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Sando Australia Pty Ltd is a 100% Australian-owned and staffed specialist consultancy. Our clients include Federal/State government departments, along with large commercial organisations across Australia, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. We specialise in:

1. Strategic Sourcing: Comprehensive option development and analysis, procurement risk assessment, sourcing strategy and tender creation, end-to-end multi-stage tendering process management (e.g. ITR, EOI, RFx, etc), ‘red team’ reviews and robust evaluation of tender responses.
2. Corporate Negotiations (including Dispute Resolutions): Negotiation of large multi-faceted contractual arrangements that govern the buying and selling of strategic assets and services. We cover the full gambit of operational, commercial, financial, legal, environmental and relational elements that must seamlessly coexist for contemporary B2B contracts to be effective.
3. Vendor Optimisation: Design, implementation and improvement of vendor arrangements and related policies/procedures (e.g. governance, quality assurance, risk management, contract administration, etc).

Sando purposely consists of only a handful of senior professionals - each with extensive qualifications and experience at the Executive level.  This enables us to be a market-leader in our chosen specialist fields and provide truly tailored and pointed advice and services to our clients. We embody the central attributes of honesty, integrity, dedication and diligence in all that we do.

MF & Associates are a consulting firm that specialises in cyber security and management consulting. We believe inclusion, diversity and emotional safety are the heart of our consulting model and value proposition.

The MF & Associates cyber security team is dynamic and knowledgeable, with extensive experience in both the public and private sector. We specialise in assisting organisations achieve business outcomes through practical and pragmatic cyber security strategy, architecture, and governance advice, and in navigating complex risk and compliance challenges. The team includes several former CISOs and ITSA’s, as well as the former AISA Cyber Security Professional of the Year, AWSN Unsung Hero, and former winner of the Women in ICT Defying Gravity Award. 

The MF & Associates Management consulting team specialise in transformation, strategy development, capability health checks, return-to-green interventions and providing interim executive leaders. We use a customised and client-centric approach for each engagement. We understand that clients’ needs can change rapidly, and we respond to this through our flexible model.

Our multidisciplinary teams bring a broad range of subject matter expertise including service design, architecture, business analysis, program and project management, change management as well as deep technical expertise across cyber security and technology development, integration and management. 

Bastion Insights is Australia’s leading mid-sized market and social research consultancy, dedicated to delivering practical insights to guide informed decision-making. Our specialist Social & Government team combines deep industry knowledge with advanced research methodologies to provide robust, evidence driven strategic recommendations. We specialise in comprehensive research and evaluation services tailored to the unique needs of our government clients.

With a proven track record of successful collaborations across various government sectors, we excel in understanding public policies, social issues, and consumer behaviour. Our robust approach integrates proven quantitative and qualitative techniques, ensuring thorough analysis that captures the full spectrum of public opinions, beliefs and behaviours. We pride ourselves on delivering precise, timely, and relevant insights that drive actions to improve policies, programs and government services.

Bastion Insights is committed to the highest standards of integrity, transparency, and ethical research practices. We are ISO certified and leverage cutting-edge technology and innovative methodologies to stay ahead of trends and provide forward-thinking solutions. By partnering with us, government agencies can confidently rely on our expertise to navigate complex challenges, optimise outcomes, and foster community trust. Invite Bastion Insights to tender for your future research project and experience the difference that expert insight can make.

Narada Consulting is a leading Canberra-based firm, proudly Australian-owned, offering top-tier ICT leadership to the Commonwealth government. 

With a strong focus on delivery of ICT outcomes, our team, led by founders Stuart Gibson and Diana Gardner, brings extensive experience from delivery of diverse and demanding projects. We excel in advisory roles and managing complex ICT procurements and transformations, ensuring clients maximise their ICT investments. 

Our mission is to convert technological advancements into real business results, acting as catalysts for success in a dynamic industry. Trust Narada to navigate the evolving ICT landscape with confidence, professionalism, and a track record of developing and delivering on Commonwealth Government strategic goals.

Narada’s focus areas:

• ICT Transformation Strategy 
• Program Delivery
• ICT Sourcing Strategy & Procurement Management
• Commercial Negotiation 
• Capability Transformation
• Public Cloud Services
• DevOps Support and Development Approaches
• Consulting and Advisory Services

elevenM is a specialist consulting firm helping you mitigate digital risks and build trust, with our service offerings across cyber security, privacy, AI and data governance, strategic communications, awareness and training. Our mission is to build trust in the online world. 

With Australian organisations collecting, handling and storing more data than ever before, and uses digital technologies in more innovative ways than ever before, managing data and the information environment is now a significant challenge. This challenge crosses the increasing community and regulatory expectations in privacy, the rapidly evolving threat landscape in cyber, and the increasing data holding associated with the digital economy.

Adding to that, artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies are taking businesses by storm. But making the most of these technologies requires a structured and rigorous approach to understanding and mitigating their risks.

Our team spans and closes these gaps, bringing together Australia’s leading (and multi-disciplinary) cyber security, privacy, and information, data and AI governance experts, to ensure your digital challenges and data risks are considered holistically, with an expert view across the entire field. 

As well as breadth of experience in the industry, the elevenM team brings extensive experience across both the public and private sectors. 

