Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria Annual Report 2018-19

Information and Communications Technology (ICT) expenditure
For the 2018–19 reporting period, the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria had a total ICT expenditure of $1,469,000 as shown below.
($ thousand)
All operational ICT Expenditure
ICT expenditure relating to projects to create or enhance ICT capabilities
Business as usual (BAU) ICT expenditure Non-Business as usual Operational
Expenditure
(OPEX)
Capital
Expenditure
(CAPEX)
(Total incl. salaries)
(Total = Operational
Expenditure and Capital
Expenditure)
1,469 296 426 267
ICT expenditure refers to Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria’s costs in providing business-enabling ICT services within the current reporting period. It comprises Business As Usual (BAU) ICT expenditure
and Non-Business As Usual (Non-BAU) ICT expenditure.
Non-BAU ICT expenditure relates to extending or enhancing Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria’s current ICT capabilities.
BAU ICT expenditure is all remaining ICT expenditure, which primarily relates to ongoing activities to operate and maintain the current ICT capability.
Table 19: Details of individual consultancies $ thousand
Details of individual consultancies
Consultant Purpose of consultancy Start Date End Date Total
Approved
Fee (excl.
GST)
Expenditure
2018–9 (excl.
GST)
Future
Expenditure
(excl. GST)
Australian
Childhood
Foundation
Empirica
Consulting Pty Ltd
Halliday’s Business
Insights
Monkii
Tim Rob Don Dow
Votar Partners Pty
Ltd
To identify organisational
child protection strengths and
requirements against required areas
of compliance
To review the current financial
budgeting and planning processes,
and propose a series of changes to
current processes to help improve
the efficiency of the business and
drive increased profitability of Royal
Botanic Gardens Victoria retail
operations
Qualitative Workplace Assessment
focusing on collecting information
about culture, leadership,
collegiality and workplace
behaviour, as well as individual
insights relevant to the future of the
organisation.
To develop a Digital and Customer
Strategy with the primary objective
to generate more revenue and to
increase visitation to the Melbourne
and Cranbourne sites.
To assess the interactions between
visitors and Royal Botanic Gardens
Victoria staff and volunteers, and
provide recommendations for the
future interpretation, signage and
user experience strategy.
Review the various customer
systems in the organisation and
provide recommendations to
improve efficiency.
13/08/2018 4/12/2018 36,350 36,350 0
25/05/2018 25/06/2018 20,000 22,500 0
14/06/2019 30/06/2019 26,800 26,800 0
11/12/2018 30/04/2019 77,875 77,875 0
20/06/2019 31/08/2019 20,000 10,000 10,000
1/04/2019 30/09/2019 36,800 11,200 25,600
Total 217,825 184,725 35,600
In 2018–19 one consultant was engaged where the total fees payable to the individual consultant were less than $10,000. The total
expenditure incurred during 2018–19 in relation to this consultant was $1,000 (excluding GST).
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