Hensleigh Creek Road Slip Repair

⁠⁠⁠Request for Tender (RFT) for: Hensleigh Creek Road Slip Repair

Tender/Reference number: T2023-0458

Issue Date: 26 October 2023

Place for lodgement: http://www.tenders.vic.gov.au (Buying for Victoria)

Closing Time and Date: Thursday 9 November, 2023, at 2:00 pm local time

Project Manager: Luke Dolan – Regional Project Officer

Telephone: 0473 192 080

Email: luke.dolan@delwp.vic.gov.au

The opportunity

The Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action (DEECA) is responsible for maintaining the road network in the forest estate. DEECA utilises a road classification system to describe standards and maintenance regimes.

The DEECA Strategic Fire Road Network (SFRN) is used to control and prevent bushfire, by utilising these roads as major fire breaks or burn boundaries in emergency situations and when conducting fuel reduction burns. As a result of the 2019-20 East Gippsland Bushfires, the forest estate was severely damaged and requires repair.

The Snowy recovery team was formed in the wake of the 2019-2020 East Gippsland Bushfires and

continues to perform works relating to the bushfires and some severe rain events which have followed.

Much of the damage sustained continues to affect our roading network where we are stabilising and repairing these damages as they arise.

The Department is seeking responses to this Request for Tender (RFT) T2023-0458 for the provision of minor works – Hensleigh Creek Road Slip Repair.

Structure of RFT

This RFT consists of the following parts:

• Introduction – contains an overview of the opportunity presented in, and the objectives of, this RFT.
• Part A – Conditions of Tendering sets out the rules applying to the RFT documents and to the Tendering Process. These rules are deemed to be accepted by all Tenderers and by all persons having received or obtained the RFT.
• Part B – Specification describes the Goods and/or Services in respect of which the Department invites Tenders from interested persons.
• Part C – Proposed Contract contains the terms and conditions in compliance with which the Department desires the Goods and/or Services set out in Part B to be provided.
• Part D – Tenderer’s Response specifies the information to be provided in a Tender and may also specify any information to be provided by a Tenderer by other means. Part D may include templates to be completed and included in a Tender.

RFT Objectives

The Department is seeking responses to this RFT for a slip repair on Hensleigh Creek Road.

The Department’s specific requirements in relation to the Goods and/or Services are set out in Part B of this RFT (Specification).

In issuing this RFT, the Department seeks to identify a Tenderer who is:

1. able to provide the Goods and/or Services required by the Department in the manner set out in the Specification;
2. able to demonstrate a commitment and ability to working in collaboration with the Department over the term of any agreed contractual period to continuously seek improvements in value, efficiency and productivity in connection with the provision of the Goods and/or Services; an
3. prepared to work with the Department to continue to identify opportunities for improvement in the quality and level of service provided to the Department, for the mutual benefit of both the Department and the Tenderer

Note to Tenderers: Only Tenderers capable of providing all of the Goods and/or Services and complying in full with the conditions set out in this RFT should submit a Tenderer’s Response