Elements and Performance Criteria
- Comply with the budget cycle
- Requirements of legislation, policy and guidelines relevant to the budget cycle are identified and incorporated into criteria for decision making.
- Calendar of budget cycle is produced, including identification of approval stages and deadlines.
- Organisation's internal budget processes are documented and explained to staff.
- Compliance strategies are developed to ensure budget process obligations are met, including security requirements.
- Consequences of non-compliance with obligations are identified and strategies to mitigate non-compliance are produced.
- Meet cabinet and other approval-process requirements
- Appropriate cabinet and/or other approval processes are identified and applied.
- Relevant cabinet documentation templates are used to prepare cabinet papers and submissions.
- Security requirements applicable to cabinet papers and other submissions are adhered to.
- Policy requirements of the organisation applicable to cabinet papers and other submissions are met.
- Internal organisational processes for cabinet submissions are complied with.
- Prepare a simple business case
- Outcomes expected of the business case are identified.
- Work plans are prepared in consultation with management and other stakeholders to ensure that business case satisfies guidelines and supports expected outcomes.
- Information to support the business case is sourced from inside and outside the organisation and its authenticity and reliability are confirmed.
- Information gathered is organised into concise, logical argument to support required outcomes.
- Appropriate reviewers for the business case are arranged and their comments are incorporated into the final submission.
- Appropriate approval is obtained for the business case.
- Comply with government procurement review processes
- Requirements of legislation, and policy and probity guidelines for procurement reviews are identified and analysed for relevance to the procurement activity.
- Applicable procurement review processes are built into activity plan.
- Plans are prepared to ensure procurement reviews undertaken by internal or external bodies are provided with assistance required to achieve the review.
- Preparation of records and information is undertaken to enable procurement review to be completed in a timely and efficient way.
- Implement procurement review recommendations
- Recommendations from procurement review processes are assessed against organisational policies and procedures to determine changes to those policies and procedures necessary to implement the recommendations.
- Organisation-wide implications of recommendations are addressed through communication with areas of the organisation affected by the recommendations.
- Processes for continuous improvement reflecting the recommendations are developed and initiated.
- Evaluation of the implementation of recommendations is undertaken at appropriate intervals to ensure continuous improvement.