Australia Annex 7 - Note 2

For greater certainty:

a the Agreement does not apply to procurement funded by grants and sponsorship payments received from persons not listed in Annexes 1, 2 or 3;

b the Agreement does not apply to procurement by a procuring entity from another government entity;

c nothing in this Agreement precludes the procuring Party, or its procuring entities, from preparing, adopting or applying technical specifications required to protect sensitive government information, including specifications that may affect or limit the storage, hosting or processing of such information outside the territory of the procuring Party; and

d a procuring entity may use limited tendering procedures for unsolicited innovative proposals under Article XIII:1.