Our focus is helping deliver better public outcomes through the public and private sectors, and the juncture of the two. From people to performance, systems to design, culture to operations, we offer a unique blend of strategy meeting execution.

Our business is integrating your domain expertise with specialist skills in achieving and sustaining strategic change so that you get the outcomes you want. We bring an integrated set of skills in strategic change, program and project management, leadership and execution. Our consulting approach is to work collaboratively alongside your team to form a strong partnership, delivering meaningful change through integrated teams.

Where it makes sense, we couple our consulting approach with our breakthrough training programs to uplift your capability in strategic thinking and problem solving, implementing change, procurement, and communicating with influence.

The expertise and guidance you get from Kiah will be pragmatic, insightful, and implementable. Our clients get extraordinary value from engaging us because our highly skilled consultants bring masterful consulting acumen coupled with public and private sector expertise.

There are common factors in how we work with our clients—and you will always find us bringing our collaborative and human-centred approach to the execution of strategic change.

Macquarie Capital is an operating group within Macquarie Group, which is headquartered in Australia.

Macquarie Capital is a financial advisor, investor and developer working across 32 locations in 23 markets.

Macquarie Capital also partners with governments, businesses, and startups to connect ideas to capital and help drive innovation, growth and create real-world impact.

Macquarie Capital advises and invests alongside our clients and partners in a range of sectors.

Macquarie Capital provides a full suite of advisory, investing, development, capital raising and equities capabilities including mergers and acquisitions advisory services, principal investing and lending, Debt Capital Markets, Equity Capital Markets and Private Capital Markets advisory as well as Equity brokerage.  

In FY24, Macquarie Capital advised on 290 transactions worth more than A$332bn and provided principal investment worth A$82bn across more than 1,150 deals.
Macquarie Capital was the leading M&A advisor across ANZ in FY24 (by deal count) and is No.1 Global Financial Adviser in Energy Transition. 

At Lower Capital, we don't just understand the challenges facing governments today - we've lived them. Our team, with extensive experience across all levels of government, including the United Nations, brings unique insight into governing in a rapidly evolving global environment.

Our expertise spans climate and corporate governance, sustainable infrastructure, and strategy and risk advisory. We offer comprehensive services, including policy and program design, strategic planning, governance performance evaluation, risk framework design and review, climate risk mitigation, green infrastructure planning, materiality assessment, and sustainability metrics design and disclosure.

With decades of experience in high-risk, capital-intensive, and heavily regulated environments, we're uniquely positioned to help you achieve your policy goals, make better informed decisions, and create lasting impact.

Whether you're designing new strategies, enhancing your governance arrangements, or seeking greater impact in your policies and initiatives, we invite you to consider Lower Capital in your next Request for Quotation.

The Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) is Australia's leading behavioural science consultancy, helping all levels of government, the private sector and philanthropies tackle their biggest social challenges. We work in partnership with you to create better systems, policies, products and services to deliver meaningful and scalable social impact. Through our evidence-based understanding of human behaviour, we apply behavioural insights to drive positive change and help people, communities and organisations thrive. Our work is anchored in scientific rigour, robust research methodologies, and innovative approaches and tools. We also help you uplift your teams and build the skills and knowledge to harness the power of behavioural science.

We offer:

• Research services
• Behavioural diagnosis and intervention design
• Testing and evaluation
• Capability building

We have delivered over 1,200 projects globally, including 700+ randomised controlled trials (RCTs). Our work spans a wide range of policies, issues and challenges including labour & employment, gender equality, health & wellbeing, education, justice, consumer behaviours, energy & sustainability, and many more.

Our expert Australian team leverages an international network of over 200 advisors skilled in behavioural science, behavioural economics, psychology, quantitative and qualitative research, design and system thinking, human-centered design and co-design.

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.

Grant Thornton is one of the world's leading independent accounting and consulting firms. With an Australian workforce of 1,500 people and a global network of over 65,000 operating in 150 markets, our unique corporate structure is built on transparency, integrity and accountability.

As a full-service professional services firm, we help Public Sector organisations fulfill their commitment to delivering positive outcomes through Audit & Assurance, Financial Advisory, Tax and Consulting Services.

Specifically, within our Consulting division, we support clients in Strategy Implementation, Operating Model Design, Data & Digital, Program and Project Delivery, Change Management, Performance Improvement and Supply Chain Optimisation. We also provide services in Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) Uplift, Internal Audit, Regulatory & Payroll Compliance, Controls Assurance, Cyber Resilience, Financial Crime and Forensic Investigations.

We work with Public Sector entities at local, state and federal levels and regularly leverage our global team for insights into world's best practice. Our approach is focused on building client capability through knowledge transfer and the training and development of client teams.

Our brand promise of "Reach for Remarkable" is our aspiration and our values are based on Collaboration, Authenticity, Responsibility and Excellence.

Frontier Economics specialises in applying microeconomics to real life problems.

