Tender Advertisement #1149887

Purpose:
The purpose of this project is to provide a consistent approach to the financial assessment criteria of the Austroads National Prequalification System for Civil (Road And Bridge) Construction and restore confidence in the mutual recognition process for road transport and traffic agencies.
The NPS classifies contractors who wish to tender for road and bridge construction contracts. The classification is based on the contractor's technical and managerial expertise, financial capacity and previous performance. The scheme is locally administered by the state and territory road agencies.
The NPS operates on the principle that all participating agencies use identical criteria and follow the same processes when undertaking assessments of technical capability and financial capacity to prequalify infrastructure construction company applicants. When identical criteria and processes are used, a company prequalified by one agency should automatically be entitled to equal prequalification by all other agencies. This is known as ‘mutual recognition’. Mutual recognition enables a company prequalified in one jurisdiction to apply for tenders, for which it is appropriately prequalified, in all other jurisdictions.
A consistent approach to the financial assessment criteria of the NPS will lead to greater efficiencies for road agencies and industry by eliminating the time and cost of duplicated financial assessments, minimising challenges to financial assessment decisions, and improving the ability for appropriately prequalified companies to tender in multiple jurisdictions.
Deliverables:
• Technical Report
• Updated text for the Financial Assessment section of the National Prequalification System Requirements
• Guidelines to assist assessors with decision making in relation to qualitative aspects of the financial assessments. It is expected the Guidelines will be in the form of a concise Practice Note
• Updated templates.
Also included as part of this tender are the following documents:
• Instructions for Authors of Austroads Publications which sets out the writing and formatting standards for research, technical and internal reports.
• Master Services Agreement outlining our Terms and Conditions. Please note that our Terms and Conditions are not negotiable.
All submissions are to be submitted as a PDF at a maximum size of 10MB.
All submissions are to include a completed Tender Proposal Coversheet.
The naming convention for submissions is: [your Company name] – [Project No.] – [any internal reference numbers].
All submissions are to include a statement as to how the respondent proposes to undertake the work, and keep to the agreed deadlines, given the current and proposed requirements and restrictions due to COVID-19.