Current opportunities
NEG6444 Guidelines for Planning and Design of Bus Infrastructure on RoadsPurpose: Austroads seeks responses from appropriately experienced service providers to develop guidance to inform the planning and design of bus infrastructure with an aim to enhance safety for all road users, maintain road network performance, support bus performance and reliability, and increase consistency in treatments related to buses running within the road reserve. Objective: The objective of this project is to develop a guidance document to inform the planning, design and implementation of bus infrastructure in the road reserve. The road reserve is defined as the extents between property boundaries which is dedicated by legislation for use of travelling. The document will be structured to provide specific, clear and evidence led guidance for a range of users seeking to improve bus infrastructure in the road reserve. The guidance should be fit for purpose for practitioners in Australia and New Zealand. Scope: The project will involve engagement with subject matter experts across Austroads member agencies to capture and record lessons learnt from planning, designing and implementing bus infrastructure in road reserves. The preferred project team will review Australian/New Zealand and international experience for additional learnings and applicability to local conditions. This project will deliver an Austroads guidance document to inform the planning, design and implementation of bus infrastructure. The document will be structured to provide specific, clear and evidence led principles and guidance for a range of users seeking to improve bus infrastructure in the road reserve. The guidance document will be supported by research reports, which presents two levels of guidance. This project will produce the following deliverables: Phase 1:
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Interested parties are requested to refer to the full Tender Brief from the tendering platform for detailed information and scope of works. Closing date: Thursday 18 April 2024 – 4PM Australian Eastern Standard Time. |
FY25 External Audit Services AustroadsPurpose: Austroads seeks proposals from suitably qualified firms to be considered for appointment as external auditors commencing for the year ending 30 June 2025. Objective: Austroads comprises two entities, Austroads Ltd and Transport Certification Australia Ltd, both are limited by guarantee. Each entity prepares special purpose financial reports for its members. Consolidated financial statements are not required as directors have determined that the group is not a reporting entity. The successful provider will conduct annual audits for the period of the appointment using an audit methodology that complies with the requirements of Australian Auditing Standards and Australian Pronouncements of Ethical Standards and will observe ethical standards and professional independence requirements including APES 110 ‘Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants (including Independence Standards)’ to provide an independent audit opinion to the respective members of each entity. The term of appointment will cover audits for the financial years ending 30 June 2025, 30 June 2026 and 30 June 2027. Austroads offices are based in Sydney and Melbourne. It is anticipated the successful provider will undertake the audit services both remotely and in person in the offices of Austroads where appropriate. Closing date: Thursday 28 March 2024 – 4PM Australian Eastern Daylight Time. |
SAG6365 Expression of Interest for Charting a Path to Eliminating Road Death and Serious Injury – Stream 2: Development of Zero Pathway Options and Stakeholder EngagementPurpose: The purpose of this request for Expressions of Interest (EOI) is to identify appropriately qualified and motivated practitioners and experts to contribute to Austroads project Charting a Path to Eliminating Road Death and Serious Injury (SAG6365) – Stream 2: Development of Zero Pathway Options and Stakeholder Engagement. This contribution will be through membership of an integrated project team that may include several consultants and members of the Austroads project team. Note that you are not required to put a full team together, but only to nominate yourself/your organisation for consideration for Austroads to include you in the team. For more details on Austroads Project SAG6365 , visit the Austroads website. What are the key areas of expertise we are looking for?
What is the length and depth of the engagement? Stream 2 is envisaged to take 6-9 months (March-October) after commencement, and each area of the engagement is envisaged to take several weeks’ worth of effort to be completed within this period. Closing date: Thursday 21 March 2024 – 4PM Australian Eastern Daylight Time. |
NEG6443 Design and Implementation Guidance for Transverse Rumble StripsPurpose: The purpose of this project is to develop a comprehensive set of guidelines for the design, placement and application of transverse rumble strips, including site selection criteria and consideration of pavement materials, strip spacing and dimensions. Scope:
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Interested parties are requested to refer to the full Tender Brief for detailed information and scope of works. Closing date: Monday 18 March 2024 – 4PM Australian Eastern Daylight Time. |
NEG6440 Proof-of-Concept – Austroads-23 Classification SchemePurpose: The primary purpose of this project is to support road managers to obtain accurate insights into current usage of their networks for a range of different vehicle types, including the utilisation of evolving data collection technologies. The secondary purpose of this project is to identify suitable solution(s) for bicycle (and micromobility) detection systems at traffic signalised intersections. There are two work packages being tendered within NEG6440:
Objective: The objectives of each tendered work package within the NEG6440 project are to:
A tenderer shall nominate their intended level of responsibility for field testing support, with the range of possibilities set out in the Methodology section of the tender briefs. Deliverables: Across the two work packages the deliverables are:
Pre-tender meeting: A non-mandatory pre-tender meeting will be held on Tuesday 5 March 2024 at 2.00 pm (AEDT) using Microsoft Teams. Details on how to join this video conference will be provided as a tender notice on the tender website (click on the links below) at a later date. View tender documents and forum for Package A View tender documents and forum for Package B Closing date: Thursday 4 April 2024 – 4PM Australian Eastern Daylight Time. |