We ensure that our work is accessible to our clients and the advice we provide is practical and suited to the conditions in which our clients operate. 
We specialise applying our economics to a number of sectors:

• energy, including electricity, gas and renewables
• environment, including scheme design, project assessments
• transport including rail, road, sea, air, including airports, ports, and public and private transport, ride sharing and autonomous mobility services
• urban and rural water
• urban economics and congestion management
• telecommunications, media and social platforms
• education 
• pharmaceuticals industry
• music and entertainment 
• government economic policy, including for local, State and Federal

We apply a wide range of economics to these sectors including:

• economics of regulation
• cost-benefit analysis (project/scheme assessments)
• market design and industry reform to improve economic performance, including implementation of changes
• transaction support to buyers and sellers
• litigation support, as expert witnesses and general economics advice to lawyers and industry 
• transfer pricing 
• development of advanced quantitative model for industry analysis, litigation, mergers and acquisitions and transactions

The Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society (SchoPES) and the Canberra Business School at the University of Canberra have provided consulting and research services in financial and economic analysis for 30 years. The former has taken over the staffing from the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling, which was recognised as a national leader in applied economic research and analysis.

The staff have extensive experience in analysing and modelling policy relevant issues in business, economics, and finance with state-of-art econometrics and data analysis techniques including microsimulation. Importantly many also have extensive practical experience working in and/or with the public service. Some also teach public servants through the graduate certificates programme.

The SchoPES academics are interdisciplinary; while the majority are economists there are also sociologists, political scientists and experts in international relations and national security. This equips them with capacities for tackling issues from multiple perspectives.

They have also been involved in many projects with state, territory and federal governments, private clients and NGO’s. Examples include modelling higher education fees and grants; economic advice on moving from stamp duty to rates; costing of election promises; advice on electric vehicle policy; and the role of child support.

Griffin Legal (GL)’s advisory government team are leaders in privacy, probity and procurement and policy development and analysis. 

GL are a Canberra based, nationally operating small-to-medium enterprise and are 100% female owned. 

GL have significant experience advising Commonwealth Government Departments in relation to their privacy obligations and practices under the Privacy Act. We have conducted numerous Privacy Impact Assessments and provided complex privacy advice for various Departments. GL personnel are considered experts in privacy and data security and are routinely engaged for our privacy expertise. This experience allows us to be a trusted advisor with a thorough and working knowledge of the complexities faced by the Commonwealth.

GL are well versed in the Commonwealth policies and legislation. Our team provide comprehensive and practical advice, including managing conflicts of interest, as part of delivering our probity and procurement services. GL has developed key documents which we regularly use when engaged to provide probity advisory services for our numerous government clients, including briefing packs, probity plans, probity registers, evaluation plans and communication plans. 

GL are passionate about building capacity and leaving tangible benefits, such as templates and advice, for our clients to use again after our engagement ends. 

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. 

Our consultancy delivers meaningful change. With over 25 years of experience delivering outcomes for Commonwealth, state and local governments,  Communication Link is here to support you in achieving remarkable outcomes.

At Communication Link, we appreciate the power of effective communication and stakeholder engagement. We will work closely with you to create positive change, both internally and externally, and help you navigate complex matters.

Our team of experienced consultants is dedicated to delivering meaningful outcomes working at a strategic and on-the-ground level.  With strong logistical management and problem-solving skills, we will ensure that your project runs smoothly from start to finish.  Our focus on data-driven solutions and effective reporting will provide you with the insights you need to make informed decisions.

What truly sets us apart is our dedication to customer service. We build strong relationships, share learnings to build agency capability and tailor our approach to your needs. Our team is not only qualified and experienced but also creative, friendly, and professional.  

Whether you need assistance with community engagement, strategic communication, change management or leadership training, Communication Link has the expertise and resources to support you. Contact us today and discover how we can help you achieve your goals.

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.

Ninti One is a First Nations-owned management advisory company, registered with Supply Nation that has been operating since 2003. We are one of Australia’s biggest First Nations consulting companies, having managed over 300 projects on behalf of the Commonwealth Government, to a value of $300M. 

Our vision is to build opportunities with and for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples through research, innovation and engagement. Our services include:

Management Advisory - With deep understanding of First Nations social development in urban, rural and remote locations, we provide tailored advisory services to clients in Australia and internationally.

Stakeholder and Community Engagement - With direct links to community networks, we provide facilitation services to deliver services in complex settings.

Participatory Evaluation - We work with clients to develop culturally appropriate evaluation approaches and tools, applying a cultural lens to the interpretation of results.

Research and Data Collection - We undertake ethical research and data collection with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and communities.

Training - We are a Registered Training Organisation (RTO) that delivers on-site work-based training in remote and regional communities across Australia.

Partner with us to drive impactful change and enhance service delivery for First Nations communities.

Clyde & Co provides end to end market leading privacy, cyber and information risk focussed services advising clients on legislation, obligations and implementation strategy locally and across borders, including:

• Privacy, cyber and data protection services, privacy impact assessments (PIAs), reviews/audits of privacy compliance, preparation and uplift of policies, training, exemptions apply and use of those exemptions, sensitive information and/or biometric information projects
• Strategies for maximising use/secondary use of personal information, digital transformation and AI
• Mandatory data breach notification
• Data breaches and cyber incident response, data discovery and analysis, liaising with the Privacy Commissioner and resolving incident request or disputes
• Interpreting and implementing the Australian Government Agencies Privacy Code
• Data sharing and Big Data analytics program
• Privacy developments and non-Australian privacy and cyber requirements, such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the UK equivalent
• Data, document, records, personal information rationalisation and retention/deletion obligations and practical implementation
• Commonwealth records/archives legislation
• Surveillance laws and security requirements
• Freedom of information (FOI) 
• Profiling and automated decision-making 
• De-identification frameworks including for AI training purposes
• Data governance and digital resilience frameworks

As lawyers we provide legal advice (not just consultant recommendations) ensuring solutions/recommendations fulfil your legal obligations.  Our advice can be provided under legal professional privilege.

