Family C · Running the organisation
Procuring for government
Sourcing, tender assessment, award, supplier and contract management, with probity controls and the audit trail produced automatically.
Procuring for government (MG-19) is one of the twenty-one MeshGov services, in the "Running the organisation" family. Sourcing, tender assessment, award, supplier and contract management, with probity controls and the audit trail produced automatically. It replaces sourcing suite and contract register. AI agents carry the work end to end; a named officer takes every decision with legal effect on a person, a business or public money. It is core at federal level, core at state level, core at local level.
What it replaces
- Sourcing suite
- Contract register
What it reacts to
- Tender closes
- Contract KPI reported
- Contract nears expiry
- Direct engagement proposed
The agents that carry it
Probity agent
Checks every evaluation panel member against every respondent and parent entity before evaluation opens.
Evaluation agent
Tests conformance and scores merit against the published criteria, citing the response text for every score.
Contract agent
Detects KPI breaches from service data, benchmarks renewals against panel rates and drafts the advice.
Where a person decides
No decision with legal effect on a person, a business or public money is taken by an agent alone. In Procuring for government, these decisions are held for a named officer, with the agent's evidence and recommendation attached.
| Decision | Who decides | Why a person |
|---|---|---|
| Every award, at any value | Procurement board or delegate | Public money |
| Remedy or termination notice | Delegated officer | Legal effect on a business |
| Direct engagement exemption | Delegated officer | Procurement rules |
Records it writes
Probity record · Evaluation report with citations · Award decision with variations · Contract KPI record · Exemption record
Before MeshGov: the baseline this service is measured against
Evaluation time
9 weeks
for a panel tender
Probity checked
after
evaluation, by declaration
KPI breaches found
quarterly
at the contract review
Contracts lapsed unnoticed
12
last year
Levels of government: core at federal level, core at state level, core at local level.
Questions buyers ask about Procuring for government
- What does MeshGov Procuring for government do?
- Sourcing, tender assessment, award, supplier and contract management, with probity controls and the audit trail produced automatically. It reacts to events such as tender closes, contract kpi reported and contract nears expiry, and writes probity record, evaluation report with citations, award decision with variations and contract kpi record as records.
- What systems does Procuring for government replace?
- Sourcing suite and Contract register. Because the service runs on the MeshGov platform, the licence, integration and upgrade costs of those systems retire with them.
- What do the AI agents do in Procuring for government?
- The probity agent checks every evaluation panel member against every respondent and parent entity before evaluation opens. The evaluation agent tests conformance and scores merit against the published criteria, citing the response text for every score. The contract agent detects KPI breaches from service data, benchmarks renewals against panel rates and drafts the advice.
- Which decisions does a person still take?
- Agents never take a decision with legal effect on a person, a business or public money. In Procuring for government, a person decides every award, at any value (procurement board or delegate), remedy or termination notice (delegated officer) and direct engagement exemption (delegated officer). The record shows who decided, why, on what evidence and under which delegation.
- Which levels of government use Procuring for government?
- It is core at federal level, core at state level, core at local level. MeshGov was checked against the Australian Government Architecture, the AGA Business Reference Model, the Queensland Government Enterprise Architecture and the UK Local Government Business Model, and serves government in any country.