Warehousing Services for Road Safety and Drug Education

The Department of Education’s (the Department) Road Safety and Drug Education (RSDE) Branch requires a service contract to be established for the storage, dispatch and reporting of road safety and drug education resources, with the following requirements:

1. Storage, ordering and state-wide dispatch of resources via a self-service, online ordering system that provides accurate monitoring and reporting capabilities.

2. Client access to the online ordering system, where the clients include all RSDE Branch staff and specified lists of teachers.

3. An accurate and timely dispatch system that delivers approximately 1,500 orders (annually and state-wide). Orders are of varying size and weight and requested at various (ad hoc) times, specified by each client.

4. All stock to be stored in identifiable lots on a project-by-project basis with a regular stocktake and inventory service. The estimated storage requirements are 125 cubic metres (or about 78 pallets of 1.5 x 1.02 x 1.06 m).

RSDE provides a range of teaching and learning materials for staff at early childhood centres, public and non-public schools and non-mainstream education and training services (agencies) across Western Australia (WA). There are approximately 190 different materials including items such as workbooks, learning materials, story books, banners, posters, brochures, handbooks, mascots and activity packs.