Tendering

A standard RFT for a major (QLD) project. Fully worked with conditions applicable to a major project with a preference for an instrument of delegation by the tenderer's board of directors (or otherwise things start getting complicated). It requires confidentiality agreement (nomination format) before due diligence can begin and requires any subby that the tenderer wants to be included in due diligence to be identified by statutory declaration by the tenderer. The subby will also need to sign a confidentiality agreement. It ties any subby involved in due diligence to one tenderer only.

A standard RFT for a major (national) project. Fully worked with conditions applicable to a major project with a preference for an instrument of delegation by the tenderer's board of directors (or otherwise things start getting complicated). It requires considentiality agreement (nomination format) before due diligence can begin and requires any subby that the tenderer wants to be involved in due diligence to be identified by confidentiality declaration by the tenderer. The subby will also need to sign a confidentiality agreement.

Lodgement under seal. A legal document accompanying the Tender often used to guarantee products, services and/or prices on offer in the accompanying Tender. This is a simple example, just guaranteeing the price; two Options, with or without a Capital Works Programme. This is the only place the price of the offer is mentioned in the tender document, allowing it to be removed from the front to allow the rest of the tender to be processed by players at the lodgement office assessing the value of the tender who do not need to know the final price.

Storage Area Network (SAN) showing SCSI star configuration around a SCSI switch. This is a picture in a Word document, so is not editable. Just an example. A Visio template is also available.

The Expression of Interest (EOI) is a formal response to the ROI. Vendors use a good EOI to register their interest in a way which will guarantee their inclusion in Stage 2.

A diagram depicting a two-tier hierarchical topology based on 3 hubs, IBM compatible at the node. Three hub profiles (lists of points) shows detail of 24 nodes. This is a picture in a Word document, so is not editable. A Visio template is also available.

Any state in Australia. A sub-contractor employed under a separate contract with the Contractor signs under Deed Poll an undertaking to keep confidential information supplied to him/her for work under the original Contract between the Principal and the Contractor. This is an interesting document. It uses the Deed Poll format so that the subbie can sign it without the need for formal sign off of three way agreements between the subby and the other two parties which are a hassle to obtain and provide little more than the Deed Poll.

Fully developed reply to tender for dealing with a Commonwealth RFT. International legal offer.

This service level agreement (SLA) accompanies the basic service contract and exists to spell out the service levels in the tender, target levels of service in the form of KPI (key performance indicators) and the requirements on the supplier if targets are not met.

This stat dec executed in Queensland is for lodging with the Tender and allows the Tenderer to make special guarantees about a particular deliverable as required by the Issuer. It also provides a place to spell out any limitation to these guarantees.