Register · Procurement Assurance Model
The rules, and when each of them last moved.
Queensland's Procurement Assurance Model is not one document. It is 7, published separately, with no index and no change history. This is the index, with a content hash against each one.
Dates are read from the publisher's own metadata, not inferred. Machine-readable manifest: pam-corpus-manifest.json.
Governing documents
These set the obligations. The framework establishes the model and how suppliers are rated; the code of conduct is the standard they are rated against; the guidance page carries at least one operative rule that is not in the framework PDF at all.
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.
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.
| Last changed by publisher | 19 May 2026 |
| First published | 22 December 2025 |
| Format | PDF, 1,083,479 bytes |
| SHA256 at capture | dc3bee20205cdac77f26e65a2e7f2bd5e0b5f9828165813478b6a09d890f2585 |
| Description based on | Full text, read 20 August 2026 |
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.
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.
| Last changed by publisher | 6 January 2026 |
| First published | 6 January 2026 |
| Format | HTML, 247,741 bytes |
| SHA256 at capture | c8706ffbad41c27c026bc043c88d6d030aa486cb5b4c65a8f753c16607198fec |
| Description based on | Full text, read 20 August 2026 |
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).
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.
| Last changed by publisher | 20 May 2026 |
| First published | 5 November 2025 |
| Format | PDF, 207,307 bytes |
| SHA256 at capture | 6739f6f558f26c9c9819b35945e2d9c3d655aa0de0f3d11d06977eab95726b2b |
| Description based on | Full text, read 20 August 2026 |
The rules, one at a time
Each answer below is taken from the document named beside it and the section it sits in. Nothing here is summarised from commentary.
How long does a sanction under the PAM last?
Up to 2 years from the date of the decision. A sanction prevents the supplier doing business with Queensland Government for that period.
| Source | Procurement Assurance Model Framework |
| Section | 3.3.6 |
| Read from full text | 20 August 2026 |
| Document last changed | 19 May 2026 |
Do PAM sanctions affect existing contracts?
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.
| Source | Procurement Assurance Model Guidance |
| Section | Impact of outcomes on agencies' operations |
| Read from full text | 20 August 2026 |
| Document last changed | 6 January 2026 |
How is an unmet commitment graded minor, moderate or major?
Table 2 grades purposeful public procurement outcomes by undelivered margin: 1-40% minor, 41-75% moderate, 76-100% major.
| Source | Procurement Assurance Model Framework |
| Section | Table 2 |
| Read from full text | 20 August 2026 |
| Document last changed | 19 May 2026 |
How many Improvement Notices can a supplier receive, and how long is there to respond?
Up to two Improvement Notices, with 5 business days to respond to each.
| Source | Procurement Assurance Model Framework |
| Section | 3.3 |
| Read from full text | 20 August 2026 |
| Document last changed | 19 May 2026 |
Are new suppliers assessed immediately?
No. New suppliers are exempt from initial assessment until 12 months after their first Queensland Government contract.
| Source | Procurement Assurance Model Framework |
| Section | 3.3 |
| Read from full text | 20 August 2026 |
| Document last changed | 19 May 2026 |
When must an agency check the assurance portal before awarding?
On every procurement except where the supplier is pre-qualified, or the value falls under the $50,000 including GST general exemption threshold.
| Source | Procurement Assurance Model Framework |
| Section | 3.3 |
| Read from full text | 20 August 2026 |
| Document last changed | 19 May 2026 |
Can suppliers rely on the PAM Framework?
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.
| Source | Procurement Assurance Model Framework |
| Section | page 2 |
| Read from full text | 20 August 2026 |
| Document last changed | 19 May 2026 |
Supplier guidelines
Conduct standards a supplier is measured against during procurement and delivery. Two of these did not exist before 11 May 2026.
| Document | First published | Last changed |
|---|---|---|
| Managing conflicts of interest (Procurement and Delivery): Supplier guidelines | 11 May 2026 | 11 May 2026 |
| Handling Information (Procurement and Delivery): Supplier Guidelines | 11 May 2026 | 11 May 2026 |
| Acting Properly Toward Government Officers: Influencing Decision-making (Procurement and Delivery): Supplier Guidelines | 1 January 2022 | 8 May 2026 |
What feeds a supplier rating
The Framework does not name a single regulator as a rating input. Section 3.1.2 says only that ratings draw on performance in fulfilling contractual obligations, and on supplier history from previous assurance assessments and open source data held by state and federal regulatory agencies.
Four regulators are named in the document, but in Appendix 2, inside an example contract clause defining "Government Department or Instrumentality". Reading them as the rating feed is a reasonable inference and a common one. It is not what the Framework says.
| Regulator named | Held here |
|---|---|
| Work Health and Safety Queensland | none |
| Queensland Building and Construction Commission | licences only, not enforcement actions |
| Fair Work Commission | harvested, never cheffed |
| Australian Taxation Office | none, likely to stay closed |
The related supplier test
A supplier is related where it is a related body corporate, OR shares one or more common company officers, OR shares a business address.
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.
What the portal is, and is not
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. A supplier cannot look themselves up in it, and neither can anyone else.
Adjacent
Building Policy Framework — Queensland Government building and construction procurement policy. Adjacent to PAM rather than part of it, but listed as related and relevant to construction suppliers. Last changed 3 March 2026.
What this page does not tell you
The rest of the record
Disclosed contracts, licensed contractors, tenders and development applications, compiled daily from the same public registers.
The delivery decade →Sources
- Procurement Assurance Model Framework — State of Queensland, CC BY 4.0, last changed 19 May 2026
- Procurement Assurance Model Guidance — State of Queensland, CC BY 4.0, last changed 6 January 2026
- Queensland Government Supplier Code of Conduct 2026 — State of Queensland, CC BY 4.0, last changed 20 May 2026
- Managing conflicts of interest (Procurement and Delivery): Supplier guidelines — State of Queensland, CC BY 4.0, last changed 11 May 2026
- Handling Information (Procurement and Delivery): Supplier Guidelines — State of Queensland, CC BY 4.0, last changed 11 May 2026
- Acting Properly Toward Government Officers: Influencing Decision-making (Procurement and Delivery): Supplier Guidelines — State of Queensland, CC BY 4.0, last changed 8 May 2026
- Building Policy Framework — State of Queensland, CC BY 4.0, last changed 3 March 2026
- Corpus manifest — every URL, date, hash and scope note in machine-readable form
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. Baseline taken 19 August 2026. Corrected 20 August 2026: 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.