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AusTender
    7.6             AusTender[11], the Australian Government's procurement information system, is a centralised web-based facility that publishes a range of information, including relevant entities' planned procurements, open tenders and key details of contracts awarded. It also supports secure electronic tendering to deliver integrity and efficiency for relevant entities and potential suppliers.
    7.7             AusTender is the system used to enable relevant entities to meet their publishing obligations under the CPRs. It also enables relevant entities to monitor and review their AusTender-based procurements, including approaches to market, publication of contracts, and amendments to contracts.

Annual procurement plans
    7.8             In order to draw the market's early attention to potential procurement opportunities, each relevant entity must maintain on AusTender a current procurement plan containing a short strategic procurement outlook.
    7.9             The annual procurement plan should include the subject matter of any significant planned procurement and the estimated publication date of the approach to market. Relevant entities should update their plans regularly throughout the year.

Notifications to the market
    7.10         Relevant entities must use AusTender to publish open tenders and, to the extent practicable, to make relevant request documentation available.
    7.11         Relevant entities may use AusTender to publish limited tender approaches to market and make relevant request documentation available.
    7.12         Relevant entities should include relevant evaluation criteria in request documentation to enable the proper identification, assessment and comparison of submissions on a fair, common and appropriately transparent basis.
    7.13         In any additional notification through other avenues, such as printed media, the details selected for inclusion in the notification must be the same as those published on AusTender.
    7.14         When a relevant entity provides request documentation or any other document, already published on AusTender in any other form (for example, a printed version) that documentation must be the same as that published on AusTender.
    7.15         The initial approach to market for a multi-stage procurement must include, for every stage, the criteria that will be used to select potential suppliers, and if applicable, any limitation on the number of potential suppliers that will be invited to make submissions.

Providing information
    7.16         Officials must, on request, promptly provide, to eligible potential suppliers, request documentation that includes all information necessary to permit the potential supplier to prepare and lodge submissions.
    7.17         Following the rejection of a submission or the award of a contract, officials must promptly inform affected tenderers of the decision. Notification should be provided in writing, and must be provided in writing if requested by the tenderer. Debriefings must be made available, on request, to unsuccessful tenderers outlining the reasons the submission was unsuccessful. Debriefings must also be made available, on request, to the successful supplier(s).

Reporting arrangements
    7.18         Relevant entities must report contracts on AusTender within 42