The PDSS presented in this report have the same data format that was presented in the previous 2007-08 DMO MPR and endorsed by the JCPAA.
The DMO and the ANAO have signed an arrangement under sub-section 20(l)(c) of the Auditor-General Act 1997. This arrangement sets out the details of this arrangement between the DMO and the ANAO for the review of PDSS for the fifteen major capital equipment acquisition projects in this report as at 30 June 2009. This arrangement includes detailed PDSS Guidelines which require each PDSS prepared by the DMO to contain materially accurate data supported by evidence considered necessary by the ANAO to conduct its assurance review of the data in the PDSS.
The PDSS Guidelines:
• identify and define the roles of each organisation involved in producing the DMO MPR;
• provide a list of projects to be included in the 2008-09 DMO MPR;
• provide an activity schedule for the organisations involved;
• provide detailed instructions on the development of project specific PDSS and the supporting evidence necessary for ANAO review of data;
• provides general guidance on the report's formatting conventions and the security classification of data; and
• describe the processes and procedures necessary for producing the annual DMO MPR.