Su-Ann Tan Burke

Experience

Su-Ann is a qualified lawyer and procurement advisor with over 15 years’ experience advising Australian Government and regulated entities on complex procurements, contracts, commercial issues and risk management.

Su-Ann has enabled entities to achieve objectives in strategically significant and high‑risk programs, long-term service delivery contracts, panel arrangements and funding arrangements.

With a background in science and passion for problem solving, Su-Ann approaches client needs with a contextual lens. This begins with understanding the entity’s desired outcomes, working with constraints, and taking a pragmatic and risk-informed approach.

Su-Ann offers depth and breadth of experience across the full procurement and contracting lifecycle. This includes:

• procurement planning and approvals

• stakeholder consultation

• preparing approach to market documentation, including developing fit-for-purpose contracts and statements of work

• industry briefings

• evaluation, including planning, team management, value for money assessment and reports

• contract negotiation, including negotiation strategy, team briefings and preparation, negotiating issues with preferred tenderer(s), and reports

• producing the final contract and contract execution approvals

• contract management support, including contract variations, legal interpretation, and lessons learned workshops for future procurement planning

• major supplier transition.

Su-Ann is valued by clients for her down-to-earth approach, strategic thinking, sound project management, and ability to translate legal and commercial risks into practical risk mitigations that enable defensible decision‑making.