As a matter of course, public sector agencies:
◼ are encouraged to prepare business cases to support agency internally funded decisions (to support projects arising from approved funded programs) and
◼ must prepare business cases to support the mandatory requirements for capital related resource allocation decisions of Government (identified in Table 1).
Table 1: Mandatory requirements
| Type of activity | Requirement |
| Construction projects | NSW Procurement Policy TPP 04-1 |
| Goods and services | NSW Procurement Policy TPP 04-1 |
| Information, communication and technology projects | NSW Procurement Policy TPP 04-1 People First - A New Direction for ICT in NSW |
| Property and accommodation projects | NSW Procurement Policy TPP 04-1 |
| Determining the requirements for business cases seeking capital funds | Treasury Circular TC 08/07 |
| Total Asset Management (TAM) submission requirements | TAM requirements for updating the SIS TPP 08-2 |