{ "schema_version": "1.0", "compiled": "2026-08-19", "purpose": "Baseline manifest of the Queensland Procurement Assurance Model corpus. Records what each document governs, when the publisher last changed it, and its content hash at the time of capture, so a later change is provable rather than remembered.", "publisher": "State of Queensland", "publisher_site": "https://www.forgov.qld.gov.au", "licence": "CC BY 4.0", "licence_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "attribution_note": "The Procurement Assurance Model Framework specifies citation as: Procurement Assurance Model: Framework 2026.", "capture_method": "Direct fetch from the publisher. Dates are read from DCTERMS meta on each landing page, not inferred. Hashes are SHA256 of the exact bytes served.", "why_the_dates_matter": "Every forgov page carries DCTERMS.modified in machine-readable form, so change detection is a fetch and parse rather than a diff. Expiry is uniformly modified plus one year and functions as an automatic review flag, not a real deadline. The signal to watch is modified moving.", "known_future_change": { "what": "The Framework commits to being updated with incentive scheme detail.", "by": "2027-01-01", "also_on_that_date": "The tiered supplier rating incentive scheme commences.", "implication": "A known version change with a date attached. Baselining before it lands is what makes the diff ownable." }, "observed_pattern": { "note": "5 of the 7 documents were created or revised in May 2026. guidance dates to the 6 January 2026 commencement week. This looks like a policy wave that has not been compiled publicly.", "may_2026_wave": [ "framework", "supplier-code", "conflicts", "handling-info", "acting-properly" ] }, "documents": [ { "slug": "framework", "title": "Procurement Assurance Model Framework", "cite_as": "Procurement Assurance Model: Framework 2026", "governs": "The assurance model itself. Three interlinked systems: incentive scheme from 1 Jan 2027, capability building and accountability from 1 Jan 2026. Sets out what an unmet commitment is, how it is graded minor/moderate/major, and what follows. Applies to all suppliers engaged by any agency covered by the QPP.", "status": "GOVERNING", "landing_page": "https://www.forgov.qld.gov.au/finance-procurement-and-travel/procurement/procurement-resources/search-for-procurement-policies-resources-tools-and-templates/procurement-assurance-model-framework-resource", "document_url": "https://www.forgov.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0033/658176/procurement-assurance-model-framework.pdf", "format": "pdf", "pdf_version": "1.7", "created": "2025-12-22", "modified": "2026-05-19", "expiry": "2027-05-19", "bytes": 1083479, "sha256": "dc3bee20205cdac77f26e65a2e7f2bd5e0b5f9828165813478b6a09d890f2585", "captured": "2026-08-19", "notes": "Replaces the Ethical Supplier Mandate, effective 1 January 2026. The 125km Local Benefits Test appears nowhere in this document. Table 2 grades unmet commitments against purposeful public procurement outcomes by undelivered margin: 1-40% minor, 41-75% moderate, 76-100% major. A sanction prevents doing business with government for up to 2 years. Up to two Improvement Notices, with 5 business days to respond. New suppliers are exempt from initial assessment until 12 months after their first government contract. Agencies must check the Portal unless the supplier is pre-qualified or the value is under the $50,000 including GST general exemption threshold. Page 2 states the Framework is intended as a guide for the internal use of government agencies and may not be relied on by any other party, which is notable given suppliers are the parties rated under it.", "read_status": "FULL_TEXT_READ", "read_date": "2026-08-20" }, { "slug": "guidance", "title": "Procurement Assurance Model Guidance", "governs": "Agency-facing operational guidance on applying the model. States one rule more plainly than the Framework does, and carries the referral addresses and contact numbers.", "status": "GOVERNING_SUPPLEMENT", "landing_page": "https://www.forgov.qld.gov.au/finance-procurement-and-travel/procurement/procurement-resources/procurement-policies-and-frameworks/procurement-assurance-model-guidance", "document_url": null, "format": "html", "created": "2026-01-06", "modified": "2026-01-06", "expiry": "2027-01-06", "bytes": 247741, "sha256": "c8706ffbad41c27c026bc043c88d6d030aa486cb5b4c65a8f753c16607198fec", "captured": "2026-08-19", "notes": "States verbatim: 'Sanctions apply only to new contracts or contract extensions and do not affect existing contracts.' The