Light Helicopters: - 0701462

Department of Environment and Climate Change (DECC) is seeking Tenders for the supply of a light utility Helicopter.
The leased Aircraft will be available for operations under DECC's AOC and will be crewed by DECC's aircrew during the contract period.
The Aircraft will be based at Bankstown Airport, Sydney, NSW.
The Contractor must carry out all necessary scheduled and unscheduled maintenance on the Aircraft to ensure it remains in airworthy condition and serviceable and ensure compliance with all relevant regulatory and manufacturer requirements.
The Contractor must guarantee the exclusive availability of the Aircraft to DECC during the contract period.

The contract period is date of acceptance to 30 June 2010, with options to extend for a further two (2) x one (1) year periods.

DECC will guarantee a minimum payment of 360 hours per full financial year, with a pro-rata number of hours for less than a full financial year. Although DECC only guarantees 360 hours within each 12 month period (full financial year) from the start of the contract, the actual hours used may be greater. In this case the Contractor will be paid for each hour flown.
The average hours flown in recent years is around 480 hours per year. However, this is based on historical data only where many factors can affect the hours flown; therefore this is an indicative figure only.

The Aircraft will be used for a wide range of aviation operations carried out by DECC including firefighting or other emergency incident operations as well as routine operations and the following specific aviation roles: external load carrying, aerial shooting, winching/hover entry/exit, low level observation and aerial incendiary/infrared camera operations.

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.

RFT Summary Documents.zip (330 KB)

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Documents available for this RFT (as issued on 26/11/2007):

Only a softcopy (ie electronic downloadable files, including one in DmaxLite 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 DmaxLite 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.

Summary Document file:

Also provided are files in ****.pdf format for Viewing Only that provides Summary information extracted from the tender to assist in your decision whether to participate in the tendering process, without purchasing Dmax Lite software 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 a new copy of the 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 Note form for the tender - do not incorporate this Form 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) 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 be purchased and downloaded from this site 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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