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The ACT Corrective Services inappropriately engaged a preferred supplier to purchase Romeo 5.
ACT Corrective Services ignored fundamental procurement practices when it chose its preferred supplier to purchase a detainee transport vehicle that has since been found not fit-for-purpose and “largely redundant”, an audit report revealed.
Auditor general Michael Harris said the ACT Corrective Services inappropriately identified and engaged a preferred supplier – the Byron Group – for a “complex and high-risk contract” worth more than $200,000 (all contracts that exceed that amount are required to go to open tender), without testing the market or seeking alternative quotes when it took possession of the vehicle, “Romeo 5”, in June 2018.
Former chief commissioner of Victoria police, Christine Nixon.
FORMER Victoria police chief commissioner Christine Nixon has been appointed chair of the new oversight committee at the Alexander Maconochie Centre (AMC), in an effort to address issues that continue to emerge from the prison.
Ms Nixon will lead the newly-formed committee that will “develop a blueprint for change” at the centre, following a string of controversies at the prison in recent years.
Ms Nixon served as the chief commissioner of Victoria police between 2001 and 2009 – the first female ever to do so – and led the Victorian bushfire reconstruction and recovery authority, overseeing the rebuilding operation.