Tender Advertisement #1492052

Background:

Austroads is the association of Australian and New Zealand transport agencies. Austroads provides authoritative, practical and impartial advice, information, tools and services to our members and a range of other key stakeholders across government, industry and communities. Austroads aims to support the safe, efficient, reliable and sustainable movement of people and products to achieve societal benefits.

Austroads is developing a national approach to establish a secure and interoperable mobile driver licence (MDL) (also called digital driver licence) and other like credentials by:
• Developing a Digital Trust Service that will allow cross jurisdictional verification of credentials by relying parties.
• Developing strong security standards for all issuers, credential holders, wallet providers, relying parties and its own trust service.
• Working with national and international providers of credentials to ensure trust through the application of good, governance, security, privacy and interoperability standards and methods.
• Developing a nationally scalable and supported solution that meets legislative, regulatory and best practice standards for information and cyber security management.
• Establishing a responsive and resilient operating model that takes into consideration effective lifecycle management of its platforms, products, integration, data and PKI.

Scope:

Austroads has engaged the market to procure and deliver three capabilities, they are:
1. A Digital Trust Service: where the public encryption keys from issuing authority certificate authorities (IACA) will be registered and accessible nationally for all relying parties.
2. Public Key Infrastructure as a Service (PKIaas): Where national and international policy compliant encryption services are available to be procured by all jurisdictions.
3. National Exchange of Vehicle Driver Information System (NEVDIS) Populated Verifiable Credential platform: Where using the national exchange to verify digital licences, Austroads will develop a secure digital credential onboarding process to OEM wallet providers.

Also included as part of this tender are the following documents:
• Writing & Format Requirements for 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].