Australian-owned small business.

Flinders University is a leading higher education provider in South Australia, known for its expertise and impactful research across many disciplines, such as science, engineering, technology, the environment, natural resources, health and medical, people and society, and defence. 

Among the many specialized groups at Flinders University are the following notable examples:

• The Australian Industrial Transformation Institute (AITI), which provides high level social, economic, industry and workforce research in response to major change and digitalisation. AITI has a long history of working successfully with industry and government on a wide range of economic and social policy challenges. The AITI team undertakes advanced quantitative and in-depth qualitative research, designs and conducts policy evaluations, and identifies policy solutions.
• The Health Economics and Health Services Research group, which provides expertise in the economic evaluation of technologies and services at all Technology Readiness Levels. The group has expertise and experience using decision analytic modelling techniques to synthesise data derived from disparate sources, including the use of expert elicitation to generate cost and effect estimates at earlier Technology Readiness Levels.

Please visit www.flinders.edu.au to find more on the breadth of research conducted by our institution.

Holan Group is an Australian owned professional services and legal firm based in Canberra. We provide services to federal government, and the private and not for profit sectors. Our organisation has grown rapidly since its inception, with staff located in Canberra and Sydney, and an operational footprint extending to Victoria, Queensland, New Zealand and Japan.

Our Experience

We provide professional and consulting services across all phases of the business lifecycle, transitioning fluidly from initial scoping and framing phases, through to governance and assurance. We possess significant security capabilities including a security accredited facility within the Canberra parliamentary triangle and the ability to sponsor AGSVA Security Clearances.

Our service offerings include:

• Business Improvement: Empower organisations to achieve operational excellence and transformation.
• Project & Program Management: Tailored solutions to help plan, foresee, coordinate, and manage projects every step of the way. 
• Workforce Optimisation: Enhance workforce capability through contemporary people-centric strategies, policies and programs. 
• Learning & Development: Build a high-performance workforce through customised development programs that drive lasting behaviour change.
• Commercial: Ensure value for money across engagements through commercial management, advisory, financial management, and specialised support.
• Legal services: Enhancing policy design and implementation through sound understanding of regulatory frameworks and legislation.
   

Jarrah Hill is a financial management consulting practice that focusses on providing high quality business, governance, accounting and financial advisory services to Commonwealth government entities. We are a small to medium enterprise (SME) located in Canberra, committed to a strategy of sustainable growth. We only employ staff that are passionate, experienced and capable of providing fit-for-purpose solutions for our clients. 

Our team consists of the best accounting and financial specialists, each with extensive experience in their respective fields.

The Jarrah Difference
We take the time to understand your business

By investing time in getting to know your business, we can use that knowledge to provide practical and fit-for-purpose solutions. We never deliver boilerplate or one-size fits all solutions as they rarely meet your expectations or requirements.

We provide a hands-on approach

Our directors turn up for more than just the entry and exit meetings. When we include senior resources in our proposals, those staff remain hands-on throughout the entire project, helping to deliver you the highest quality solution possible.

Our prices are competitive

We keep our overhead costs low so we can invest in employing the best people and providing a competitive price to our clients.

Charles Kendall Australia (CKA) is an Australian owned specialist procurement and probity advisory firm (Small to Medium Enterprise) with a dynamic team of procurement, contract management and probity specialists that have extensive experience across both public and private sectors in Australia and internationally.

Since our commencement in 2006, we have delivered a total of over 600 engagements, including services to all levels of government across Australia. Our key areas of Service include:

• Strategic Sourcing and Procurement Advice: we have delivered approximately 100 procurement strategy engagements.
• Technical Procurement Services (Procurement Management / Delivery): we have delivered approximately 200 procurement delivery engagements.
• Category and Contract Management: we have delivered over 30 category management and contract management engagements .
• Procurement Reviews and Process / Procedure Development: We have delivered approximately 30 engagements relating to procurement reviews and process / procedure development.
• Probity Advice and Audit Services: We have delivered over 250 probity advisory / audit engagements across the full range of categories and procurement methodologies.

We are project management and advisory specialists that provide an array of services, including:

• Project Management & Contract Administration
• Business Case development and Economic Analysis
• Procurement and Transaction Management
• Decarbonisation and Climate Advisory
• Sustainability Strategy, Reporting and Disclosures
• Communications and Stakeholder Engagement
• PMO and Project Controls
• Value Engineering
• Lifecycle Costing
• Asset Management
• Programming and Scheduling
• Constructability Advice

We operate across a range of key sectors, including Infrastructure, Transport, Defence, Energy, Residential, Social Infrastructure, Commercial Property, Resources and Water.

