Australian Industry Participation Authority

The Australian Industry Participation (AIP) Authority is established by the Australian Jobs Act 2013 (Cwlth). The main object of the Act is to support the creation and retention of Australian Jobs by requiring AIP plans for major projects to ensure Australian entities have full, fair and reasonable opportunity to bid for key goods and services for the project. The AIP Authority's role is to evaluate and approve AIP plans for major projects with capex of $500 million or more, as well as to monitor compliance reporting against approved AIP plans. The AIP Authority is appointed by the Minister. The current part-time acting AIP Authority is a Senior Executive Service departmental officer.