OVERVIEW OF GOODS/SERVICES
Queensland Rail Ltd (Queensland Rail) is one of Australia’s largest rail transport providers. As an integrated rail business with more than 150 years of operational experience, serving the freight, tourism and passenger markets, it provides safe passenger services within the Brisbane metropolitan area and key regional centres throughout the State of Queensland.
Queensland Rail is committed to keeping the community informed about any of its activities which may cause an impact or disruption.
Queensland Rail is looking to engage a contractor to provide print production (including folding) and distribution (letterbox drop) of community notifications to support its ongoing preventative maintenance program and project delivery throughout the South East Queensland and Regional rail networks.
The contractor, under the direction of Queensland Rail’s Infrastructure Project Communications team, will be required to print and deliver noise notices within the specified area and timeframe. On occasions, printing and delivery may be required in a timeframe of less than 24 hours if urgent works arise.
TENDER DOCUMENTS
Key tender documents such as “Scope of Work” are attached in “Section 3 - Here is the detail”.
PROCESS OVERVIEW
Ariba Sourcing, Queensland Rail’s tendering system, is the only tendering tool that Tenderers must use to submit their responses. Queensland Rail will NOT accept any physical responses or responses via the Queensland Government QTenders website.
Tenderers who have reviewed the key tender documents and wish to submit their responses via Ariba Sourcing must register their intent by emailing Kevin Huang, Senior Sourcing Specialist at kevin.huang@qr.com.au with the following details:
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Name of Tendering Organisation
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Name of Tender Representative
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Email Address (for the purpose of accessing Ariba Sourcing)
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Phone Number
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City
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Postal Code
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Existing active Queensland Rail Vendor Number if available
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Important Notice:
- Please double-check the above details, particularly the email address, before you email them through.
- Please email the details in a table with texts (as opposed to, for example, a picture) so we can copy and paste the texts.
Once your intent has been registered and you have been granted access to Ariba Sourcing, please refer to the attached document “Ariba Supplier Guide v1.2” in “Section 3 - Here is the detail” for instructions on how to navigate Ariba Sourcing.
ARIBA SUPPLIER SYSTEM SUPPORT
Once you have access to Ariba Sourcing and if you are encountering issues with the Ariba Sourcing system, you can request the Ariba Contact Centre to call you via the help icon in the top right-hand corner for assistance. Note this approach should only be taken when there is an issue with the system / accessing the system.
TENDER PROCESS TIMEFRAME
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Key Milestone
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Indicative Date
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Tender release
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10 November 2022
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Cut-off for acceptance of tender clarification questions
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1 December 2022 (5pm AEST)
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Tender close
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8 December 2022 (2pm AEST)
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Tender award
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2 June 2023
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Queensland Rail reserves the right to alter the above dates throughout the Tender Process should the need arise.
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