Green Corps

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Green Corps
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BACKGROUND
1996
Green Corps funded by Australian Government
Single provider contracted to implement the
programme
2002
Programme management moved to Department of
Family and Community Services. Scope of programme
is to achieve the conservation, protection and
restoration of Australias natural and cultural
heritage.
2004
Programme moved to DEWR Scope unchanged
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OBJECTIVES

• Provide young people (17 20 years) with
• quality training and experience
• personal development, including teamwork and
  leadership skills
• improved career and employment prospects through
  accredited and on-the-project training
• Contribute to high priority conservation projects
• Promote environmental, conservation and natural
  heritage outcomes

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OUTCOMES SINCE START OF PROGRAMME

• More than 1380 projects
• 3,391,000 trees planted
• 1,120,000 seedlings propagated
• 1660 kms walking track
• 10,600ms boardwalk
• 708 fauna surveys
• 1030 community field days
• 2695 kilos seeds collected/cleaned

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SERVICE DESCRIPTION - TODAY

• 1,700 participants per annum
• 170 projects of 26 weeks each
• 10 participants per project
• 85 of projects located in regional and remote
  areas
• Participants involvement - 35 hours per week
• Participant allowance based on educational
  attainment and age

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SERVICE DESCRIPTION - TODAY

• Funding agreement specifies objectives,
  processes, outputs and performance indicators
• Programme implemented through overlapping Project
  Rounds each comprising 30 50 projects
• New projects proposed by local organisations (eg
  local councils, indigenous organisations,
  catchment management authorities)
• Each project managed locally by a delivery agency
  in conjunction with the local partner agency

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SERVICE DESCRIPTION NEW CONTRACT
Project Distribution

• Provision to accommodate multiple providers
• Projects allocated across four regions
• Region 1 Victoria/Tasmania (28)
• Region 2 ACT/New South Wales (27)
• Region 3 Northern Territory/Queensland (23)
• Region 4 South Australia/Western Australia (22)

Tenderers must identify to which region their
tender relates
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SERVICE DESCRIPTION NEW CONTRACT
Project Distribution

• Service providers can tender for one or more
  regions
• Maximum of two providers for each region
• Where two providers in one region, each will be
  awarded 50 of business
• Successful tenderers required to service entire
  region.
• No less than 75 of projects to be located in
  regional and remote areas (as defined by the Job
  Network)

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SERVICE DESCRIPTION NEW CONTRACT
Project Development

• Sourced from a range of partner agencies
• To encompass range of activities, for example
• land care
• conservation and cultural heritage
• Indigenous heritage
• Focus on development of young people
• Comply with Commonwealth, State and local
  government laws and regulations
• Consistent with the National Greenhouse Response
  Strategy, principles of Ecologically Sustainable
  Development, the Burra Charter and the Australian
  National Heritage Charter
• Are relevant to the community based environmental
  initiatives announced in Government environmental
  policy

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SERVICE DESCRIPTION NEW CONTRACT
Project Development

• Major projects - providers to consult and work
  with agencies such as National Heritage Trust,
  local indigenous organisations, local government
• Participants to be additional to the existing
  workforce
• Participants must not reduce, replace or
  substitute for existing workers

Project Approval

• Project proposals evaluated by a Project
  Evaluation Panel (PEP)
• Administrative arrangements around PEPs dependent
  on number and location of providers
• Administrative arrangement will be finalised in
  consultation with the successful providers

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SERVICE DESCRIPTION NEW CONTRACT
Participants

• Age range 17-20
• Must be Australian citizens
• Should include
• gender mix
• Indigenous and non-Indigenous youth
• young people from diverse cultural and linguistic
  backgrounds
• young people from a variety of education,
  employment and training backgrounds
• Must include participants from metropolitan,
  regional and remote areas

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SERVICE DESCRIPTION NEW CONTRACT
Responsibilities of Service Providers

