Policy
Explore the policy requirements that you need to know in order to have a successful sourcing experience.
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Consider First Policy
This policy guides you through important considerations that will help your investments meet their intended outcomes.
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Fair Criteria Policy
This policy helps companies sell to government regardless of their size or previous experience with government.
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Hosting Certification Framework
This Framework outlines the hosting certification process for buyers and sellers.
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Panels Policy
The policy makes digital panels easy to join and use for buyers and sellers.
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Contract Limits and Reviews Policy
The policy makes contracts shorter to decrease risk, increase competition and promote greater flexibility.
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Policy Portal
There are certain steps that must be followed when going through the sourcing process. Make sure you follow the policies.
Digital Sourcing Framework
The Digital Sourcing Framework is a set of principles, policies and guidance, that shows you how to buy digital products and services, on behalf of the Australian Government.
The principles of the framework
We've developed best-practice principles to guide you when you're sourcing digital products and services. These principles are:
- encourage competition
- be innovative and iterate often
- be structured in a way that lets small and medium enterprises (SMEs) compete fairly to provide components of large ICT projects
- be outcomes-focused
- use open standards and cloud first
- minimise cyber-security risks
- avoid duplication by not building platforms other agencies have already built