We have a range of capabilities that enable us to work across the whole project life cycle, helping clients work through concept, project requirements and business case development, procurement, and into delivery, operations, and maintenance.

TSA Riley’s difference lies in our independence, global reach and unique depth and breadth of services. We combine this with the connected intelligence of a global team of over 1,000 experts. They bring deeply specialist sector knowledge and hands-on, lived experience to all our projects.

We look forward to partnering with you.

Stantons is a premium provider of governance advisory services, offering the premium consulting services of a ‘Big 4’ organisation, without the ‘Big 4’ price tag.

With offices in three States and Territories, and remote delivery capabilities, we are able to service any client needs in any location.  Specialising in probity advisory/audit, procurement support, internal audit, IT audit, risk management, commercial reviews, tax advice and financial analysis, Stantons can draw on expertise from a multidisciplinary team to provide thorough and integrated support for any task.  

Stantons specialises in providing support to Government clients.  Approximately 95% of the client base and workload for the Governance Advisory Services division consists of Government clients, including Federal, State and Local clients.  We are well versed in the underlying policies supporting procurement by Federal agencies, and operating and providing probity and procurement support within the context of the Commonwealth Procurement Rules.  

Stantons has a proven track record of excellence in all fields of advisory and audit services.  In particular, we hold a successful track record in the probity advisory space, of never having any tender process we have provided probity assurance over be subject to successful legal challenge.  

Natural Capital Economics was formed to bring leading economists, policy, and strategy experts to the market to provide evidence-based advice. Our business is focused on helping our clients understand and resolve complex challenges, especially those relating to the sustainability and resilience of natural capital and built environments in Australia and the Asia-Pacific. 

The scope of our services is broad, and includes water resources and infrastructure, nature repair, agriculture and other primary industries, urban liveability, and other areas relating to land, environmental and natural resource management. 

The breadth of our service offerings has now grown to include policy and strategy in climate change risk, adaptation and mitigation. 

The nature of our work means we invariably work in collaborative, multi-disciplinary teams. In this regard we routinely draw on expertise from our sister companies within the Alluvium group of companies, as well as independent expertise, in disciplines such as engineering, social sciences, markets, ecology and data science. 

Flagstaff Partners is Australia’s pre-eminent independent corporate finance advisory firm, providing high quality corporate finance and strategic advice across a range of disciplines including mergers & acquisitions, divestments & demergers, capital structure & dividend policy, equity capital markets & debt advisory, complex & special situations and Government privatisations.

Heartward Strategic is a trusted pair of hands delivering high quality social research and analysis services across Australia. Heartward collaborates with government, non-government and social organisations to create evidence-driven impact on leading social and policy issues. 

We do this by applying analytic thinking, emotional intelligence and technology to deliver rapid, cost-effective research and make meaning from any kind of information about people – their needs, behaviours and preferences.

We specialise in:

• custom-design and delivery of qualitative, quantitative and hybrid primary research 
• collection, review and reporting on data and submissions from public and stakeholder consultations 
• evidence reviews and examination of secondary data
• advanced analytics, and
• developing strategic frameworks.

Using participatory research approaches and working methods, we are committed to engaging ethically with all participants and contributors, respecting diversity and the value of lived experience.

As an SME, we are nimble and focused, resulting in an outsized effect on the sectors we work in. Independent and purpose-led, Heartward has no conflicts of interest in any work we undertake for government. Our team are credible, engaging presenters and facilitators, and our tailored written reports are relied on at executive and ministerial levels and regularly published.

Established in 2009 Lonergan is a full-service strategic market research agency. We deliver large and small-scale projects, and have in-house capabilities for online surveys, face to face, CATI and mail out. We have a full suite of qualitative services including focus groups, in-depth interviews and senior executive and stakeholder interviews. We have an in-house data science team, and run our own qualitative recruitment services We have specialist expertise amongst vulnerable groups, including First Nations, people living with disability, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, LGBTQIA, people with a lived experience of trauma, younger people and remote Australians. 

We deliver strategic consultancy through combining proven data collection with innovative thinking and leading-edge techniques. We offer great value for money to the government, providing a discount for services and lower fees for large value projects. 

The quality of Lonergan’s work can be confirmed by our longstanding relationships and repeat projects across social housing, privacy, transport, disability, finance, aged care, legal aid, arts and culture, and many others. 

We are ISO20252 (market research) and ISO 27001 (cyber security) accredited, supported by rigorous quality and project management tools. Our senior researchers work on every project, and are members of The Research Society. 