• Encourage the participation of young people with
  disabilities in the programme
• Develop a selection process to consider all
  suitable applicants
• Where a participant referred through Centrelink
  or a Job Network Member that participant must be
  given priority for placement
• Assess the training needs of each participant
• Negotiate a training agreement with each
  participant

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SERVICE DESCRIPTION NEW CONTRACT
Responsibilities of Service Providers

• Provide training in first aid and OHS
• Provide accredited and on-the-programme training
• Ensure participants are supervised at all times
• Engage appropriately qualified personnel to
  supervise participants
• Provide the necessary safety equipment for each
  project
• Provide each participant with a uniform
• Ensure all participants are transported to
  training and project sites in vehicles with seat
  belts or harnesses

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SERVICE DESCRIPTION NEW CONTRACT
Participant Allowance

• Service providers will receive
• a participant allowance to be paid to Green Corps
  participants
• an administrative fee per placement
  (Administration Payment)
• Service providers will
• pay a single rate of participation allowance to
  participants
• make fortnightly payments in arrears directly
  into an account nominated by each Green Corps
  participant
• provide each Green Corps participant with a
  fortnightly statement of the amount of funds they
  will be receiving

NOTE Green Corps participant allowance regarded
as income by the ATO. Service providers will
deduct taxation from the participant allowance
and forward to the ATO.
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SERVICE DESCRIPTION NEW CONTRACT
Insurance

• Service Providers will be responsible for public
  liability insurance, insurance cover for their
  own staff, premises and equipment and
  comprehensive motor vehicle insurance.
• DEWR provides participants with public and/or
  products liability insurance.

NOTE The Green Corps programme requires service
providers obtain and maintain workers
compensation insurance for all Green Corps
participants. Service Providers must also comply
with the relevant State/Territory workers
compensation legislation.
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GREEN CORPS RFT - BIDDING PROCESS
Administration Fee

• Tenderers will need to specify
• Their Administration Payment for each placement
• The minimum and maximum number of placements

NOTE Indicative costs per participant
between 7,000 and 7,500 per 26 week placement.
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GREEN CORPS RFT - BIDDING PROCESS
Administration Fee
Quote for Administration Payment should be
separated into components including

• travel and accommodation
• training component
• uniform component
• vehicle and other equipment component
• supervision component
• other management component

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GREEN CORPS RFT - BIDDING PROCESS
Conditionality
Organisations may nominate regions or receiving
other contracts as condition of accepting Green
Corps business
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SELECTION CRITERIA
Tenderers will be assessed on three selection
criteria in addition to tendered service fee

• demonstrated performance in delivery of Green
  Corps or similar services
• proposed strategies to achieve outcomes for Green
  Corps
• local strategies to promote, sustain and enhance
  the delivery of Green Corps in the region

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KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS (KPIs)
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KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS (KPIs)
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
KPI 1 - Effectiveness
Description The extent to which the Green Corps
service provider achieves their objectives in
relation to service delivery

• Measure
• Number of participants who complete their full 26
  week Green Corps placement as a proportion of the
  total number of placements
• Number of participants referred to Green Corps by
  Job Network Members as a proportion of all
  participants
• Total number of Green Corps participants compared
  to the available number of placements

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KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS (KPIs)
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
KPI 2 - Efficiency
Description Achievement of sustainable programme
outcomes.

• Measure
• Number of participants who have moved to
  employment or further study within 3 months of
  completing their Green Corps participation
• Participant satisfaction with their Green Corps
  placement as measured by PPM surveys
• Number of participants who complete their
  accredited training schedule

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KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS (KPIs)
KPI 3 - Quality
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
Description Extent to which providers offer a
service to participants that complies with the
contract and is in accordance with the
guidelines, Code of Practice and the Green Corps
Service Guarantee (to be drafted).

• Measure
• DEWR satisfaction with the delivery of services
  including but not limited to
• number/type of serious complaints, series of
  complaints, and active management of complaints,
  including assisting DEWR in negotiating complaint
  resolution
• Projects operate in accordance with the project
  plans approved as part of Project Evaluation
  Process
• number of projects located in regional and remote
  areas

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QUESTIONS