About Gavan

Gavan specialises in providing commercial, procurement and contracting advice to Commonwealth agencies on a broad range of matters. In particular, he has extensive experience advising on complex, high-value and high-profile ICT and other outsourcing projects for Commonwealth agencies. Gavan has been involved in developing, negotiating and advising on numerous ICT procurements and funding agreements and has an extensive understanding of the various issues and risks associated with developing and managing those arrangements. He regularly advises Commonwealth agencies on their procurement processes , develops and negotiates commercial documents, and advises on contract management issues.

Experience

• Department of Finance

  Advising the Department of Finance on the establishment and administration of a range of whole-of-government ICT panel agreements, including for desktop devices, telecommunication services and devices, major office machines, data centres, volume sourcing arrangements, major ICT vendor software and hardware, and cloud services.

• Department of Finance

  Advising the Department of Finance on the procurement of a software solution to replace the Commonwealth budget management system.

• Department of Defence

  Advising the Department of Defence on the procurement of an intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance integration system designed to centralise the collection and distribution of intelligence information.

• Department of Defence

  Advising the Department of Defence on the procurement of a core simulation capability, a complex project involving the provision and support of live, virtual and constructive simulation services.

• Department of Health

  Advising the Department of Health on outsourcing its IT services under an innovative outcomes based service delivery arrangement, including undertaking a due diligence of the licence arrangements relating to that procurement.