People — Director
Jeremy Cummings
Jeremy works across contract formation, negotiation, performance and remediation, including complex technology and dispute-sensitive commercial matters.
Professional overview
Jeremy is a lawyer and commercial adviser whose Defence work covers procurement, contracting, contract performance and complex commercial issues. He supports contract formation, vendor negotiation, re-baselining, performance and remediation matters, including software, intellectual-property and technology arrangements where legal reasoning and delivery evidence need to remain aligned through each stage of delivery.
Jeremy Cummings also practises through Auxlaw, Auxiom Pty Ltd’s separately engaged legal practice.
Areas of focus
- 01 Contract formation and negotiation
- 02 Performance and remediation
- 03 Commercial risk
- 04 ASDEFCON and bespoke agreements
- 05 Software, intellectual property and technology contracting
Selected experience
His experience includes work on LAND 200 Tranche 2, CAF16, LAND 4140 Future Networks, the Defence Wide Area Network and Materiel Procurement Branch engagements.
- LAND 200 Tranche 2
Two-year contract remediation engagement across interlinked high-value contracts on an ACAT 1 project of interest — interpretation, compliance review and negotiation through to a resolved position with the vendors.
- CAF16
Coordinated the renegotiation of four interdependent sustainment contracts for air command and control, including procurement strategies, negotiation directives and negotiations with US vendors.
- LAND 200 Tranche 3 & LAND 4140
Tender documentation and a bespoke commercial framework supporting agile contracting across capability elements.
- Probity advisory
Probity advisor to LAND 1771 Phase 2, and external probity advisor to the Department of Health and Aged Care and DCCEEW.
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Laws
- Bachelor of Arts
- Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice
- Master of Laws
- Member, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
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