Supply of Sporting Equipment for NSW DET and other NSW Government Agencies - 0800200

DET is seeking to establish an Agreement for the supply of sporting equipment to NSW schools.

A secondary outcome is for the Agreement to be available for other government agencies such as Juvenile Justice, Corrective Services, and The Department of Sporting and Recreation to purchase sporting equipment.

The period of the contract will be up to three (3) years with two (2) x one (1) year options, depending on the RFT responses received exercisable at the discretion of the SCCB.

The Contractor(s) is required to provide a range of quality sporting equipment to accommodate schools, specifically for the Premiers Sporting Challenge
www.nsw.gov.au/Premiers_Sporting_Challenge.asp as follows:

i. Predetermined Sporting Equipment Kits
ii. Customised Sporting Equipment Kits
iii. Approved Individual Sporting Equipment Items

There is a preference to appoint one (1) supplier to service all of NSW. However, tenderers may tender for one region or a number of regions commensurate with the tenderers capacity, capability and compliance with the specification requirements for that region or regions.

The Tenderer must have the capacity/resources to deliver to DET schools in NSW. DET schools are divided into 10 geographical regions as listed below:

Metropolitan

• Northern Sydney
• Sydney
• South Western Sydney
• Western Sydney
• Newcastle
• Wollongong
  
  Regional and Rural
  
• New England
• North Coast
• Riverina
• Western NSW
• Hunter/Central Coast (excluding Newcastle)
• Illawarra and South East (excluding Wollongong)
  

Tender Briefing:

Location: NSW Department of Commerce,
McKell Building, Level 4 Conference Room
2-24 Rawson Place Sydney 2000

Date: Monday, 8th September 2008
Time: 2:30pm

NSW Regions: Central West, Far West, Hunter, Illawarra, Mid North Coast, Murray, Murrumbidgee, Northern, North Western, Richmond Tweed, South Eastern, Sydney

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.

0800200_RFTSummaryFile.pdf (698 KB)

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Documents available for this RFT (as issued on 18/08/2008):

Only a softcopy (electronic downloadable files, including one in Dmax Lite v5.1 format) of the RFT documentation is available.

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IMPORTANT - Please read all the following

The main RFT documentation is in a "**** . DTT" file format type

This file requires DMax Lite V5.1 software to open, read and also to prepare your tender.

Your tender response should include at least one file with a file extension of ****.DTR to be a conforming tender.

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Summary Document file:

Also provided is a file in ****.pdf format for Viewing Only that provides Summary information to assist in your decision whether to participate in the tendering process, without installing and purchasing DMax Lite software and licence for $110, or becoming a recorded prospective tenderer.

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Obtaining the RFT Documents:

First time visitors to this web site who wish to participate ie. download, will need to self-register on this web site to gain access to the RFT documents, or having access to acopy of the DMax software.

Download all files - which will include the following files:
*** . DTT - this is the main RFT documentation in a DMax Lite database format.
In addition there are some other files which are handy Guides and a Transmittal form for the tender - do not incorporate this in your DMax tender response file.
Send in the Transmittal form separately.

• A full soft copy of the RFT documents can be downloaded from this web site.
• You must download to your own computer all the files provided (including any addenda), by clicking on the blue DOWNLOAD A SOFT COPY - free link at the bottom of this page and following the on-screen instructions.
  
  

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Obtaining the required DMax Lite V5.1 software:

The RFT documents are made available in "* . DTT" format only. This format is specific to the software, 'DMax Lite', that is manufactured by 'DecisionMax Pty Ltd'.

Please note and act on the following -

To open the RFT main document file (ie the ***.DTT file) and to prepare your tender you will need to use the 'Dmax Lite' software.

If you do not already have a current and licenced copy of 'Dmax Lite' v5.1 software, a copy of the software can downloaded from this web site at no cost. Then the licence key to activate the software can be purchased and from this web site (fro $110) as part of your download process.
After you log-in and access the RFT more options will be presented to you relating to the software.

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Lodging a tender:

Your completed tender in the required software format MUST be lodged electronically via this RFT web page.
Click on the blue LODGE A RESPONSE link at the bottom of this page and follow the on-screen instructions.
As the tenderer you must be a registered user of this tendering web site.

Your tender MUST include at least one file in *.DTR format.

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Other PC requirements:
This web site has been optimised for the Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator web browsers. The minimum requirements are as follows - IE version 5.5 or later, Firefox 1 or later, Netscape Navigator Ver 4.7 or later all with Cipher Strength = 128bit.
Your web browser MUST be set to accept cookies. You will not be able to register, access the documents, or lodge tenders if cookies have not allowed.

The tenderer is responsible for the purchase, provision and installation of all necessary software