Transport Asset Holding Entity of New South Wales / Emergency Busses - WS15519A

RailCorp is inviting Proposals for the formation of a Panel of operators to provide Emergency Bus Services (“the Service”) to the Corporation.  These bus services are required to replace or supplement train services in the event of train or infrastructure breakdown. 

The Panel is planned to commence on 1 May 2010 and continue until 30 April 2013. This period may be extended for 2 further period of 2 years, plus 2 further periods of 12 months (total period of up to 7 years) at the sole discretion of the Corporation.

The RFP covers the CityRail passenger rail network bounded by Nowra, Scone, Dungog, Lithgow, Bathurst and Goulburn.  The overall area for the provision of the Service, is divided into smaller geographical areas as detailed in Part C of the Specification.  Rates for provision of the Service may be submitted for any or all of the areas detailed and must remain valid for the period of the Panel stated herein.

NSW Regions: Hunter, Illawarra, Murrumbidgee, Northern, North Western, 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.

In order to gain access to the Request For Proposal documents, Tenderers are required to register their interest by sending an email to procurement@railcorp.nsw.gov.au and include the following:

1) Event Title,
2) RFT  ID ,
3) Organisation Name,
4) ACN/ ABN,
5) Contact Name,
6) Organisation/Contact Postal Address,
7) Contact Email Address,
8) Contact Phone No

Tenderers using Apple’s Macintosh computers should use Firefox as a web browser to access the tender documents over the internet, once access is provided.