State-wide Groundwater Monitoring Program

⁠⁠⁠TasWater has a requirement for the provision of the State-Wide Groundwater Monitoring Program. TasWater is responsible for the operation and maintenance of 112 sewage treatment plants (STPs) across Tasmania. The STPs include lagoon based treatment systems and STPs with sludge drying pans. TasWater also manage a significant number of recycled water schemes (RWS) usually in rural areas on individual sites for each STP, however, there are considerable RWS in the Brighton, Clarence and Penna areas which supply a number of customers from one point source.

Altogether there are 44 STPs with groundwater bores, including STPs with RWS. There are plans for an additional 8 sites to have bores installed. There is also a significant RWS in the Clarence/Brighton area which has 85 bores on 31 sites.

Objectives:
The primary objectives this RFT are to seek tenders for the provision of the State-Wide Groundwater Monitoring Program:
- Monitor groundwater on an annual or bi-annual basis, site dependant, to determine potential contamination of watertable through leaking STP lagoons, sludge drying pans and/or RWS storage dams; and
- Monitor groundwater on an annual or bi-annual basis, site dependant, to determine potential contamination of the watertable through infiltration from the irrigation of recycled water to crops and/or pasture.

Further details are provided in the attached RFT document pack, please review all documents in the pack, including the Conditions of Tender, before submitting a response. All questions must be directed through the electronic on-line forum available on the Tenderlink site. The forum closes 4 days prior to the RFT closing time. No direct contact is to be made with any TasWater Representative.

Responses must be submitted electronically to the relevant Tenderbox by the closing time (2pm). Please allow sufficient time to up-load responses.