MFA and Initiative’s Mat Baxter scold payment for tender documents

Initiative chairman Mat Baxter has labelled the $80 fee to access the pitch documentation for a World Vision media tender, “exactly the sort of bad behaviour that needs to disappear from our industry”.

Baxter’s comments on a LinkedIn post come as industry leaders express concern about the precedent that could be set by the $80 fee to access tender documents for World Vision Australia’s media pitch. It was reported yesterday that World Vision has placed the account out to tender via the third-party platform Procurement Australia, with the access fee attached to access the document.

A spokesperson for World Vision Australia, the non-governmental organisation, commented yesterday that none of the money flows directly to World Vision, rather this being the standard charge levied by Procurement Australia.