RFT Freight and Transport including Couriers Services - 1. 2021_T19 Freight and Transport Services

NSW RFS, NSW SES and NSWPF all have transport and freight requirements.  Instead of flooding the market with multiple tenders, all 3 agencies agreed to consolidate requirements and go to market in a joint tender, albeit with their own unique specifications.

All agencies will be parties in this tender and each Agency, as Principal, may enter into an agreement/deed of Standing Offer with the successful applicant/s.

The tender will be broken down into 9 categories that are specific to fleet and driver requirement or service delivery mechanism and parameters.

1 eParcel

2 Courier

2b Courier of Contaminated items

3 Point to Point

4 General Freight

5 Hot Shot(HST)/dedicated linehaul

6 Specialist

7 Freight Forwarding

8 Internal and External Mail Service

Vendors are invited to respond to as many or as few categories as meets their capabilities.

NSW Regions: Far North Coast, Mid North Coast, New England, Central Coast, Hunter, Cumberland/Prospect, Nepean, Northern Sydney, Inner West, South East Sydney, South West Sydney, Central West, Orana/Far West, Riverina/Murray, Illawarra, Southern Highlands
States and Territories: ACT, NT, QLD, SA, TAS, VIC, WA

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.

Please note due to system limitations, pricing response documents and sample agency agremments are attached in the subsequent addendum to this RFT - Addendum 1 and Addendum 2

Documents included in this tender pack include, 

Document	Description	Agency
1. 2021_T19 RFS Freight and Transport Services	Tender Conditions	All Agencies
1aa. RFS Statement of Requirements	NSWRFS Statement of Requirements	NSWRFS
1ab. SES Statement of Requirements	NSWSES Statement of Requirements	NSWSES
1ac. NSW Police Force Specifications - Internal Mail, Courier & Other Services v.1.4 Final	NSWPF Statement of Requirements	NSWPF
1b.Transport Hub - Spoke template	All Agency Locations and relevant addresses	All Agencies
2. 2020 Aboriginal Participation Plan Template (To be included in Tenders)	Additional Information	All Agencies
2. 2020 SME Participation Plan Template (To be included in Tenders over $3m)	Additional Information	All Agencies
3. All Agencies Response document v1.1	Complete - FOR YOUR RESPONSE	All Agencies
4a. Pricing Schedule NSWRFS	Complete - FOR YOUR RESPONSE	NSWRFS
4b. Pricing Schedule NSWSES	Complete - FOR YOUR RESPONSE	NSWSES
4c. Pricing Schedule NSWPF	Complete - FOR YOUR RESPONSE	NSWPF
5a. Standard-Long-Form-Supply-Agreement (NSWRFS)	NSWRFS sample agreement	NSWRFS
5b. Standing Offer Head Agreement - Non-Panel Arrangement (NSWSES)	NSWSES sample agreement	NSWSES
5c. Master Services Agreement (NSWPF)	NSWPF sample agreement	NSWPF

Addendum 3. A Tender Briefing will be held on the date, time as indicated below. It is mandatory for companies wishing to reply to this tender to attend via Teams. Names of persons attending the Tender briefing must be emailed to the NSW RFS Contracts, Contracts@rfs.nsw.gov.au , up to 3 days prior to the briefing

Date	9th March 2022
Time	10 am to 11am
Platform	MS Teams
RSVP with Company Name, attendees names and email addresses to be emailed by 6th March 2022 to	Contracts@rfs.nsw.gov.au

 

Lodgement of responses will only be accepted via eTendering

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

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

Yes

Department Agencies