Annual Procurement Plan

An Annual Procurement Plan (APP) is a mandatory feature of the procurement policy framework as articulated in the CPGs. It is a tool that facilitates early procurement planning and draws businesses’ early attention to agencies’ planned procurement for the forthcoming financial year.

Australian Government policy requires agencies to publish an APP on AusTender by 1 July each year. An agency may publish its APP at an earlier date, but no earlier than 1 June. APPs may have an outlook that is greater than the mandatory 12 months as long as a new APP is published annually.

If a covered procurement is published as a planned procurement in an APP, the CPGs allow an agency to reduce the submission time frame for that procurement to less than the standard 25 day time limit but no shorter than 10 days, provided reasonable time is still available for potential suppliers to prepare their submission. (A covered procurement is one where total expenditure is greater than $80 000.)

Australian Government policy requires agencies to publish an APP on AusTender by 1 July each year. An agency may publish its APP at an earlier date, but no earlier than 1 June.

ComSupers Current Annual Procurement Plan

ComSuper's APP for the Financial Year 08/09