Total Apparel Management: - 0701004

For the purpose of this tender, Personal Protective Clothing is the name given to the special primary protective and duty wear garments that are designed to protect the fire fighter in the performance of their duties.

These items are:

Protective Ensemble - Structural (comprises protective coat and overtrouser)

Trouser - Duty Wear

Shirt - Duty Wear

Hood - Heat Protective

Coat - Wild Land

Ensemble - Community Fire Unit (comprises, coat, trouser, T Shirt)

See also Addendum No. 1

Personal Protective Equipment covers the category of items which are worn by the firefighter in conjunction with the protective garments.

These are also the managed items and are described below-

Boot, Firefighting - Structural

Boot, Community Fire Unit

Glove, Firefighting - Structural

Glove, Duty Wear General Purpose

Helmet, Firefighting - Structural

Helmet, Fiefighting - Multi Purpose

It is mandatory that the tenderers supply the entire range of products

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.

Z_RFT_0701004.pdf (381 KB)

• Standing Offer Notices:
  • 0701004

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Documents available for this RFT (as issued on 13/08/2007):

Only softcopy (electronic downloadable files, including those in Dmax Lite v5.0 format) of the RFT documentation is available.

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This documentation is in a ".DTT" format file named RFT0701004.DTT
It requires Dmax Lite v5.0 software to open and read and also to prepare and lodge a tender.

Summary Document:

There is a file in *.pdf format available for viewing only that provides information to assist in your decision whether to participate in the tendering process, without purchasing software or becoming a recorded prospective tenderer.

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Download all files - they will include the following file:
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• A full soft copy of the RFT documents can be downloaded from this web site.
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