Bradfield City Centre Digital Telecommunications Opportunities – Expressions of Interest Invitations - WPCA000384

The WPCA is seeking expressions of interest from suitable businesses and/or consortia for five opportunities related to telecommunications assets and services (Opportunities)

The results of this EOI process will inform the WPCA’s decision to proceed to a final procurement stage for a single package or packages of opportunities involving a Request for Proposals (RFP). 

This EOI is an information gathering process in which the WPCA seeks to collect information in relation to five opportunities. These opportunities are summarised below with further detail available in the full suite of EOI documentation:

• Opportunity 1 – the operation and management of a telecommunications pit and pipe asset network;
• Opportunity 2 – the right to provide the first telecommunications fibre network within the pit and pipe network;
• Opportunity 3 – as a concurrent requirement in connection with Opportunity 2, the provision of Layer 2 Bitstream Services to support provision of high-speed broadband services to end users on the first telecommunications fibre network;
• Opportunity 4 – the right to lease, operate and fit out the reserved space for a Communications Centre; and
• Opportunity 5 – the right to manage a complete, precinct-wide network of poles, consisting of multi-function poles, and standard Council-approved light poles if required, to deliver mandatory street lighting and additional commercial services.

An Industry Briefing on this EOI will be held virtually at 3:00 PM on Thursday, 14 March 2024. Attendance is recommended but not mandatory. If you would like to attend, please RSVP with your confidentiality deed and who from your organisation will attend the event. Further details including online access details will be emailed to you.

Prospective tenderers will need to complete, sign and return the confidentially deed to Nidhi Agarwal at procurement@wpca.sydney (in accordance with the instructions in that deed) prior to being given the passcode to download the EOI documents.

Refer to Additional Details / Instructions

Open Tenders - An invitation to tender by public advertisement with no restriction placed on who may tender. Tenderers will normally be required to demonstrate in their tender that they have the necessary skills, resources, experience, financial capacity, and in some cases licences, accreditations, etc., to fulfil the tender requirements.

Confidentiality Deed Poll Bradfield City Centre Telecommunications Opportunities EOI.docx (172 KB)

https://www.tenders.nsw.gov.au/

Copies of the NSW Framework and NSW Code are available at https://buy.nsw.gov.au

All tenderers must comply with the NSW Government Procurement Policy Framework (NSW Framework), NSW Government Supplier Code of Conduct (NSW Code).

tender will be submitted through e-tendering website.

• The Procurement (Enforceable Procurement Provisions) Direction 2019 applies to this procurement

• A government agency may conduct negotiations with suppliers regarding the procurement

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