About this submission
This submission is made by Kitbag Consulting and KB Technology, an accredited Australian Early-Stage Innovation Company (ESIC) building digital capability in Australia, in response to the DTA's discussion paper on seller eligibility for coordinated contracting arrangements (CCAs). We provide views on Questions 2, 3, 4 and 5.
Closing remarks
The tier framework, the sovereignty scoring table, the Deed of Sovereignty, the reporting requirements and the Systems of Work procurement category proposed in this submission are not independent measures. They are a single argument made at five levels: that sovereignty is a legal and structural condition, not a contractual one; that the vendor's domicile determines the jurisdiction that follows them through the door; that operational logic is a sovereign asset that must be governed as such; and that the CCA framework is one of the most direct instruments available to make Australian capability the default rather than the exception.
Sovereignty is not a passive state. It can be lost through accumulated deference as surely as through any single decision. The decisions being made in procurement today will define the exposure Australian organisations carry for the next decade. The framework should be designed to find Australian capability and to keep it here.
