Tender Advertisement #1253684

PURPOSE:
The purpose of this project is to support Austroads members in their environmental and sustainability reporting, including specification and assessment of performance, and a consistent set of national and trans-Tasman metrics and sources of data to measure this performance.

SCOPE:
The scope of this project is to:
• To review and report on current Austroads members’ Environmental and Sustainability Reporting practices and obligations, including a review of the different KPIs, targets/criteria, terminology, and reporting periods currently in use by agencies and other organisations, both nationally and internationally
• To provide recommendations on the appropriate metrics, criteria, terminology, and reporting periods to use to measure Environmental and Sustainability performance across the transport sector, inclusive of public transport.
• To provide advice on how best to source the data for, or measure, each metric, including the identification of barriers to sourcing this data and recommendations to overcome them.
• To identify the existence (or lack thereof) of other industry standards or guidelines for Environmental and Sustainability reporting, and the extent to which each is in use across Australia and New Zealand by Austroads members specifically, and by other Government and industry organisations more generally.
• To conduct a gap analysis of Austroads members’ needs and scope for Environmental and Sustainability Reporting versus the existing Austroads Guidelines for Environmental Reporting, and provide guidance on if it should be updated or retired.
It is anticipated that this project will have linkages with other Government projects, initiatives and policies, including other existing Austroads guidelines. It is expected that the consultant will identify and analyse, as deemed necessary to satisfy the project scope and objectives, these additional standards, guidelines and policies in the context of Environmental and Sustainability Reporting across Australian and New Zealand.

DELIVERABLES:
• A project plan for use within the project including detailed defintion of topics in-scope vs out-of-scope
• A stakeholder consultation summary
• An Austroads research report

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.