Agency head has been used throughout this Framework to describe the person holding the highest level of delegation within a department or an agency, and includes Secretaries and Chief Executive Officers. The term 'agency head' includes a delegate of the agency head.
Arrangement is a description of a contract, standing offer, scheme, or any other form of agreement between a government agency/s and supplier/s, whether or not the arrangement creates a legal relationship between the parties. There are various models of supplier arrangements in place, including:
contracts between an agency and a supplier
standing offer agreements between agencies and suppliers, which establish the legal arrangements for contracts relating to the purchase of goods or services
registration lists and prequalification schemes, under which agencies then enter into contracts.
Whilst these models create different legal relationships between agencies and suppliers, this Framework refers to these as 'arrangements' for the sake of simplicity.
Procurement refers to a process that begins with the basic 'make or buy' decision, and then spans the 'whole life' of supplier/construction arrangements. It includes the definition of business needs, designing and implementing arrangements, monitoring and managing performance, and reviewing outcomes to assess the effectiveness of the arrangements.
Purchasing is the process of buying or purchasing from those supplier arrangements.
Value is the genuine, estimated value over the proposed term of the acquisition (not a value per annum). Unless specified otherwise, value is inclusive of GST. If an agency undertakes more than one procurement activity with the same supplier for the same goods and services within a reasonable period of time, the value of all the procurements should be added together (that is, order splitting is prohibited).
Whole-of-government contract is an arrangement under which an agency/s provides for the purchase of goods or services by that agency and all other agencies. An arrangement where an agency/s allows one or more other agencies to piggy-back is referred to as a cooperative contract or multi-agency access contract.