ChatHouse is a boutique qualitative and social research agency, providing insightful, quality research. Our team has had decades of experience conducting high-quality research for both government and commercial clients.

Regardless of the research technique applied, our goal remains the same, to get below the surface of our subject and beyond the purely rational, thereby enabling us to deliver tactical, strategic and above all, actionable insights.

What makes us unique?

Senior-only research agency: Good research comes from experienced, intelligent and insightful researchers. ChatHouse clients know they will only have senior researchers on their jobs from start to finish.

Qualitative specialists: We are purists so you will never have a ‘quantie’ running groups or a ‘qualie’ analysing data. Rather we have a strong partnership with a leading Quantitative agency that allows us to offer integrated qual – quant studies.

Need-based research offering: Our approach is entirely brief-led, resulting in personalised services that focus on the individual needs of each client.

Areas of expertise

• Exploratory 
• Attitudinal and Behaviour Change 
• Product and Brand development 
• Communications

We have board experience working with government clients, including ATO, ASIC, Health, Employment and Workplace Relations, Defence, Education, Office of Responsible Gambling, and the Cancer Institute, among others.

Galpins are a strong firm of 50+ staff. With our Lead Partner initially trained in Performance Audit at the Australian National Audit Office and with subsequent consulting experience in Canberra, our team have an exceptional track record. Our work spans internal audit and assurance, governance, strategy and improvement, compliance and fraud. We’d love to work with you and show you that smaller can be better – we are qualified, skilled, directly available to you and provide a value for money service. Key examples –

• extensive internal audit- eg procurement, grants, financial controls, legislative compliance, asset management, sub-contractors, program/project reviews, debtor management , staff management (eg payroll, workforce planning)
• compliance/fraud reviews (on behalf of SA ICAC, reviews of governance relationships within councils, extensive reviews of procurement/adequacy of provider processes)
• business strategy, performance and improvement - service and performance reviews, including process mapping with an eye for a pragmatic balance of control and efficiency, development of strategies for clients (eg procurement strategy), strategic analysis and plans, service design. 

We also work with a variety of clients (predominantly within SA) across fields – education, primary industry, environment, regulation (eg essential services), local government, arts.

We’d love to work with you, please reach out!

Inform Economics specialises in cost-benefit analysis, development of business cases, and economic evaluation. 

We are dedicated to providing evidence-based insights that help guide strategic decision-making and optimise the use of resources. In addition to our core services, we help organisations build internal capacity in these technical areas through tailored training and support.

With a proven track record working with Commonwealth and state government agencies, we have extensive expertise delivering results across a variety of sectors, including:

• Agriculture

• Arts and Culture

• Disability Services

• Education and Training

• Emergency Management (Fire, Floods)

• Environment

• Government Advertising

• Government Services

• Healthcare

• Human Services 

• Infrastructure

• Responsible Gambling

• Social Housing

• Technology and Innovation

• Transport

• Tourism & Events

• Workplace Safety

As a Small to Medium Enterprise (SME) under the Commonwealth Procurement Rules, we align with the Australian Government's commitment to increasing procurement from SMEs.

The Equality Institute is a global research and creative agency working to advance gender equality and prevent violence against women and girls. We are unique in our ability to combine world-class research with creative communications. This allows us to promote an evidence-based approach, communicate effectively with diverse audiences, and translate complex research and ideas into products that drive real impact.

Ending VAWG requires building the evidence base, supporting uptake of innovative models and methodologies, and ongoing critical reflection and learning. We design and deliver rigorous, safe, and ethical research on sensitive topics related to gender, social norms and VAWG across the globe. We use a range of methodologies, including feminist-informed, participatory action research, ethnographic, quantitative, and qualitative methods, to build evidence and provide useful recommendations to inform policy and programming.

Our research team brings decades of technical expertise in developing and implementing innovative, large-scale monitoring and evaluation frameworks that promote ongoing learning and programme improvement; contribute to the development of international indicators on VAWG; and create national and regional strategies and tools for population-level monitoring. Our team members have led and designed several highly technical and impactful evaluation pieces around the world. 

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. 

Established in 2005, our 20-year-old veteran-owned SME prides itself on agility and quick mobilisation, with teams located throughout Australia to support defence, government, national security, and purpose-driven organisations. We are dedicated to excellence, integrity, and enhancing processes for the benefit of all Australians.

• We provide strategic business advice, leadership, governance, and business analysis so that clients can confidently navigate complexities, make informed decisions, and achieve their business goals with clarity and purpose.
• We specialise in organisational restructure, workforce planning, culture change, and change management to help clients streamline operations, optimise resources, and drive sustainable growth.
• We excel in program and project delivery so the client can execute initiatives efficiently, minimise risks, and achieve your objectives on time and within budget.
• We offer enterprise protective security solutions so the client can safeguard their assets, mitigate security threats, and maintain business continuity with confidence.

