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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Monday, 15 December 2008 | |
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An expert panel has been charged with the task of evaluating the proposals received by the government. The panel comprises John Wylie (CEO, Lazard Carnegie Wylie), Tony Mitchell (chairman, Allphones), Laureate Professor Rod Tucker (University of Melbourne), Professor Emeritus of Communications Reg Coutts (University of Adelaide), Tony Shaw (former chairman, Australian Communications Authority) and Ken Henry, (Treasury Secretary). Proposals were received from Acacia, Axia, Optus (on behalf of the Terria consortium), Telstra, TransACT, and the Tasmanian government. But Telstra fell at the first fence when it was determined that its proposal did not meet with the requirements of the RFP. Section 10.9 of the RFP document made it clear that organisations submitting proposals were required to "prepare a Plan demonstrating how they will provide full, fair and reasonable opportunity to Australian and New Zealand SMEs to supply goods and services to the NBN Project" and that they "must submit a Plan to be recommended for funding." That sounds straightforward enough to me - no plan, no funding. So what's the problem? Please read on. |
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