Framework conveys the same effect by enumeration in section 3.3.6.3, since every listed sanction type is prospective, but does not state it as a rule. Important caveat: Framework section 3.3.6 says an agency may activate any contract remedy in addition to referring the matter, so an existing contract is protected from PAM sanction, not from termination. The sentence sits in a section headed 'Impact of outcomes under the PAM on agencies' operations', so the plainest statement of a rule that matters most to suppliers is written to reassure agencies. HTML only, no downloadable document, so the page itself is the artifact.", "hash_basis": "Whole-page SHA256 is not client-stable and is retained only as a record of the 19 August capture. The DCTERMS meta block hash, added 20 August, is the comparable value.", "read_status": "FULL_TEXT_READ", "read_date": "2026-08-20", "dcterms_sha256": "7b07c37c6b31f1d4777331d8c94dfef8a2d6b7bbdb3a7b164d12024add253b13" }, { "slug": "supplier-code", "title": "Queensland Government Supplier Code of Conduct 2026", "governs": "The conduct standard suppliers are held to, and the benchmark Framework Table 2 grades against. Ethical expectations (2.1-2.8), social (3.1-3.7), environmental (4.1).", "status": "GOVERNING", "landing_page": "https://www.forgov.qld.gov.au/finance-procurement-and-travel/procurement/procurement-resources/search-for-procurement-policies-resources-tools-and-templates/queensland-government-supplier-code-of-conduct-2026", "document_url": "https://www.forgov.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0028/641719/supplier-code-of-conduct-2026.pdf", "format": "pdf", "pdf_version": "1.6", "created": "2025-11-05", "modified": "2026-05-20", "expiry": "2027-05-20", "bytes": 207307, "sha256": "6739f6f558f26c9c9819b35945e2d9c3d655aa0de0f3d11d06977eab95726b2b", "captured": "2026-08-19", "notes": "Version discrepancy: the PDF footer reads 'Version 1.0 November 2025' while the landing page reports modified 2026-05-20. Either the page was touched without the document changing, or the footer was not updated. Section 1.1 imposes an active obligation often missed: suppliers on contracts executed on or after 1 January 2026 must make and retain records demonstrating adherence. Section 2.7 ties subcontractor payment terms to project and retention trust account requirements under the Building Industry Fairness (Security of Payment) Act 2017. Section 3.7 requires child safe standards under the Child Safe Organisations Act 2024. Also published at a second location on business.qld.gov.au, not yet compared.", "read_status": "FULL_TEXT_READ", "read_date": "2026-08-20" }, { "slug": "conflicts", "title": "Managing conflicts of interest (Procurement and Delivery): Supplier guidelines", "governs": "Elaborates Code section 2.1. Defines conflict of interest and the three types a supplier must disclose.", "status": "SUPPLIER_GUIDELINE", "landing_page": "https://www.forgov.qld.gov.au/finance-procurement-and-travel/procurement/procurement-resources/search-for-procurement-policies-resources-tools-and-templates/managing-conflicts-of-interest-procurement-and-delivery-supplier-guidelines", "document_url": "https://www.forgov.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0034/872764/managing-conflicts-of-interest-supplier-guidelines.pdf", "docx_url": "https://www.forgov.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/word_doc/0037/872767/managing-conflicts-of-interest-supplier-guidelines.docx", "format": "pdf", "pdf_version": "1.6", "created": "2026-05-11", "modified": "2026-05-11", "expiry": "2027-05-11", "bytes": 168234, "sha256": "df0df63850574c9235a9c6e5395efc47f741698ec07774182e4b28a69da8f622", "captured": "2026-08-19", "notes": "New document, created 11 May 2026. Adds no obligation beyond the Code but defines three categories: actual, perceived and potential. Perceived fires on appearance alone even where no actual conflict exists, so a supplier disclosing only actual conflicts is under-disclosing. The definition is scoped to the government buyer's ability to act impartially, which is narrower than most commercial COI policies. Notes that individual agencies may run their own procedures on top. DOCX and PDF confirmed word-for-word identical.", "read_status": "FULL_TEXT_READ", "read_date": "2026-08-20" }, { "slug": "handling-info", "title": "Handling Information (Procurement and Delivery): Supplier Guidelines", "governs": "Elaborates Code section 2.3. Confidentiality, integrity and availability of information related to a government contract.", "status": "SUPPLIER_GUIDELINE", "landing_page": "https://www.forgov.qld.gov.au/finance-procurement-and-travel/procurement/procurement-resources/search-for-procurement-policies-resources-tools-and-templates/handling-information-procurement-and-delivery-supplier-guidelines", "document_url": "https://www.forgov.