Background
Room to Run Pty Ltd (ABN 46 125 524 414) is the incorporated entity of James (Jim) Box (ABN 74 059 946 858). The company was incorporated in 2007. However since 1992, Jim Box had previously provided probity and procurement advisory services under Industrial Supplies Office (Queensland) Ltd where Jim was the company Managing Director and principal probity advisor and probity auditor.
For over 30 years Jim Box has had extensive experience in major industrial and development projects and procurement in both the government and private sectors; and formerly was head of a major equipment procurement branch in Department of Defence.
The company through its Principal has extensive expertise in probity and procurement consulting services, in particular, advice, audits, investigations, training, and documentation. In addition to procurement activities, the services support a wide range of Grants, Funding Arrangements, Sponsorships, and Community Consultation programs.
Clients
Government
Around 90% of all assignments have been for state, federal, and local government departments, agencies and business units, including government owned enterprises and statutory bodies. In particular these have been government organisations in:
- Education
- Health
- Community Safety
- Emergency services
- Community services
- Power, water, and utilities
- Works
- Workers Compensation
- Transport
- Main Roads
- Procurement services
- Information technology
- Administrative services
- Environment
- Lands
- State Development
PRIVATE
Services to Private Sector organisations have included:
- Mining and resources corporations
- Engineering companies including multinationals
- Financial services corporations, organisations and institutions
- Aid program services
- Small and medium enterprises, particularly in supplier development
Expertise
Experience
- Collaborate with fellow architects.
- Showcase your projects.
- Experience the world of architecture.
- Industrial equipment
- Information Technology equipment
- Information technology services
- Hospital and medical equipment
- Building and Construction minor works to very large Major Works
- Health services
- Aeromedical and rescue services
- Legal services
- Professional business services
- Land acquisition and development
- Transport vehicles and machinery
- Transport passenger and freight services
- Passenger, commercial, and emergency vehicles
- Aircraft
- Aviation parts and services
- International Aid programs
- Financial services
- Marine craft and equipment, and marine services
- Community consultation initiatives
- Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) projects in construction and technology
- Public Private Partnerships
- Technology acquisition and development (wide range of technologies and science)
- Property services
- Environmental equipment and services
- Infrastructure and property maintenance and trade services
- Mining site and equipment systems
Consulting Services
- Probity advisor
- Probity auditor
- Probity assessments and opinion
- Probity investigations
- Probity and procurement risk analysis
- Procurement advisor
- Procurement documentation development
- Contract assessments and investigations
Training Services
- Probity and ethics training workshops
- Probity appreciation briefings and seminars
- Probity master classes
- Procurement staff development workshops and seminars
- Conference presentations
Grants and Funding Arrangements
- Education programs and services
- Child education and care programs
- Indigenous health and welfare services
- Youth justice services
- Health initiatives
- Social housing programs
- Disability services
People
Jim Box is the Principal of Room to Run Pty Ltd, providing consulting services in probity, procurement, and mediation to the government and private sectors. He was formerly a Chief Executive Officer in industry for 21 years where he worked with sourcing capability for Australian major industrial and construction projects; and previously a Lieutenant Colonel in the Australian Army. Professionally he was an explosives engineer.
Jim has considerable experience in public and private sector projects, procurement, and supply chains, and is the co-author of the textbook, ‘Probity and Managing Procurement: how to avoid corrupting the process’ published by Lexis Nexis Butterworths, 2007. He is also former editor of the supply industry journal, ‘Australian Purchasing & Supply’; and author of the Probity Practitioner Handbook.
His areas of probity expertise are described on this website.
Jim provides a full range of probity services as a practitioner. He has conducted Probity training courses and workshops, including the Probity Services Accreditation Courses for the Institute of Arbitrators and Mediators Australia (IAMA), Resolution Institution Institute, University of Canberra Australian centre for Financial & Economic Compliance, and others across Australia, and also conducts short courses and seminars in probity management, and specialist areas of procurement. See Training under Services.
He has been an international conference speaker on subjects of probity, procurement, contract issues, engineering supply matters, and Global Supply Chains.
He is a qualified and skilled Mediator, and is a Justice of the Peace (Qualified) in Queensland with over 32 years practical experience as a JP.
For over 15 years he was a member of the Queensland Government’s Procurement Council and Chair for around 4 years. He has been an adviser to the Queensland Manufacturing Leaders Group, member of various industry reference groups and committees, and established the Queensland Government’s first Middle East Trade Office in 2004, working with representatives from Victoria, New South Wales, the Commonwealth, South Australia, and Western Australia.
With over 40 years experience in industry and government, he holds tertiary qualifications in Management from Oxford University, and in Technology from the Royal Military College of Science (now under Cranfield University, UK). He also holds undergraduate qualifications in management and technology.
Jim is co-author of the textbook “Probity and Managing Procurement: how to avoid corrupting the process” with retired Judge Michael Forde, with whom he continues to collaborate on contemporary probity practice and related law. Michael Forde also has been co-presenter in some training courses, as has been former Australian Government Solicitor, Gary Power.
Jim is also the author of a Probity Services Practitioners Handbook of over 180 pages, and used by probity, procurement, project, and legal practitioners as a core reference text for probity practice, and to complement the Textbook. It is published currently in Edition 13. The Handbook is used in procurement and probity training and workshops, including probity services accreditation courses and other advanced probity training.
He also is the author of the Evaluation Methods Guide, also used as a reference to optional methods for tender evaluation by procurement, project, legal, and probity practitioners.