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Invitation to Tender: QRP-23-88 - ICT Architecture Capability Partner

OVERVIEW OF SERVICES

Queensland Rail is an integrated passenger and rail infrastructure business that provides commuter, long distance and tourist passenger rail services across the State of Queensland, Australia. Queensland Rail’s Regional Network and Freight product provides rail access for freight operators and other Queensland Rail supply chain customers, to enable the transport of resources and general freight across the state. Queensland Rail employs more than 7,300 people (headcount) and has total assets valued at $7.8 billion and the network extends more than 6,600 kilometres across the state.   

Queensland Rail has an established architecture practice who are responsible for the overall governance of ICT architecture within Queensland Rail. The imminent commencement of a 10-year digital transformation journey and the acknowledgement that architecture needs to take a more prominent role in the design and build of solutions, as well as strategy and investment decisions, has created a need for additional architecture capabilities to augment the internal existing team.

Queensland Rail is seeking to establish a Panel of pre-qualified Suppliers for the ongoing provision of Architecture capability. These will generally be short term engagements based on demand to augment internal Architecture capability as required to meet adhoc business demand.

The Supplier will be expected to demonstrate:

Capacity and depth of talent pool including bench strength, employee tenure and experience.

Organisational resource stability through employee retention strategies and programs.

A flexible and scalable resourcing approach.

Organisational Management and Assurance Services.

Competitive pricing via rate cards.

References and financial viability. 

PROCESS OVERVIEW

1. Tenderers who wish to access the tender documents must have a SAP Ariba network account and register the account to do business with Queensland Rail to enable visibility of your Ariba profile.To register, please refer to the Ariba Registration of Company Profile guide.

You must also then register interest by emailing the Contact Officer (luke.williams-green@qr.com.au) providing the following details:

a. Name of Tendering Organisation

b. Ariba Network ID (ANID)

c. ABN

d. Name of Tender Representative

e. Email address of Tender Representative

f. Phone number

Queensland Rail will only accept tender responses submitted via the Ariba Sourcing system.

For this Tender (QRP-23-88), the information uploaded on QTenders is not all the Tender information, however it is enough information for the suppliers / interested tenderers to determine whether the scope of works is suitable for their company profile. If a company is interested, please follow the above mentioned steps.

2. 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.

3. Refer to the attached document Ariba Guide for Suppliers for instructions on how to navigate Ariba Sourcing (once your interest has been registered).

All communication must be sent through to the nominated Queensland Rail Contact Officer.

TENDER PROCESS TIMEFRAME

The anticipated timeframes following the Tender release are:

• Cut-off for Acceptance of Clarifications – 11:00 AEST 11 August 2023

• Closing Date of Tender - 16:00 AEST 16 August 2023

• Evaluation Process – August - September 2023

• Estimated Award Date – September 2023

Queensland Rail reserves the right to alter the above dates throughout the Tender Process should the need arise.

COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL

All communication must be sent through to the nominated Queensland Rail Contact Officer

If there are no documents listed in this section, please refer to Section 1 Tender Overview.

Documents can not be downloaded once Tender has closed.