At Providence, we excel in transforming complex challenges into actionable solutions, leveraging our diverse experience to maintain high standards across all sectors. We partner with clients to assess in-house capabilities, ensuring our expertise maximises their investments and delivers impactful results. With Providence, the promise is that clients are not just customers – they are valued partners.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Health Q is a specialist consulting company delivering national projects since 2019, across the disability, NDIS, health care and human services sectors. Our team has ‘real-world’ experience working not only as consultants but also holding senior and executive positions guiding strategy and service delivery.

Health Q has particular expertise in program and project evaluation, reviews and outcome measurement. As evaluators, we pride ourselves on balancing robust evaluation design and tailored methodological approaches with key interpersonal skills of active listening, empathy, collaboration, and partnership. We believe that a team that listens, facilitates reflection, and progresses coordinated and frequent opportunities for learning will enrich and enhance evaluation outcomes. Our relational approach ensures stakeholders are engaged meaningfully in the evaluation process, with diverse stakeholder needs sensitively managed to achieve the project objectives.

In addition, we have expertise in respect to business case development, business models, organisational governance, strategic planning, qualitative and quantitative research, stakeholder consultation and service mapping.  

We co-create innovative, practical and sustainable solutions. Empathy, compassion and respect are fundamental to what we do, as well as commercial and strategic thinking.

Leadenhall was established in 1982 and is a leading Australian independent advisory firm specialising in the valuation of businesses, intangible assets, debt and complex financial instruments (options, convertible notes etc.). We have a national team of 20 people and access to a network of international experts.

We are a group of highly experienced valuation professionals, many with ‘big 4’ corporate finance and valuations experience. Our approach is transparent and responsive, with a commercial mindset. Through our extensive technical and commercial experience, and our industry knowledge, we offer clients high quality valuation advice to support decisions and assist in satisfying regulatory and compliance obligations.

You can be assured that you’ll get a valuation report that everyone can understand, and that is able to withstand the most robust scrutiny. You’ll get a transparent assessment of the value of the business that’s clearly communicated and explained.

Trust the team of experts that others trust. We provide valuation courses for Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand, we’re a member of the ASIC Panel of Independent Experts and the Australian representative of the Valuation Research Group.

WELCOME TO THE DYNAMIC WORLD OF VUCA

Solving your governance and leadership challenges.

VUCA Trusted Advisors is a bespoke advisory team, with deep expertise in governance. We have strong experience working with government agencies, providing tailored and cost-effective advice. We understand the pressures and challenges to assist Boards and Executives to navigate these to achieve continuous improvement and success.

We help our clients solve problems, improve governance and create confidence. VUCA Directors and Associates are a group of experienced thought leaders who share our passion to build and optimise individual and organisational excellence, to help our clients succeed.

GOVERNANCE | STRATEGY | SEARCH | LEADERSHIP

VUCA Expertise

• Board Governance Review
• CEO Performance Review
• Board Governance Framework
• Board Skills Analysis
• Workshop Facilitation
• Executive Search
• First Nations governance and strategy

In the spirit of reconciliation, VUCA Trusted Advisors acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their Elders past, present and emerging, and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Sapere Research Group is an expert consulting firm that has been providing analysis and advice across government and industry since 1997. Our core values are independence, integrity and objectivity.

Through strategic insights, tailored methodologies and a collaborative working style, we help our clients navigate complex issues. We specialise in clear, evidence-based analysis and advice with real-world application, informed by strong understanding of policy, sector and organisational context.

Sapere regularly supports Commonwealth departments and agencies, and those of other jurisdictions, to shape and improve policy, programs and services. We are known for working closely with officials on sensitive issues in a collaborative and trusted manner.

With a quality focus, Sapere utilises more senior personnel than is usual in other firms. We stake our professional reputations on the analysis and advice we develop. We also value formal and informal opportunities to share knowledge and upskill officials.

With over 70 experienced consultants, Sapere's expertise spans policy, economics, finance, regulation, program/project development, governance, and public management. Our sector knowledge includes environment, water, agriculture, biosecurity, infrastructure, transport, telecommunications, defence, small business, innovation, science, technology, energy, climate change, health, education, skills and training, employment, local government, regional development, media, sport, heritage and creative industries, amongst others.

ACER is one of the world’s leading independent educational research centres. As a not-for-profit organisation, our mission is to create and promote research-based knowledge, products and services that can be used to improve learning across the lifespan. We have a strong reputation as a provider of reliable support and expertise to education policymakers and professional practitioners for 90 years. 

ACER staff have nationally and internationally recognised education research experience and expertise. Our researchers have led the design and implementation of qualitative, quantitative and mixed-methods approaches to answer education research and policy questions. ACER is regularly commissioned to evaluate national and international education programs, including whole systems and elements such as curricula and large-scale learning assessments. Our researchers are frequently invited to address conferences, join expert advisory panels and comment publicly on education issues.

ACER consistently produces high-quality research reports, presentations and visualisations for diverse audiences and stakeholder groups. We pride ourselves on delivering high-quality projects on time and within budget.

