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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 for expressions of interest, open tender and limited tender.
Research and development – research is described as systematic enquiry or investigation into a subject in order to discover facts or principles. Research includes surveys, market research, scientific research and educational research. Development applies to the function of creating/producing new and improved products, devices, processes or services. Development also extends to design, proof of concept and the production of prototypes.
Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) – an Australian or New Zealand firm with fewer than 200 full-time equivalent employees. When assessing the number of employees a firm has, employees of any associated entities (as defined in s 50AAA of the Corporations Act 2001) to the firm are included. Associated entities to a firm include a firm's parent company, a firm's subsidiaries, and any related bodies corporate to the firm.
Specification – a description of the features of the goods and services to be procured.
Standards – means a document approved by a recognised body such as Standards Australia, the International Organization for Standardization, the International Electrotechnical Commission or the International Telecommunication Union that provides for common and repeated use, rules, guidelines or characteristics for goods or services, or related processes and production methods, with which compliance is not mandatory, unless the goods or services are subject to regulation by government.
Standing offer – an arrangement setting out the terms and conditions, including a basis for pricing, under which a supplier agrees to supply specified goods and services to a relevant entity for a specified period.
Submission – any formally submitted response from a potential supplier to an approach to market. Submissions may include tenders, responses to expressions of interest or responses to request for quote.
Supplier – an entity or person who has entered into a contract with the Commonwealth.
Tenderer – an entity or person who has responded with a submission to an approach to market.

 [1] Where such measures are applied, because Divisions 1 and 2 do not apply in full to the procurement, this has the effect that the procurement is not a covered procurement under the Government Procurement (Judicial Review) Act 2018; see section 6.
 [2] Officials are reminded that where paragraph 2.6 is applied, obligations under the PGPA Act continue to apply in relation to the proper use and management of public resources.
[3] As defined in the Commonwealth Grants Rules and Guidelines.
 [4] Consistent with section 19 of the PGPA Act, an Accountable Authority may