The contract’s value of $319,500 was incorporated in the $5.6 million budget set aside for the consultation process and works out at about a third of the value of the cost of the independent panel chairman Phillip Glyde’s predicted total of $912,800, for the initial evaluation of 160 days required work at a daily rate of $1541, and is less than the slated $336,600 set aside for consultation costs such as travel, accommodation and venue hire.