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0032/872573/handling-information-supplier-guidelines.pdf", "docx_url": "https://www.forgov.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/word_doc/0033/872574/handling-information-supplier-guidelines.docx", "format": "pdf", "pdf_version": "1.6", "created": "2026-05-11", "modified": "2026-05-11", "expiry": "2027-05-11", "bytes": 120840, "sha256": "5104264d199c53013d9b4294a0c91e604bda685250d6e96dafdf05499d13dfc2", "captured": "2026-08-19", "notes": "New document, created 11 May 2026, same day as conflicts. Adds no obligation beyond the Code. The only document in the corpus to name an external standard: suppliers are strongly encouraged to consider aligning with ISO 27001. Section 2.1 requires suppliers to ensure employees and subcontractors understand confidentiality obligations, continuing a pattern across the corpus of pushing obligations down the supply chain.", "read_status": "FULL_TEXT_READ", "read_date": "2026-08-20" }, { "slug": "acting-properly", "title": "Acting Properly Toward Government Officers: Influencing Decision-making (Procurement and Delivery): Supplier Guidelines", "governs": "Elaborates Code section 2.5. Probity in dealings with government officers.", "status": "SUPPLIER_GUIDELINE", "landing_page": "https://www.forgov.qld.gov.au/finance-procurement-and-travel/procurement/procurement-resources/search-for-procurement-policies-resources-tools-and-templates/acting-properly-toward-government-officers-influencing-decision-making-procurement-and-delivery-supplier-guidelines", "document_url": "https://www.forgov.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0026/872135/influencing-decision-making-supplier-guidelines.pdf", "docx_url": "https://www.forgov.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/word_doc/0027/872154/influencing-decision-making-supplier-guidelines.docx", "format": "pdf", "pdf_version": "1.6", "created": "2022-01-01", "modified": "2026-05-08", "expiry": "2027-05-08", "bytes": 111276, "sha256": "5940edcd071800d35e1680b1d429db46ebc40fbda341a8197269f8f43ddb9ff2", "captured": "2026-08-19", "notes": "Oldest document in the corpus, created 2022, revised 8 May 2026, and the thinnest. One page, no numbered clauses, no definition of what constitutes influencing, no threshold, no examples. The Code's section 2.5 is more concrete, naming inducements and gifts. Framework Table 2 item 6 makes attempted influence a Major unmet commitment attracting sanction, qualified only by the decision maker finding it egregious. The most severe consequence in the outcome matrix attaches to the least specified standard in the corpus.", "read_status": "FULL_TEXT_READ", "read_date": "2026-08-20" }, { "slug": "building-policy", "title": "Building Policy Framework", "governs": "Queensland Government building and construction procurement policy. Adjacent to PAM rather than part of it, but listed as related and relevant to construction suppliers.", "status": "ADJACENT", "landing_page": "https://www.forgov.qld.gov.au/property-land-and-infrastructure/manage-government-buildings-and-assets/building-frameworks/building-policy-framework", "document_url": null, "format": "html", "created": "2022-04-12", "modified": "2026-03-03", "expiry": "2027-03-03", "bytes": 243137, "sha256": "0662da40b6561f1c7ecc28bd0b3b60f923ad9f7fad67599101c52f18928cf188", "captured": "2026-08-19", "notes": "HTML landing page, no attached document found in this capture. May link out to further documents not yet followed.", "hash_basis": "Whole-page SHA256 is not client-stable and is retained only as a record of the 19 August capture. The DCTERMS meta block hash, added 20 August, is the comparable value.", "read_status": "NOT_READ", "read_date": null, "dcterms_sha256": "c1e1c9c7195ef24661a62ad0c304ab4ad00c37a1f8fea2c8569b2bc3543e125d" } ], "regulator_feeds": { "source": "Framework section 3.1.2 (unnamed) and Appendix 2 (named in an example contract clause)", "note": "Framework section 3.1.2 states only that ratings draw on 'performance in fulfilling contractual obligations' and 'supplier history drawn from previous assurance assessments and open source data held by state and federal regulatory agencies'. It names no regulator. The four below appear in Appendix 2, inside an example contract definitions clause defining 'Government Department or