Check an approach to market against the rules that apply
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Key facts
- Human involvement
- YellowClose supervision
- How AI is used
- Extract the draft approach-to-market headings and line them up against the rule headings the lawyer has taken from the applicable Commonwealth Procurement Rules.
- What the lawyer must review
- Open the rule cited on each row
- Reject a match that only shares a heading word
Rules that apply
The document starts from the task name. Change it if this piece of work is different.
The work product
Forum. Commonwealth procurement, unless the lawyer has named a state or territory regime
Produce. A coverage table against the lawyer’s rule list, with gaps marked “not found”.
Have ready. The draft approach to market; The rules PDF the lawyer has identified; The estimated value.
Example of the limit. A draft that never mentions the evaluation criteria is “criteria not found”, not “non-compliant” and not “fine”.
Stop and hand it back when
- Nobody has identified which version of the rules applies.
- The draft says the approach to market complies.
Sources for this task were checked on 2026-09-22.
Who does what
| Role | What they do |
|---|---|
| Assistance | Extract the draft approach-to-market headings and line them up against the rule headings the lawyer has taken from the applicable Commonwealth Procurement Rules. |
| Lawyer | Set the scope, supervise the work closely, verify every part relied on, resolve omissions and exceptions, and approve the exact output. |
Checklist
- Write down the version and why it applies, using Finance’s note.
- Record whether the estimated value meets the threshold in that version.
- Cite the rule paragraph for every row you mark as covered.
- Leave the compliance view with the lawyer.
Sources
- Department of Finance: Commonwealth Procurement Rules · 2026-09-22
- Commonwealth Procurement Rules, 17 November 2025 (PDF) · 2026-09-22
- Department of Finance: which Commonwealth Procurement Rules apply · 2026-09-22
Suggested working checks from the linked public sources. Read the source and confirm it applies to this forum and this date. The checks do not approve software or record that the work is done.