Ausgrid is responsible for ensuring the safety and reliability of its electricity supply network. Regular maintenance and servicing of street lighting is crucial in meeting this responsibility by ensuring that streetlights maintain compliance with public lighting standards.

Ausgrid is inviting tenders from experienced companies who offer the expertise, business management systems and required capability to provide streetlight maintenance services including electrical services, meaning Ausgrid can continue to foster long standing relationship with the external market for these works.

Throughout each Performance Period Cycle, the Contractor must provide adequately resourced streetlight servicing to meet all Contract requirements; particularly in meeting the streetlight Single Performance schedules provided in Part A Specification, Annexure 1, plus individual ad hoc work orders.

In summary, within the Contractors allocated contract region the Contractor must:
a) Replace street lighting lamps and fluorescent lamp starters
b) Clean reflective surfaces contained within the streetlights
c) Clean streetlight visors
d) Replace defective and missing visors and gaskets
e) Replace damaged shades
f) Replace defective photoelectric cells (PE)
g) Carry out minor non-electrical repairs
h) Carry out electrical work as required
i) Establish and maintain contractors store and manage materials supplied by Ausgrid
j) Dispose of all replaced materials and packaging
k) Carry out post work inspections of the work area
l) Carry out traffic route streetlight (TRS) audits every four months (3 times per annum) within nominated major traffic route plans
m) Use Ausgrid's SAP system to source notifications, schedule work and check work progress
n) Use mobile electronic devices and Ausgrid's SAP system to complete streetlight details
o) Create MD (master data) notifications in the SAP system to enable cleansing and correction of incorrect streetlight data
p) Installation / maintenance of lighting solutions street lights