Comm Games minister takes shot at GOLDOC

Queensland's Commonwealth Games minister has scolded the Gold Coast organising committee for botching the announcement of the company to produce the opening and closing ceremonies.

US-owned production company Jack Morton Worldwide won the tender for the 2018 games ceremonies, drawing controversy and the combined ire of three shortlisted Australian companies, which immediately hit out at the tender process.

Games Minister Stirling Hinchliffe has taken a shot at organising committee GOLDOC and told them they must do much better in broadcasting and explaining key announcements as they happen.

"I have made it clear to GOLDOC that I wasn't happy with the way in which this matter became public," he said on the Gold Coast on Tuesday afternoon.

"It's most appropriate and most normal that you have a situation where the successful tenderers are announced and the reasons for their success are enunciated.

"This was a process where that didn't quite happen."

Mr Hinchliffe said GOLDOC chief executive Mark Peters agreed with the criticism and the games organisers would review their announcement processes.

The news broke a week before the scheduled announcement after the three unsuccessful bid teams - RBMC (Ric Birch and Michael Cassel), David Atkins Enterprises and JB World Events, headed by Julie Brooks - wrote a letter to Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk to register their "deep disquiet" at the tender process.

A major part of their fury is the appointment of a London-based former JMW staffer who they say played a key role in evaluating the shortlisted companies' applications.

They say the man, who worked for JMW for 10 years, had a conflict of interest that should have prohibited him from keeping his role.

The premier's department has referred the matter on for review but the games minister seriously doubted the decision to select JMW - which he stressed was an Australian-based company with an American ownership structure - would be overturned.

"I'm very confident ... that it's been a standard quality tender process that's been undertaken," he said.

Mr Hinchliffe denied JMW was the cheapest bidder as all tenderers applied under a fixed budget.