RFP LAS 2013 is now closed.
In this process NAFC invited capable
organisations to submit proposals for the supply of Large fixed wing Airtanker services (including supervision aircraft) to
support bushfire fighting in Australia from 2013-14 onwards.
The process is known
as the “Request for Proposals for Large Airtanker
Services” or “RFP LAS 2013”.
Submission of responses
closed on Wednesday 9th January 2013.
RFP DOCUMENTS
The following documents
are still available, for reference purposes, at the links on this page, under
the “RFP Documents Download” area below:
(i)
the Request for Proposals
(RFP) document; and
(ii)
the Specimen Contract on which proposals were based
(note: this is the same Specimen Contract as used in NAFC’s parallel Invitation
to Tender for Aerial Firefighting Services 2013+” process); and
(iii)
the Large Airtanker
Supplementary Contract Requirements document, which provides some additional
information about the likely application of the Specimen Contract to Large Airtankers; and
(iv)
the “How to Respond to the
Request for Proposals for Large Airtanker Services
2013” guide; and
(v)
a number of forms designed to be
completed in either Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Word:
Aircraft and Services - Aircraft Data
Form (MS Excel form)
Aircraft and Services - Services and
Pricing Form (MS Excel form)
Aircraft and Services - Large Airtanker Scenario Form (MS Word form).
These forms (along with other forms) comprised a key part of any
response to this RFP. Because these
forms include their own specific instructions, and in some cases are relatively
complex, they were made available here. These forms, and the other response forms,
were also available via the tender submission portal (see below), but were
provided at the Downloads area below for convenience, as proposers may have wished
to download and become familiar with these particular forms early in the
process.
Reference documents
quoted in the RFP – such as NAFC Standards - are available at
the general Downloads page of the NAFC website. (Click on the Downloads
tab above, or click here to go straight to the general Downloads page
for these supporting documents - but remember the links to the specific
RFP documents are at the RFP Documents Download area, below.)
RESPONDING TO THE REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS
The period for responding
to the RFP has now closed.
ENQUIRIES
Further enquiries
regarding the content of the Request for Proposals, the Specimen Contract, the
Large Airtanker Supplementary Contract Requirements
document and the response forms should be directed to NAFC via email to tenders@nafc.org.au.
For probity and
fairness reasons NAFC is not able to deal with telephone enquiries regarding
this process.
If you have any
difficulty accessing documents, the server may be busy. Please wait a little
while and try again. If you continue to have problems email tenders@nafc.org.au.
The Request for Proposals documents require a
PDF reader such as Adobe Reader, which may be downloaded by clicking on the
menu at the top of this page.