Procurement Co is a 100% Australian owned specialist consultancy providing probity, procurement, transaction management and contract management services to Government and private enterprise. We maintain offices in Brisbane, Sydney, and Melbourne allowing us to service our clients across Australia. Since our incorporation in 2013 we have delivered services to a range of government agencies and private clients across a broad range of industries and sectors.

Our team of 40+ have extensive experience in probity and procurement across many industries and this experience demonstrates a keen understanding of both compliance and commercial delivery objectives for our clients.

Engaging with Procurement Co, offers several advantages: 

• Procurement Co is a specialist procurement / probity firm with no other service streams to ensure no potential conflicts in the effective delivery of services / advice.
• 100% Australian owned and operated;
• A Small to Medium Enterprise (SME);
• Gender diversity ratio of 51% female employees;
• A successful graduate program, offering employment to new entrants into Australia’s professional workforce;
• Supply chain focusing on engaging local SMEs for services such as accounting, ICT, marketing, legal services; and
• Provide social benefits via pro bono procurement and probity support to non-for-profit and community organisations.

Marsh Advisory is the risk consulting and analytics division of Marsh McLennan, one of the world’s largest firms specialising in risk, strategy, and human capital. In Australia, Marsh Advisory boasts over 200 experts in fields including Enterprise Risk Management, Business Resilience, Workplace Health and Safety, Natural Catastrophe, Climate Change, Property Risk Management, Asset Valuation, Actuarial Analysis, Risk Financing, and Cyber Security.

Annually, Marsh McLennan successfully executes over 500 consulting projects in the Australian public sector, renowned for our independence, government expertise, and tailored, practical solutions.

Conscia Pty Ltd is an Australian-owned SME management consulting business able to provide a wide range of services. We are headquartered in Canberra and have offices in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. We have successfully delivered projects for many Australian Government agencies. The majority of Conscia’s staff have worked within or for public sector agencies, providing us an in-depth understanding of the priorities, pressures and processes that drive the public sector.

Conscia prides itself on providing well-reasoned, independent advice underpinned by technical qualifications and extensive experience in both the public and private sectors and supplemented by the expertise available via our network of partner companies.

We are invested in our clients’ long-term success. In the case of the APS, this includes formal knowledge/skills transfer arrangements with an emphasis on ensuring the smooth transition of our work onto its APS custodians, so that enduring benefits can be realised.  

Conscia is a member of the Defence Industry Security Program (DISP), with staff holding clearances up to and including Positive Vetting.  We are strategic in choosing who we work with so as to minimise any potential conflict of interest. We represent a low-risk, high-value option for Australian Government agencies to supplement their core workforce. 

Risk management

We understand the different aspects of risk facing governments, including enterprise and regulatory risk. We have designed tailored risk management frameworks in both contexts and developed policies, procedures and training materials to implement them.

Services: Development and implementation of risk management frameworks, including risk governance arrangements, risk registers and risk assessment workshops.

Regulation

We have extensive experience in regulation, statutory interpretation and administrative law across Commonwealth, State and local government regulatory regimes. We have advised on various regulatory projects, including development and implementation of regulatory strategies and evaluation of regulatory regimes and reform options.

Services: Design, implementation, evaluation and reform of regulatory frameworks, advice and guidance about compliance & enforcement strategies, complex regulatory advice.

Governance & performance

We have undertaken reviews of governance and accountability frameworks and advised on mechanisms to address gaps and inadequacies. We have also developed performance monitoring and evaluation frameworks and assisted with implementation.

Services: Development and implementation of governance frameworks and performance monitoring and evaluation frameworks.

Strategic Development Group delivers high-calibre technical advisory and management services with core capabilities in Community and Stakeholder Consultation, Program Design, Program Management and Monitoring Evaluation and Learning. We are known for our collaborative approach and ability to rapidly mobilise high-quality multidisciplinary teams built to meet the specific needs of clients.

We deliver our core services across all sectors in Australia and internationally. Our current project portfolio includes; cyber and digital resilience, gender equality, disability rights and equity, infrastructure, health, aged care, cooperatives, diplomacy, education and training, climate action, renewable energy, economic cooperation, environment, humanitarian programming, justice, property development and fisheries. In addition, our team includes leading specialists in disability rights and equity, gender and social inclusion, climate and renewable energy, cooperatives, and organisational governance. 

Strategic is a female-led SME with offices in regional Australia and consultants worldwide. We are driven by our values of humility, integrity and ambition, and a commitment to positive development.  

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.

Australian Catholic University (ACU) is a public university with a national presence. With seven campuses across the country, we offer access to specialist researchers in more jurisdictions than any other university. We deliver high-quality, impactful research in areas such as:

• Education and teacher workforce studies
• Nursing and public health
• Psychology and cognitive sciences
• Allied health and the care economy
• Human metabolic functioning and disease
• Nutrition and dietetics
• Healthy ageing
• Human movement and sports science
• Digital healthcare
• Veteran wellbeing
• Business, management and IT
• Political science
• Sociology
• Law and human rights

ACU’s expertise is strengthened by strategic investments in research infrastructure. Examples include opening the only Human Metabolic Chamber in the southern hemisphere, and our cutting-edge facilities at the Blacktown Exercise Sports Technology Hub (BEST) at Sydney’s International Sports Park.

