Commercial Services Division

Treasury's Commercial Services Division acts as the Government's commercial advisor on the provision of infrastructure and managing the Government's risk on major infrastructure projects. Responsibilities include:

Public Private Partnerships

We work with State Government agencies and business and industry to deliver public infrastructure and services in line with the Government's Public Private Partnerships Policy. When considering potential projects, we ensure that departments comply with the Public Private Partnerships framework.

Our role involves working closely with agency project teams as they progress potential public private partnership projects, including representation on project steering committees and assisting in the preparation of project documents for Government consideration.

We also have responsibility for ongoing development of the Public Private Partnerships Policy. 

Refer to Public Private Partnerships for more information.

Infrastructure Projects Assessment Team

The Infrastructure Projects Assessment Team (IPAT) is a joint initiative between Queensland Treasury and Queensland Treasury Corporation (QTC). IPAT leverages the combined resources and experiences of QTC and Treasury to better ensure from the State’s perspective that public sector infrastructure projects are properly analysed, procured and delivered.

Established in July 2011, IPAT plays an active role in the assessment of Queensland Government infrastructure projects to ensure the State’s interests are appropriately promoted and protected.

Project Assurance Framework

The Project Assurance Framework sets the foundation for ensuring that project management is undertaken effectively across the Queensland Public Sector and that the Government achieves value for money from its significant investment in project activity. The Project Assurance Framework defines generic project stages and includes guidance material to support existing project management processes in each stage.

The Project Assurance Framework and its associated guidance material provide broad-based general guidance on project management and set the high-level parameters that may be evaluated in Gateway reviews and other project management quality assurance processes.

We assist agencies in applying the Project Assurance Framework to their projects and we have responsibility for the Framework’s ongoing development.

Gateway Review Process

Gateway Reviews consist of a series of short, intensive reviews (called ‘gates’) of a program or project at six key discussion points in its lifecycle by a team of independent reviewers.  We have responsibility for ongoing development of the Gateway Review process, co-ordinating Gateway Reviews and reporting the lessons learned from Gateway Reviews.

Refer to Gateway Review Process for more information.
 

Management of Government assets

Treasury has responsibility for privatisations, corporatisations, divestments and other changes in ownership arrangements affecting Government assets.

Last reviewed 1 December 2011