Responding to Question 12

Q. We are wondering how to respond to Question 12, which refers to contents of the Service specifications, when the Service Specifications have not yet been released?

A. This question is difficult for us to answer and perhaps is one you could send to the DoCS Q&A as well.

However, you will note from Appendix 2 of Part C of DoCS’s EIP Stage 2 EOI information that the Service Specification Guidelines are in draft form (being piloted in the EIP in the Blacktown and Bankstown areas). Section 2.6.3 of Part A of the package also includes reference to these guidelines.

Appendix 2 indicates that the draft of these guidelines have been provided to ‘short-listed applicants for reference’ and also they are ‘not meant to prescribe content for their response to the EOI’. So if your agency is a lead agency, then you should have a copy of the draft and if you are a partner agency, then perhaps you could ask your consortium’s lead agency for a copy to assist you to complete your input to Q 12 of the EOI. One possible strategy could be to develop your response to Q 12, taking into account the draft of these Service Specification Guidelines, but putting a proviso that you may need to make modifications to your strategies for ensuring your service model well meet the expectations/requirements of the EIP model, once the final of the EIP Service Specifications are released by DoCS.