• Aims and Objectives

• Members

• Meetings

• Projects

• Timeline

 

Aims and Objectives

The Contractor Records Working Group will provide coordination between CAARA members on the review and update of the principles of CAARA Policy 13: Recordkeeping Issues associated with Outsourcing and Privatisation of Government Functions. In general, these principles relate to planning, ownership, control, disposal, access, storage and contract completion with regard to outsourced and privatised government functions and the records created, captured and maintained as a result of this activity.

The Group aims to:

•  Collaborate in the review and update of Policy 13
•  Exchange information on records management practices with regard to outsourcing, privatisation, public and private partnerships and non-government organisations within different jurisdictions
•  Develop a revised statement of recordkeeping principles for outsourced, privatised and shared government functions
•  Articulate CAARA’s expectations of best practice record keeping in relation to contractor records
•  Research currently available working and published papers about contractor records
•  Develop and recommend particular guidelines, standards and statements of principle for CAARA endorsement and utilisation throughout Australasia in relation to contractor records.

Members

The Working Group comprises of the following representatives of CAARA members. 

 

Meetings 

 

The Working Group will meet once a month via teleconference, with one of its meetings timed to coincide with the annual conference of the Australian Society of Archivists or the Records Management Association of Australia.

The Working Group first met via teleconference in May 2006.

Projects 

The Working Group is responsible for the following projects:

 

Project Definition

To review and update CAARA Policy 13: Recordkeeping issues associated with outsourcing and privatisation of government functions. 

Project Principles

•   Foster communication and collaboration between the members of the working group

•   Foster consistent approaches among CAARA authorities on records principles

•  Target the information needs of record managers in government agencies in relation to contractor records.

Project Scope

The following work is within scope of this project:

•  Review and update of the CAARA statement of principles on outsourced and privatised records of Policy 13

•  Collaboration with other jurisdiction records and archival authorities

•  Publication on the CAARA website

•  Definitions relevant to appropriate legislation and recordkeeping with respect to contractor records.

The following work is possibly within scope of this project:

•  The construction of generic contract clauses relevant to the principles of CAARA Policy 13 (to be determined by the working group at the completion of Stage 1 of the project).

The following work is out of the scope of this project:

•   Training in the Management of Contractor Records.

•  Jurisdiction specific principles on Contractor Records.

•  Legal review of generic contract clauses by a law firm with Australia / New Zealand expertise

Timeline

The group’s operations began in May 2006 and are anticipated to be completed in March 2007.