What does 4.6.5 require?

Suppliers under MMR contracts must report progress against their Indigenous Participation Plan quarterly through the IPPRS: for employment targets the total workforce working hours and the Indigenous workforce working hours for the quarter, from which the system calculates full time equivalents; and for supplier use the details of subcontracts or purchases made with Indigenous enterprises, including the Australian Business Number and name of the enterprise, the value and date, a description of the goods or services and whether the contract was let by the supplier directly or by a subcontractor within its supply chain. Portfolios set the number of days, up to 60, a contractor has to submit each quarterly report; organisation-level supply chain reports are due within a fixed 14 days. The Commonwealth entity must ensure suppliers report in a timely manner and must review all information provided. The NIAA publishes on its website the names and contract details of suppliers awarded contracts containing the MMR.

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Other controls in Section 4 Mandatory Minimum Indigenous Participation Requirements for high value contracts – Australia Indigenous Procurement Policy (May 2026)

4.1 MMR in tendering: tenderers must set out how the targets will be met in an Indigenous Participation Plan, state whether they have been subject to MMR targets before and declare current Indigenous employment and supplier use; the entity must consider each plan and the tenderer's past MMR performance held in the IPPRS and document those considerations in the tender assessment
4.2 MMR application: include Mandatory Minimum Indigenous Participation Requirements in the approach to market for every procurement wholly delivered in Australia valued at 7.5 million dollars or more (GST inclusive) where more than half the value falls in the Appendix B industry categories (eight from 1 July 2016, nineteen from 1 July 2020), including procurements from panels and coordinated or cooperative arrangements; excluded are CPR 2.6 contracts, the Appendix B sub-category exemptions and contracts delivered wholly or partly overseas, where voluntary application and IPPRS reporting are encouraged
4.3 Varied contracts: a Portfolio may negotiate the MMR into a varied contract where the variation lifts total value to 7.5 million dollars or more, more than half the value is in the specified sectors and the variation offers real opportunity for Indigenous participation in the remainder, applying from the variation date; not where the contract is nearly complete or the burden outweighs the outcome; only by mutual agreement with no penalty for refusal, and reported in the IPPRS as a voluntary MMR
4.4 MMR targets (Table 1): the supplier, with the entity, elects a contract-level target of 4 per cent Indigenous employment (average FTE of the Australian-based workforce on the project) or 4 per cent of contract value to Indigenous enterprises or a combination totalling 4 per cent, or an organisation-level target of 3 per cent employment or 3 per cent of the Australian supply chain or a combination totalling 3 per cent, all by the end of the contract term, met directly or through subcontracts
4.5 Remote components: where any part of an MMR contract is delivered in remote Australia the entity must contract for significant Indigenous employment or supplier use in that area above the minimum targets, for example by subcontracting Indigenous enterprises or setting a minimum employment share (such as 20 per cent) for the remote work, set with regard to the local labour market and Indigenous business sector, the scale and location of the contract, available supply-side support and existing government targets
4.6.1 Approach to market: specify whether any component is delivered in a remote area and require tenderers to declare their compliance with past MMR contracts and to submit an Indigenous Participation Plan covering how the MMR will be met, current Indigenous employment and supplier use rates, their commitment to Indigenous participation and how significant outcomes will be delivered in any remote area; new panel deeds must state that the MMR applies to procurements from the panel
4.6.2 Tender evaluation and panel orders: consider past MMR compliance from the IPPRS, the proposed Indigenous Participation Plan and, for remote components, the ability to achieve significant outcomes; when ordering from a panel where the order meets the MMR criteria, require the panel member's Indigenous Participation Plan and past compliance details and consider them in the evaluation, awarding only to suppliers with the capacity to meet the MMR
4.6.4 Contract management: the contract manager ensures compliance with the Indigenous Participation Plan and MMR targets through the term, establishing, monitoring and assessing the supplier's quarterly IPPRS progress reports and running assurance over their accuracy; targets may be varied only consistently with the policy (still summing to 4 or 3 per cent and significant for remote components), through a contract variation, a revised agreed plan and an IPPRS update

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