Geoscience Australia (GA) intends to engage a service provider to provide an electronic Quality Management System (eQMS) for the GA Laboratory.

The GA Laboratory is uplifting its quality management system (QMS) to accommodate rapidly changing analytical demands and to provide better service and support for its clients and collaborators.

The current QMS is based on workplace applications such as Outlook, Excel, Sharepoint, Content Manager, and paper-based documents. The complexities of regulatory compliance such as ISO and NATA accreditation requirements are a challenge for the current system. It is also highly desirable to improve overall efficiency and effectiveness of QMS procedures across the GA Laboratory.

We wish to procure and implement an electronic QMS (eQMS) in the Laboratory, which helps the Laboratory streamline and optimise our processes to ensure consistent high-quality data or services and, create efficiencies to save time and resources by automating tasks and workflows.

Other Instructions:

For detailed information, the potential suppliers refer to the contents included in the attached ‘Access to Market’ document.

Conditions for Participation:

The Tenderer must be a legal entity recognised under Australian law at the Tender Closing Time. For the purposes of this RFT, a partner of a partnership who submits a Tender on behalf of a partnership, where that partnership is in existence at the Tender Closing Time, will meet this Condition for Participation.

The Tenderer must either:

a) hold all Valid and Satisfactory Statements of Tax Record required for its entity type by the Tender Closing Time; or

b) have all receipts demonstrating that all the necessary Statements of Tax Record as applicable to the Tenderer have been requested from the Australian Taxation Office by the Tender Closing Time and hold those Valid and Satisfactory Statements of Tax Record no later than 4 Business Days from the Tender Closing Time.

If it proposes to engage a subcontractor, the Tenderer must hold a Valid and Satisfactory Statement of Tax Record for any first-tier subcontractor that it proposes, as part of its Tender, to engage to deliver goods or services with an estimated value of over $4 million (GST inclusive).

Timeframe for Delivery:

May 2025 to April 2028

(with up to 2 further years available via options)

Address for Lodgement:

tenders@ga.gov.au