Instrumentality', not as a stated rating feed. Treating them as the feed list is an inference, not the document's statement.", "named": [ { "regulator": "Work Health and Safety Queensland", "platform_holding": "none" }, { "regulator": "Queensland Building and Construction Commission", "platform_holding": "licences only, not enforcement actions" }, { "regulator": "Fair Work Commission", "platform_holding": "harvested, never cheffed" }, { "regulator": "Australian Taxation Office", "platform_holding": "none, likely to stay closed" } ], "honest_scope": "Any claim of authority on supplier assurance must state the registers actually held, not the four the Framework names." }, "related_supplier_test": { "source": "Framework Appendix 1", "definition": "A supplier is related where it is a related body corporate, OR shares one or more common company officers, OR shares a business address.", "note": "Appendix 1 gives the three limbs above. Section 3.3.4.1 gates when the provision fires: the related supplier must continue the work of a business that has been issued an outcome under the PAM AND that business must have ceased trading or entered liquidation, AND control must be shown, per section 50AA of the Corporations Act 2001. It is a phoenix provision, not a general related-party rule." }, "not_a_feed": { "what": "qgpassuranceportal.hpw.qld.gov.au", "note": "The assurance portal is agency-facing. It records moderate and major outcomes and shows sanctions in force to government procurement officers. Not a public data source." }, "pending": [ "SHA256 for building-policy is of the served HTML landing page, not a document", "Follow building-policy for attached documents not surfaced in this capture; still NOT_READ", "Compare the Supplier Code at its business.qld.gov.au location against the forgov PDF", "Resolve the Supplier Code version discrepancy: PDF footer November 2025 vs landing page modified 2026-05-20", "Ingest to a Gemini File Search store under the existing qld2032-regulatory-* pattern, blocked on credits", "Scheduled re-fetch comparing DCTERMS.modified and SHA256 against this baseline" ], "last_corrected": "2026-08-20", "correction_note": "Documents marked FULL_TEXT_READ were read in full on 2026-08-20 and their descriptions corrected against the source text. Before that date several descriptions were compiled from working notes rather than the documents themselves, and overstated what the Framework says about regulator feeds and the related supplier test.", "rules": [ { "q": "How long does a sanction under the PAM last?", "a": "Up to 2 years from the date of the decision. A sanction prevents the supplier doing business with Queensland Government for that period.", "doc": "framework", "section": "3.3.6", "read_date": "2026-08-20" }, { "q": "Do PAM sanctions affect existing contracts?", "a": "No. Sanctions apply only to new contracts and contract extensions. An existing contract is protected from PAM sanction, but not from termination: Framework 3.3.6 allows an agency to activate any contract remedy in addition to referring the matter.", "doc": "guidance", "section": "Impact of outcomes on agencies' operations", "read_date": "2026-08-20" }, { "q": "How is an unmet commitment graded minor, moderate or major?", "a": "Table 2 grades purposeful public procurement outcomes by undelivered margin: 1-40% minor, 41-75% moderate, 76-100% major.", "doc": "framework", "section": "Table 2", "read_date": "2026-08-20" }, { "q": "How many Improvement Notices can a supplier receive, and how long is there to respond?", "a": "Up to two Improvement Notices, with 5 business days to respond to each.", "doc": "framework", "section": "3.3", "read_date": "2026-08-20" }, { "q": "Are new suppliers assessed immediately?", "a": "No. New suppliers are exempt from initial assessment until 12 months after their first Queensland Government contract.", "doc": "framework", "section": "3.3", "read_date": "2026-08-20" }, { "q": "When must an agency check the assurance portal before awarding?", "a": "On every procurement except where the supplier is pre-qualified, or the value falls under the $50,000 including GST general exemption threshold.", "doc": "framework", "section": "3.3", "read_date": "2026-08-20" }, { "q": "Can suppliers rely on the PAM Framework?", "a": "The Framework states on page 2 that it is intended as a guide only for the internal use and benefit of government agencies, and may not be relied on by any other party. Suppliers are the parties rated, sanctioned and excluded under it.", "doc": "framework", "section": "page 2", "read_date": "2026-08-20" } ] }