Coras is not just a consultancy; we're a veteran-founded, employee-owned Crew providing cutting-edge advisory services to the public and private sector. We are passionate about business improvement, asset and project management, strategic procurement, regulatory compliance, and governance and assurance. Through the impactful work we do, our trailblazing consultants have developed a strong reputation in Defence and National Intelligence. We are trusted advisors, renowned for the calibre of our people and our track record of quality service delivery.

At the core of our business is an ethos of Thinking New, and the belief that a diversity of perspectives is the key to progress. We bring extensive knowledge, sound processes and, given our humanistic approach, awesome stakeholder management. Beyond their expertise, our team members are individuals of integrity, fostering collaborative relationships with our clients and partners. Our Crew is allergic to average, and is always on the lookout for innovative solutions to deliver real value to our clients.

Our success lies in enabling clients to thrive independently. We're committed to continuous improvement, investing in our team to uphold the highest standards. We offer extensive knowledge, robust and effective processes, and exemplary stakeholder management, all rooted in a deeply human approach. 

CEPA is a global, economic and financial policy consulting business.  Our strength is advising about matters where economics and public policy overlap.
We operate through our offices in Australia and the UK. Our consultants support clients’ complex decision-making by providing robust analysis, which is commercially and politically astute, innovative and frequently relied upon by governments, regulators and the public sector, multinational organisations and private companies of all sizes.

We have worked on more than 1,200 projects to date, with extensive expertise in our core sectors of energy (electricity and natural gas), water, transport (road, rail, airports, airlines), infrastructure, global health, communications, media and payment systems.

We provide a wide range of micro-economic services, including economic regulation of infrastructure and utilities, economic and financial modelling, estimations of the cost of capital, market design, competition economics, infrastructure access regimes and disputes, expert witness work, due diligence, undertaking case studies, behavioural economics, cost appraisals, program and project evaluations, impact assessments, cost-benefit analysis, benchmarking, transaction advisory services and merger analysis.

McKinsey & Company partners with clients to bring deep global expertise and insight; accelerate change management and transformation; and build enduring capabilities. Our services complement—not replace—in-house capability supporting our clients’ complex and pressing needs. We offer independent perspectives and challenge, bring innovation and technical expertise, drawing on global experience, public and private sector know-how, and interdisciplinary teams.

We have operated in Australia for over 60 years, and our dedicated Canberra Office, local partners, and 200 security-cleared colleagues are dedicated to serving the APS. Our people are motivated by the opportunity to make a difference and guided by values that reflect those of the APS.

Our work spans sectors and functions, and we have proudly served on topics such as COVID-19 response, public-service reform, and Defence capability acceleration. We contribute perspectives to economic and business issues critical to the world’s policy leaders through the McKinsey Global Institute.

Commitment to put clients’ interests ahead of our own underpins our mission, with a promise to never compromise on ethics or confidentiality. We always act in the national interest and remain rigorously apolitical. Management consulting is our core business—we do not offer services such as tax, legal, accounting, audit or secondments.

Scyne Advisory are public purpose specialists, focused on helping governments and their agencies build more resilient, secure, equitable and prosperous communities. Scyne Advisory is an Australian owned, independent, contemporary, national business with the scale and capabilities to support public purpose projects and governments at all levels right across Australia.

We provide clients with access to the skills and capabilities to support the delivery of government agendas and public purpose projects. We have a market leading depth of public sector expertise across a range of capabilities including Strategy & Transformation; Finance, Risk & Cyber; Data & Digital; Infrastructure & Property.

We have an ecosystem of experts around Australia with over one thousand people working with our strategic network partners to deliver excellence in supporting public purpose organisations to solve some of our biggest challenges.

Scyne Advisory is a company not a partnership, with a Board and an independent chair. Our governance practices are underpinned by Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) corporate governance principles and public sector code of conduct standards. Our business has robust engagement management processes that ensure our work is aligned with our purpose and vision and is conflict free from the private sector.

The Cultural & Indigenous Research Centre Australia (CIRCA) was established in 2000 and is an industry leader in research & evaluation with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and CALD communities and a specialist in the application of culturally sensitive approaches. We have experience across a range of research and evaluation topics including: Health, Housing, Education, Data privacy and security, Disability, and Aging. We have successfully delivered over 500 projects for 150 clients.

We are a team of academically trained applied social scientists with cultural expertise, so you can trust our analyses and reports will be rigorous, insightful, and culturally nuanced. We work closely with clients to craft research methods and approaches that will meet their needs and that are culturally and linguistically appropriate and safe.

CIRCA is accredited under ISO 20252:2019 for Market, Opinion and Social Research, which means that we follow rigorous standards for how research is conducted, analysed, and reported so that clients can be assured that our research products are trustworthy and high quality. 

