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Evaluation criteria – the criteria that are used to evaluate the compliance and/or relative ranking of submissions. Evaluation criteria must be clearly stated in the request documentation.
Goods – every type of right, interest or thing which is legally capable of being owned. This includes, but is not restricted to, physical goods and real property as well as intangibles such as intellectual property, contract options and goodwill.
GST – The Goods and Services Tax, as defined by the A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999.
Indigenous Procurement Policy – a procurement-connected policy as defined in paragraphs 4.9 and 4.10.
Limited tender – involves a relevant entity approaching one or more potential suppliers to make submissions, when the process does not meet the rules for open tender.
Minimum content and format requirements – criteria that a tenderer's submission is required to meet, when responding to an approach to market, to be eligible for further consideration in a procurement process.
Multi-stage procurement – involves an initial approach to market followed by one or more subsequent approaches to market (for example, inviting expressions of interest followed by a request for tender).
Non-corporate Commonwealth entities – as defined in section 8 of the PGPA Act.
Officials – as defined in section 8 of the PGPA Act.
Open approach to market – any notice inviting all potential suppliers to participate in a procurement which may include a request for tender, request for quote, request for expression of interest, request for information and request for proposal.
Open tender – involves publishing an open approach to market and inviting submissions. This includes multi-stage procurements, provided the first stage is an open approach to market.
Potential supplier – an entity or person who may respond to an approach to market.
Procurement – refer to paragraphs 2.7 to 2.9.
Procurement thresholds – refer to paragraph 9.7.
Public resources – as defined in section 8 of the PGPA Act.
Relevant money – as defined in section 8 of the PGPA Act.
Relevant entity – non-corporate Commonwealth entities and prescribed corporate Commonwealth entities (listed in section 30 of the PGPA Rule) that must comply with the CPRs when performing duties related to procurement.
Reported contract – a contract published on AusTender.
Reporting threshold – the value at which any contract must be reported, either due to the initial value being at, or above, the reporting threshold, or as the result of contract amendments changing the value to be at, or above the reporting threshold.
Request documentation – documentation provided to potential suppliers to enable them to understand and assess the requirements of the procuring relevant entity and to prepare appropriate and responsive submissions. This general term includes documentation