Instead, the territory government has confirmed it will publicly release an independent review into Procurement ACT that was undertaken last year.

Opposition Leader Elizabeth Lee called for the review into all procurements after the ACT's Integrity Commissioner suggested probity issues were endemic.

Last month the Commissioner made the extraordinary step of calling for the construction industry to come forward about any improper conduct in ACT government procurement processes.

"Canberrans deserve to know how their money is being spent and that they are getting value for money [and] not simply being used as pawns in a political coalition by Labor and the Greens to look out for each other," Ms Lee said.

"We must have more transparency now and that should start with the immediate, independent audit of ACT government procurements."

Ms Lee presented the motion to the territory's Legislative Assembly on Thursday afternoon. Earlier in the month, the Opposition Leader also called for the review in a letter to the Chief Minister.

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But Special Minister of State Chris Steel said a review of all procurements in the past five years would be resource intensive.

"Undertaking a full audit of all ACT government procurements over the past five years would be a substantial undertaking. There are generally over 1000 notifiable contacts valued at $25,000 or more entered into across the ACT government each year," Mr Steel said.

"Documents for each procurement would also need to be manually examined for the information requested.

"The significant investment of time staffing resources and costs required to undertake this task would be unlikely to deliver a comparable level of benefit in improving human outcomes."

Instead, Mr Steel said that a review of Procurement ACT from 2021 would be tabled in the Legislative Assembly. This review was independent and was commissioned by the ACT government.

There has been a spotlight on ACT government's procurement processes since a damning Auditor-General's report into an expansion of Campbell Primary School found serious issues with the way the tender was handled.

The procurement process for an upgrade of the Campbell Primary School campus lacked probity and tenderers were not dealt with fairly, impartially and consistently, the audit found.

Mr Steel's amended motion noted that the ACT government had made improvements to procurement frameworks since the Campbell Primary School tender process.

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