Request for Tender Native Title Legal Services Preferred Supplier Panel

⁠⁠⁠The Torres Strait Regional Authority (TSRA) is the principal Commonwealth Agency operating in the field of Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal affairs in the Torres Strait and Northern Peninsula Area. The TSRA’s enabling legislation is the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) Act 2005. The TSRA is the Native Title Representative Body for the Torres Strait region, supporting the native title rights of traditional owners and assisting 21 Prescribed Bodies Corporate.

The TSRA is seeking to establish a preferred supplier panel for the provision of Native Title legal services in the Torres Strait region. Suitably qualified legal firms are invited to tender for services supporting one or more of the following areas of law:
* Applications for the Determination of Native Title
* Indigenous Land Use Agreements
* Land Dispute Resolution
* Native Title Compensation Claims
* Registered Native Title Body Corporate Legal Issues
* Prescribed Body Corporate Support
* Future Acts
* General Litigation
* General Advice

Successful tenderers may be offered a standing offer contract to provide services.

Tender documentation can be obtained from the TSRA web site http://www.tsra.gov.au (see Opportunities / Tenders and Contracts) or copies can be requested by emailing tenders@tsra.gov.au. Submissions must address the Statement of Work attached to the Request for Tender document.

Tenders should be marked ‘Commercial-in-Confidence’ and submitted as an email attachment to tenders@tsra.gov.au. Alternatively tenders may be posted or couriered to:
Locked Tender Box
Torres Strait Regional Authority
PO Box 261
Thursday Island, QLD, 4875

Tenders close at 4:00 pm (Queensland Non Daylight Saving - UTC + 10) on Monday 21 August 2017.