The City of Greater Geelong seek to establish qualified and experienced contractors to deliver weed control and other environmental works on nature reserves and rural road reserves throughout the municipality.

The objective of this work is to maintain and improve the health of natural assets and ecosystems on City managed land.

Background

The City’s nature reserves are conservation areas with important environmental values. They contain locally indigenous plants, habitat for native animals and remnants of native vegetation.

Some nature reserves include wetlands and other interesting geological features. Many are woodlands supporting eucalyptus or other native trees. Others are covered by indigenous shrubs or grasses. Our coastal areas are also nature reserves.

We manage our nature reserves to protect them from threatening processes such as weed and rabbit infestation and to improve their natural values.

Many of our rural road reserves also support native vegetation and provide habitat for biodiversity. We manage these to prevent degradation from weed infestation and other threats.

Please refer to the tender documentation issued for further details regarding the full scope of works required under this contract.

Late tenders will not be accepted.

Non-Mandatory Online Briefing Session:

Please be advised that the City will conduct an online briefing session at 10:00am on Tuesday 4 March 2025. The briefing will discuss the proposed contract, OHS requirements and other submission requirements.

Briefing Link: Please notify the City of your intention to attend the briefing by contacting Mark Libardi at the email address listed below. A link to the online briefing will be provided via email upon receipt of RSVP.

Mark Libardi Mark.Libardi@geelongcity.vic.gov.au

Mandatory Criteria:

Mandatory criteria applies to this tender. Please refer to the Tender Document issued in this pack for further details.

Draft Contract:

Your organisation must review the Contract Terms & Conditions issued with this tender, as per eProcure Response Schedule 'Compliance and Conformance' section and submit any non-conformances at time of tender submission.

Responses:

Please review the Response Schedule at the beginning of the tender period. All questions within the schedule must be responded to, so it is imperative that tenderers are aware of the format and content of the schedule when collating their tender submission and follow this format when submitting. Instructions are available at the beginning of the eProcure Response Schedule and failure to respond in this format may result in the tender submission not being evaluated.

All submissions are to be provided online as an electronic response through this portal, with documentation supporting responses added where necessary.

All submissions are to be provided online as an electronic response through this portal. All questions within the schedule must be responded to. Tenderers must answer all questions in each section and provide supporting documentation where required.

All Tenderers are asked to respond to each question separately. Tenderers must not upload a single proposal and state or answer with ‘please see in uploaded proposal’.

It is imperative that tenderers are aware of the format and content of the schedule when collating their tender submission and follow this format when submitting.

Tenders are asked to only reference pricing in the PRIC1 Pricing Schedule document.

Please note, Failure to submit your response in the requested format may result in the tender submission being excluded from further evaluation.

Late tenders will not be accepted. Please ensure upload commences 1 hour prior to prevent unplanned lock out occurring.

Instructions are available at the beginning of the eProcure Response Schedule and failure to respond in this format may result in the tender submission not being evaluated.