Western Australia's Cost Indexation for Government Purchasing of Human Services

This document is a part of a set of three documents examining indexation in Western Australia. As such, readers should also consider the wider discussion contained in the following two documents created by the Centre for Public Value and designed to provide a more extensive description of the indexation models discussed herein and the problems associated with the current indexation method applied in Western Australia. The publications should be read together. They are:

Gilchrist, D. J. & Feenan, C., (2023), Challenging the Framework for Price Indexation in Western Australia’s Human Services, developed by the Centre for Public Value, UWA Business School, Perth, Australia.

Gilchrist, D. J. & Feenan, C., (2023), Human Services and Cost Indexation Methodologies in Australia, a report developed by the Centre for Public Value, UWA Business School, Perth, Australia.

We have also considered commonly applied indexation formulae and readers interested in a deeper analysis and understanding of this aspect of the study should review the second publication cited above particularly where we examine the processes, calculation, and challenges of indexation more thoroughly.