CIRCA’s high-quality research, premium customer service, and on-time delivery is what sets us apart, reflected in our high rate of repeat business from many clients.

The Social Research Centre is a leading evidence partner, delivering world-class, ethical and culturally-sound research and evaluation to the Australian Government since 2001. We specialise in social research and evaluation and are trusted with research programs of national significance, including the Quality Indicators of Learning and Teaching and the Australian Early Development Census. We are fully owned by the Australian National University. 

Our services include:

• Survey design – methodology, sampling, questionnaire design and piloting, and cognitive interviewing 
• Survey delivery – large and small through online, telephone and paper modes. We are home to Life in Australia™; Australia’s only randomly recruited online panel
• Qualitative research – in-depth interviewing, online communities, focus groups, and workshops 
• Desktop research – rapid evidence, policy and literature reviews
• Data science and analytics – data visualisation and dashboards, statistical and insights analysis, report publication, and data management; 
• Mixed-methods research – data triangulation integrating multiple sources and data linkage
• Evaluation – formative, summative, process, outcome, impact, performance, and cost-benefit analysis
• Consultancy services, including strategy development, Theory of Change design and developing outcomes frameworks. 

Our areas of expertise include: 

• Health and Wellbeing 
• Attitudes and Values 
• Identity and Belonging 
• Equity and Justice 
• Workforce and Economy 
• Education and Knowledge 
• Policy and Politics 
• Environment and Sustainability. 

KPMG Australia's primary focus is to serve clients based in Australia with a national and regional office footprint. With a strong local presence in Canberra, we are proud to have worked with the Australian Government for almost 30 years, supporting the APS to deliver for the citizens of Australia.

We are values led and committed to integrity, confidentiality and delivering real transfer of knowledge, information, and skills in every engagement for the enduring benefit of the APS.

KPMG brings specialists in financial, corporate, and commercial consulting and advisory as well as being at the forefront of digital solutions, transformations, and modernisation. We support the APS to maximise the benefits that digital innovation and emerging technologies offer. This includes moving to the cloud, leveraging data, optimising cyber security, adapting behaviours, designing for the future and transforming the citizen/business experience.

We have established relationships with Microsoft, ServiceNow, Salesforce, IBM, Appian, Workday, Universities and SME's including Indigenous organisations.

Our people are security cleared at all levels and we hold a Defence Industry Security Program accreditation to handle SECRET. We have invested in ICT systems and secure facilities, so they meet the standards required by Government, and have obtained ISO 90001 Quality Management accreditation.

We’re passionate about changing the world - one workplace at a time.

Puzzle is a veteran-founded, female owned, Australian SME with extensive experience helping organisations strategically transition their spaces and re-imagine how their people work. Over many years, we’ve supported Government at all levels to transform their workplaces into more agile, connected, collaborative environments and enabled people to adopt and embrace new ways of working.  

Our iterative and bespoke approach draws on extensive experience with major change methodologies. We are specialists who identify and help our clients capitalise on the intersection of people, place, process and technology as a catalyst to think and act differently.  

We build an evidence base, blended with research, our deep knowledge, and insights from global best practice to create tailor-made strategies and change journeys for our clients. We help clients define the right challenges to solve, build a compelling vision, and create a plan for how to get there. 
 
We then apply a human-centred approach which considers the degree of change, how it impacts people, how receptive they are, and what’s required to make the change happen.

We’d love to help with your next workplace adventure!

Sustineo is a leading purpose driven professional services consultancy well known for its ethics, integrity, rigour, and client focused delivery. We specialise in high-quality program management, monitoring, evaluation, design, research and stakeholder engagement services in Australia and across the Asia-Pacific region. Having successfully delivered over 170 projects in 17 countries, we have built a strong reputation for excellence with diverse clientele including Australian Government departments and agencies, multilateral banks and donors, non-profits, and commercial firms.

Our business is underpinned by the following capabilities/expertise:

• Expertise evaluating Australian government investments domestically and internationally, including Mid-Term-Reviews and End-of-Program Reviews.
• Specialisation in implementing large research activities domestically and internationally, helping inform program baselines, MERL Frameworks, Program Logic/s, Public Diplomacy and strategic pathways.
• Strong technical experience in climate change, natural resource management, food security, social protection, infrastructure economics, digital economics, education and training, law and justice, private sector development and international development.
• Excellent program management of Australian government funded development programs, including complex regional initiatives in difficult operating environments.

Sustineo’s commitment to delivering high-quality services is demonstrated through our capabilities, successful track record and robust management systems. We are dedicated to making a positive impact through our work, ensuring sustainable development across the Asia-Pacific region.