Traffic Management Panel

Queensland Rail Limited ("Queensland Rail"), with some 8,000 kilometres of standard and narrow gauge railway track, 6,000 employees and assets of $5.1 billion, is one of Australia’s largest rail Traffic Management providers. Queensland Rail services 211 stations with a fleet of 189 passenger trains, carrying over 170,000 passengers to work, home, events and other destinations each day.

Queensland Rail is an integrated rail business with more than 140 years of operational experience, serving the freight, tourism and passenger markets. It provides fast, safe and comfortable passenger services in the Brisbane metropolitan area and between key regional centres throughout Queensland.

Queensland Rail believes in strategic procurement, meeting its need for works in a way that achieves value-for-money on a whole-of-life-basis, generating benefits for all stakeholders. Queensland Rail considers the social and economic consequences of its works and its Contractor’s capacity to address these consequences.

This Tender addresses the procurement process for establishing a Traffic Management Panel that can meet Queensland Rail’s business requirements for ad hoc Traffic Management tasks throughout Queensland.

Objective of Panel

The objective of establishing the panel is to ensure the availability of pre-approved service providers that can carry out specific Services promptly as and when required under an agreed rate structure, eliminating the need to seek quotes for each Traffic Management task.

Queensland Rail believes that utilising a pre-approved panel of Contractors will achieve reliability and consistency in the manner in which work is undertaken and drive time and commercial savings..