Number of providers responding to and delivering Job Services Australia tenders

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Dear Department of Employment,

I would like to know the number of providers that bid for the tenders for Job Services Australia and Job Network employment services for contracts beginning:

1998
2000
2003
2006
2009
2015

I would also like the number of providers that were delivering services under each contract in the month before it ended. The contracts I refer to begun in the years:

1998
2000
2003
2006
2009

Yours faithfully,

Emma Tomkinson

Dear Ms Tomkinson

We refer to your email below, seeking access under the Freedom of
Information Act 1982 (Cth) (FOI Act) to certain information relating to
the Job Services Australia contract and the Job Network contract.

The department acknowledges receipt of your request.

If you have any questions about your request, please contact us via email:
[1][email address]

Yours sincerely

Information Law Team

Information Law, Practice Management and Corporate Advising Branch

Australian Government Department of Employment

[2][email address]

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From: Emma Tomkinson
[[3]mailto:[FOI #1022 email]]

Sent: Monday, 16 March 2015 8:00 PM

To: Employment - FOI

Subject: Freedom of Information request - Number of providers responding
to and delivering Job Services Australia tenders

Dear Department of Employment,

I would like to know the number of providers that bid for the tenders for
Job Services Australia and Job Network employment services for contracts
beginning:

1998

2000

2003

2006

2009

2015

I would also like the number of providers that were delivering services
under each contract in the month before it ended. The contracts I refer to
begun in the years:

1998

2000

2003

2006

2009

Yours faithfully,

Emma Tomkinson

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Dear Ms Tomkinson

Thank you for your request dated 16 March 2015 to the Department of
Employment (the department) seeking information relating to Job Services
Australia (JSA) and Job Network (JN).

For your information, the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Cth) (FOI Act)
provides an individual with a right to obtain access to documents held by
an agency, rather than to information. You have not identified or
described any particular documents to which you seek access and therefore
in its current form the department is unable to process your request.

On this basis, I am writing to notify you of my intention to refuse your
request as your request does not provide sufficient information for me to
be able to identify relevant documents (a practical refusal reason under
paragraph 24AA(1)(b) of the FOI Act).

However, before making a decision to refuse your request, the FOI Act
provides an avenue by which I am able to assist you to revise the scope of
your request so that the practical refusal reason no longer exists. This
is known as a consultation period.

The consultation period gives you 14 days to contact me and make
submissions in support of your request as currently worded, or to make a
revised request so that the practical refusal reason no longer exists. You
may also decide to withdraw your request. If you do not contact the
department within this 14 day consultation period, your FOI request will
be taken to have been withdrawn (s 24AB(7) of the FOI Act).

To assist you in considering your request, we have included links to
publicly available material below:

· New Job Network (1998)

[1]http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/sear...

· Job Network December 1999

[2]http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/sear...

[3]http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/sear...

· Job Network 2003

[4]http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/sear...

· Job Network 2006

[5]http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/sear...

· Job Network 2007

[6]http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/sear...

· Job Services Australia 2009

[7]http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/sear...

· JSA 2012

[8]http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/sear...

· JSA (jobactive) 2015

[9]https://ministers.employment.gov.au/abet...

I encourage you to contact me within this consultation period so that I
can assist you with your request. I can be contacted directly on (02) 6121
6550 or via email at [10][email address].

Yours sincerely

Lisa Carmody

Information Law, Practice Management and Corporate Advising Branch

Australian Government Department of Employment

[11][email address]

-----Original Message-----

From: Emma Tomkinson
[[12]mailto:[FOI #1022 email]]

Sent: Monday, 16 March 2015 8:00 PM

To: Employment - FOI

Subject: Freedom of Information request - Number of providers responding
to and delivering Job Services Australia tenders

Dear Department of Employment,

I would like to know the number of providers that bid for the tenders for
Job Services Australia and Job Network employment services for contracts
beginning:

1998

2000

2003

2006

2009

2015

I would also like the number of providers that were delivering services
under each contract in the month before it ended. The contracts I refer to
begun in the years:

1998

2000

2003

2006

2009

Yours faithfully,

Emma Tomkinson

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