ACU excels in interdisciplinary research, bringing together diverse teams to tackle complex challenges. Ranked in the top 2% of universities globally, our research is recognized as world-leading by independent assessors (QS World University Rankings by Subject 2024; Shanghai Ranking, Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2023), particularly in our priority areas. ACU can support government objectives by providing targeted, objective, rigorous, evidence-backed research to ensure programs are effective and policy goals achieved.

The Parenting Research Centre (PRC) (www.parentingrc.org.au) is an independent, non-profit organisation that helps children thrive by advising on new and better ways to support families in their parenting. 

We have 25 years of experience in the fields of early childhood, health, education, disability, and welfare putting the best evidence on parenting and family support into action. As a trusted leader in knowledge and practice expertise related to parenting, we are engaged by government and non-government agencies to create new knowledge and support development of services, resources, and policy. 

The PRC provides agencies with end-to-end design, adaptation, implementation, research, and evaluation of policies, programs, and practice including policy, practice advice and governance solutions.

We have a strong history in effective collaboration and partnering including our world class partnership with the Centre for Community Child Health, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute with whom we operate the Raising Children Network. Since 2006, the Raising Children Network has provided independent, trusted, and engaging support for parents, carers, kin and professionals across Australia and internationally. The Raising Children Network is frequently called on by the Australian Government to lend its expertise to effectively communicate with mass parent audiences. Its website www.raisingchildren.net.au receives 115,000+ visits per day.

Boston Consulting Group (BCG) is a global management consulting firm with 30,000 staff across 50+ countries, and 100+ offices including Canberra. Our purpose is to unlock the potential in those who advance the world.

Our Public Sector Practice brings extensive experience across all portfolios. Our functional capabilities span all areas of strategy, people and organisation, operations, technology and digital; and BCG X, our specialist digital, analytics and AI design and build unit.

We partner with departments and agencies to drive sustainable transformational change, leveraging expertise and tools from across industries and a round the world, to deliver public impact and value.

Example services include:

• Strategic reviews and plans for major reforms
• Digital, AI, and technology strategies
• Design, building, and deploying digital and AI solutions
• Organisation and operating model design
• Commercial, financial, and economic analysis
• Business cases
• Enterprise transformation and strategic program management

Clients turn to BCG for end-to-end solutions, strategic thinking, data-driven advice, and rigorous implementation support. We are known for our co-design and collaborative working style, knowledge transfer and capability building. Our core values align with public service values, and we are committed to industry-leading standards of integrity and ethical behaviour.

The Academy of the Humanities is an independent, not-for-profit organisation which maintains a Fellowship of over 730 humanities leaders. The Academy routinely provides humanities expertise and advice on complex national and international matters at public, institutional and government levels - working both independently and as part of specially-convened multidisciplinary teams. Examples of recently authored reports include Australia’s China Knowledge Capability (2023) and Future Humanities Workforce (2023). Examples of recent reports where the Academy was a convening and/or contributing author include: the Rapid Research Report, Generative AI (for National Science and Technology Committee) (2023) and Ensuring Occupations are Responsive to People with Disability (for DSS) (2022).

You can access an extended list of of our publicly available research reports and activity via Our work – Australian Academy of the Humanities.

BDO is a trusted adviser to government and public sector entities looking for Audit, Tax and Advisory services. We’re appointed to several panel arrangements at the Local, State and Federal level.

BDO has significant experience supporting government agencies, statutory bodies, and government-owned corporations across the following service areas.

• Financial management services, including CFO services, finance function transformation, financial management advisory for infrastructure and major projects, establishment of infrastructure and special purpose vehicles, services to sovereign wealth funds, finance function advisory and technical accounting, and specialist transaction advice
• Advisory services for strategy and transformation, digital and technology, information technology risk and project assurance, contract assurance, and data analytics and insights
• People advisory services for workforce planning and governance, process and performance improvement, and outsourcing services
• Risk advisory services, including cyber security services and forensic services
• Project and infrastructure advisory services, such as financial viability assessments, economics for infrastructure services, and business case development
• Sustainability services, including ESG reporting and compliance
• Audit services, including audit readiness and technical accounting
• Taxation services, including tax equivalents regime, fringe benefits tax, goods and services tax, State taxes (duties, payroll tax, land tax), fuel tax credits, superannuation and customs duty.

Biointelect is a premier life-science accelerator consultancy and CRO, uniquely positioned to support Australian government entities in their healthcare innovation initiatives. With unparalleled expertise from early-phase research to market launch, we provide strategic advice and technical support that drive successful outcomes.

Our extensive experience includes strategic business case development, ecosystem mapping, policy review, and public health leadership. We have a proven track record, executing over 450 projects across diverse disease areas and product types for more than 160 clients worldwide.

Biointelect 360degree view of the healthcare ecosystems from preclinical, clinical trial capabilities, through to commercialisation highlights our ability to navigate complex regulatory, market access, and policy landscapes.

As trusted advisers, we empower public agencies to embark on major infrastructure projects and policy reforms that enhance health outcomes for all Australians with proven impactful results. Our deep understanding of the healthcare innovation ecosystem and strategic planning positions us as ideal partners to support your goals.

