Two-site contract reconciliation

Fremantle-Hillarys contract records AUD 14.448m expenditure

Published 8 August 2026 Publisher IMWO Region Asia Pacific Confidence Confirmed
Tenders WA DOT409421RFT contract values for the combined Fremantle and Hillarys jetty works

Tenders WA; exact DOT409421RFT contract values and common two-site scope, captured from the public contract page

Tenders WA records AUD 15.582 million original estimate, AUD 14.464 million revised estimate and AUD 14.448 million actual contract expenditure for DOT409421RFT. Its eleven published variation amounts net to minus AUD 1,117,808, exactly reconciling the original and revised estimates; actual expenditure is another AUD 16,122 lower. The owner separately described Fremantle Jetty 3 as an AUD 4.6 million project and Hillarys as an AUD 10 million project.

Eleven variation amounts reconcile original and revised values

Tenders WA publishes the common contract, supplier, competition, dates, contract values, eleven variation rows and actual-expenditure field. Transport WA publishes the two physical scopes, dated field evidence, completion statements and project-level cost statements. Annual-report capital-cost estimates remain dated accounting snapshots. Workforce references to 39 subcontractors across both sites and 18 subcontractor personnel at Hillarys do not identify subcontracting companies. Government records print the Global Trade Sales, GTS Australia and Gambetta Holdings labels without explaining their trade-name sequence.

A completed contract can still be miscounted when project and contract ledgers use different bases

The package delivered 45 floating berths at Fremantle and 115 pens across five Hillarys jetties. The variation total explains the contract-level movement from original to revised estimate, but the entries have no published scope description or site allocation. Two physical project records and one commercial contract preserve the dated values without assigning the variation reduction or final expenditure to either asset.

Evidence conclusion

Actual expenditure leaves the site price split unresolved

DOT409421RFT is one Open Advertisement contract with 14 submissions and Global Trade Sales (Gambetta Holdings Pty Ltd) as supplier. Eleven published variation lines total minus AUD 1,117,808, matching the difference between the AUD 15,582,213 original estimate and AUD 14,464,405 revised estimate. Actual expenditure of AUD 14,448,283 is AUD 16,122 below the revised figure. The variation rows provide periods, counts and amounts without scope descriptions or site allocations. Transport WA's AUD 4.6 million Jetty 3 and AUD 10 million Hillarys statements therefore remain project-level figures rather than an executed contract split. The 29 April 2025 to 28 April 2026 expenditure disclosure period is an accounting field, not a construction window. Fremantle completed in 2023; Hillarys' final stage completed in April 2024, after the contract page's 21 December 2023 final expiry date. That chronology needs an owner closeout explanation rather than an assumed delay or extension.

Outstanding evidence

  • Executed schedule of prices or owner site-level cost ledger
  • Meaning of the 2025-26 Actual Expenditure reporting period
  • Reason for the December 2023 contract expiry to April 2024 Hillarys completion interval
  • Practical-completion and acceptance dates for each site
  • Final cost, variations, retention and defect-closeout records
  • Scope, approval basis and site allocation for the eleven published variation entries
  • Named pontoon, piling, services and marine-plant lower tiers
  • Identity and workshare of the WA component manufacturers
  • Clear separation from the later Fremantle Jetty 1 contract

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