Alternative Coach Providers Panel

SCOPE

Queensland Rail is calling tenders for Queensland Rail Alternate Customer Transport Services (ACTS). The purpose of this tender is to establish a panel of long distance coach providers that Queensland Rail may from time to time call upon to provide ACTS. Where possible it is Queensland Rail’s intention that ACTS should replicate as near as possible the service delivery standards of the scheduled long-distance train.

Suppliers are invited to submit an offer(s) in response to Queensland Rail’s Request for Offer (RFO) QRP-19-200.
Panel Contract term is five years.
The Specifications, Tender Questions (business requirements), Draft Supply Contract Terms, applicable modules and schedules and the non-functional documents are available from the Ariba Sourcing system.

HOW TO TENDER:
For this Tender (QRP-19-200), please read the attached Ariba Guide to Suppliers. From there, the Tenderer will need to determine if they would like to proceed to a Tender response.
Tenderers who wish to download all documents and submit a response, please follow the below instructions:

1. Tenderers will be required to register to the SAP Ariba Sourcing system by sending an email to the nominated Contact Officer ([email hidden]). When requesting to register, kindly provide the following details: business email address, contact name, phone number, business name/entity and address. For any Ariba Sourcing system queries, please contact [email hidden].

2. If the Tenderer elects to submit a Tender response, they must do so by using Queensland Rail’s online tendering tool (SAP Ariba Sourcing).
3. Tenderers are encouraged to carefully read all documentation available for download in the SAP Ariba Sourcing System.
4. Tenderers, once registration is complete within the SAP Ariba eSourcing System are encouraged to accept the prerequisites Bidder Agreement under 'Review and Accept Prerequisities' tab to ensure all system generated notifications are received. This includes but is not limited to: Addendums and Content Updates.

Note: Queensland Rail will only accept tender responses submitted via the SAP Ariba Sourcing System.