Join us in advancing Australia's healthcare landscape. Partner with Biointelect to leverage our expertise and achieve groundbreaking success in your healthcare projects. Together, we can create a healthier future for Australia.

Neoteric Consulting is a boutique SME that brings together professionals with extensive knowledge and experience delivering public sector financial strategy, management and transformation services.

Our capabilities and areas of expertise include:

• Transformation and reform: focusing on corporate strategy development, business process optimisation and performance measurement.
• Financial sustainability: covering strategy and options, financial sustainability review, internal and external budget management, financial policy and framework development.
• Costing and financial analysis: including costing and pricing services, financial model development, cost assurance, benchmarking and dashboard creation.
• Financial systems support: spanning ERP implementation and enhancement, ongoing support and maintenance, continuous improvement framework design, data security and compliance management.
• Financial management advisory: providing expertise in management accounting and business partnering, finance process improvement and capability uplift, capital budgeting strategic asset management planning, financial reporting and technical accounting advice.
• Supply chain and procurement: including Procure-to-Pay (P2P) strategy and operating model design, procurement and contract administration, value for money (VFM) assessment, supply chain optimisation and strategic sourcing.

Bringing together Neoteric thinking, contemporary applications and in-depth analysis we strive to deliver innovative and fit for purpose solutions, providing our clients with value and ensuring they always remain ahead of ever-changing demands. 
 

FTI Consulting is a trusted multidisciplinary advisory firm that provides critical insight and expert testimony in legal and regulatory proceedings, public policy debates and strategic decision-making.

Our core services and capabilities include fraud and misconduct investigations, policy development and analysis, regulatory review, policy and program evaluation, forensic accountancy audits, privacy advice and assurance, valuations, and strategic and commercial advice.

Our diverse team of professionals includes economists, policy analysts, forensic accountants and investigators, former regulators, financial analysts, lawyers, journalists, and technology experts. Our team has decades of experience working in and for government, regulators, and public service entities across a range of jurisdictions, advising on some of the nation’s most significant and contentious issues. FTI Consulting is independent and uniquely positioned to provide impartial advice and assistance.

Fiftyfive5 evolved out of a desire to see investment in research deliver insights that drive social impact for clients and community. We leverage proven processes and expertise to inspire action, create value and enhance society through 3 key service offerings:

• Citizen centred design: Policy, program, service and experience design
• Behaviour change: Communications development; behavioural science
• Performance measurement: Brand/communications tracking; customer experience; program evaluation

Fiftyfive5 has grown to become Australia’s largest and most awarded market and social research consultancy with the industry's most highly skilled talent. We’ve done this by:

• Defining the real question: Attaining total clarity on the problem that needs to be solved. Being clearer still on why we’re solving it.
• Leveraging multi-source data: Utilising qualitative, quantitative, cultural insights, secondary or administrative data depending on client need.
• A deep understanding of people: Identifying the why behind the what, the human behind the data and the levers that can cut through and inspire change.
• To create paths that land inside organisations: So our clients can see the 'so what’, feel the potential, and are inspired to own the way forward.

Awarded ‘Research Agency of the Year’ by B&T 2021-2023 and ‘Research Organisation of the Year’ by The Research Society 2020-2022.

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.

The ability to negotiate is a critical skill not just for external negotiations, but also for challenging internal negotiations.

Recent Parliamentary Audits have identified systemic shortcomings in negotiation and procurement practices across a range of Government Departments.  Skilful negotiation is key to delivering efficient procurement and effective contract management.  Too often, government delivers poor outcomes because commercially inexperienced public servants are left to deliver important negotiations, having had no training in negotiation skills.  They face commercially astute and highly skilled corporate negotiators with predictable outcomes.

Negotiation Partners is a team of negotiation specialists.  Our clients trust us:

1. to train senior negotiators to deliver outstanding, sustainable outcomes
2. to assist teams to prepare for challenging negotiations, and if necessary
3. to negotiate agreements on their behalf

We work across all industries including healthcare, defence, logistics, infrastructure and banking.  We have delivered outcomes for Employment and Defence Dept’s, as well as state procurement teams in NSW, VIC and QLD.

We help our clients to reduce risk, to achieve more, and to deliver faster outcomes through more effective negotiation. That’s our promise.

Abt Global’s mission is to improve the quality of life and economic wellbeing of people worldwide. Equity is the cornerstone of our work.

In Australia we have been successfully operating for over 20 years as leaders in research and evaluation, strategy and advisory, policy development and analysis, and program design, implementation and/or delivery support. 

Our team includes researchers, evaluators, statisticians, epidemiologists, demographers, public health experts, advisers on equity and inclusion, economists, governance experts and more. We work across a range of sectors including health, education, environment and finance/economics.

Our two primary areas of practice are Australian domestic and international development with a focus on the Indo-Pacific region. In the Australian market we work for a range of Commonwealth Government Departments including Departments of Health and Aged Care, Social Services and Veterans Affairs. Additionally, we consult to State and Territory governments. Abt is a top tier supplier to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

We routinely partner with Indigenous organisations to deliver our First Nations work in Australia, focused on health, social and emotional wellbeing and the protection and safety of women and their children. Additionally, we have Indigenous partners on a range of our Pacific consultancies including PNG Women in Leadership.
 

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.