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62 FROM THE SOURCE GEORGIA COLLINGWOOD & GAVIN CAMPBELL
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with Estate and Infrastructure Group. We want to continue to develop that strong relationship and to lean further into the maritime and land domains through providing solutions to CASG. We provide asset management and maintenance services for Army through our Defence Maintenance and Support Services Contract with Joint Logistics Command, and we are keen to lean further into the brigades by provid- ing these services on behalf of the OEMs within training and operations to enable a more efficient service.
ADM: What do you see as the biggest opportunities for your company on the horizon?
GEORGIA: We are looking to provide more capabilities in CASG projects. The Ventia business provides services to more than 10,000 works sites across Australia supporting Defence, Critical Infrastructure, Health and Education, Mining, Oil and Gas and more. Our breadth and depth mean we can offer capabilities to Defence and lessons learned through the services we provide to other sectors.
ADM: Has COVID adversely affected your company’s business?
GEORGIA: Fortunately, not. We have been able to maintain service delivery for all our Defence clients. Not without some fantastic and creative work by some of our teams to amend how we deliver services and with the support of our Safety Health Environment and Quality teams. And through the Defence Economic Stimulus Works Program we were able to find work for around 600 new and existing vendors that otherwise would have suffered greatly during COVID and probably closed their doors.
ABOVE: Ventia’s legacy company Broadspectrum was the first services organisation in Australia to have a registered Reconciliation Action Plan.
LEFT: Ventia’s SourceZone plant.
ADM: And are you personally enjoying Land Forces? GEORGIA: I joined Ventia only a few weeks ago – six weeks, in fact, so I’m new to the role. It's been a big learning curve. The culture of the organisation is fantastic, second to none, and what I really like about Land Forces is that everyone we’ve spoken to has been keen to engage with Ventia. Of course, Ventia is really keen to engage with everyone, from the primes right down through to the SMEs.
ADM: Does Ventia have a Reconciliation Action Plan, and what does it involve?
BOTH: Yes. In 2009, our legacy company, Broadspectrum, became the first services organisation in Australia to have a registered Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP). After Ventia acquired Broadspectrum in 2020, Reconciliation Australia endorsed our RAP as “Broadspectrum – a Ventia Company Reconciliation Action Plan”.
Our RAP holds elevate status which means we have a proven track record of embedding effective RAP initiatives, have a strong strategic relationship with Reconciliation Aus- tralia and actively champion initiatives to empower Aborigi-
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