Dept of the Environ, Tourism, Science and Innov

DES1242293

Wednesday 18 June 2025 (E. Australia Standard Time)

Monday 21 July 2025 02:00 PM (E. Australia Standard Time) CLOSED

Thursday 10 July 2025 02:00 PM (E. Australia Standard Time)

Friday 19 September 2025 (E. Australia Standard Time)

Dept of the Environ, Tourism, Science and Innov

17 Langton St
Garbutt, Queensland 4814
Australia

https://www.environment.desi.qld.gov.au/

Our department champions Queensland's environmental sustainability and innovation-driven growth. We protect and manage our natural resources, including the Great Barrier Reef, while fostering biodiversity and heritage conservation. As pioneers in scientific strategy, we spearhead environmental stewardship and support Queensland's science sector. Driving economic growth, we cultivate an innovation ecosystem, promoting entrepreneurship and investment. Collaborating across sectors, we nurture innovation precincts for sustained development

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**Briefing session**:

10-11am (AEST) 3 July 2025 via TEAMs.

RSVP by 2pm 1 July 2025 via jamie.corfield@detsi.qld.gov.au

Registered suppliers will receive an electronic invite prior to 3 July.

**Closing date for questions**

2pm 10 July 2025

**Closing date and time for offers**

2pm 21 July 2025

The engagement of a service provider to oversee the rollout of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) Urban Technology and Innovation Fund (the Fund) which is jointly funded by the Queensland and Australian Governments.

Key responsibilities for the successful supplier includes:

· Managing over $23 million funding on behalf of the Queensland and Australian government

· Setting up and coordinating a Fund Expression of Interest (EOI) process to determine successful trial projects under the Fund

· Trial delivery governance and oversight

· Coordinating project communications

· Developing and passing on key program management learnings to the Government.

The Queensland Reef Water Quality Program (QRWQP) has a strong record of investing in innovation to drive GBR water quality outcomes.

The QRWQP along with the Australian Government’s Clearer Water for a Healthy Reef program have committed a combined $24 million to a new GBR Urban Technology and Innovation Fund (the Fund). The Fund will support innovation and technologies in GBR catchments to expedite water quality improvements in the urban and industrial point source sectors. Urban areas cover less than 1% of the GBR catchment, yet discharges from urban land use contribute up to 7% of the dissolved inorganic nitrogen loads entering the GBR and close to 2% of the total fine sediment that flows to the GBR. While comparatively small at a GBR scale, these pollutant loads can be significant at a local scale. Funding innovative initiatives in urban landscapes will give much needed attention to a sector that has not previously been the focus of QRWQP investment.

The Fund will build on previous government investments and existing initiatives by supporting:

· the acceleration of already piloted innovative management responses or technologies to operating scale

· novel management approaches or new technologies

· management approaches or technologies applied at scale elsewhere, but not tested within the Great Barrier Reef catchment

· novel use of existing urban water infrastructure to treat additional nutrient and/or sediment from other sources

· novel use of existing industrial water quality treatment to treat additional sediment and nutrients from urban sources.

There will be a strong focus on sewage wastewater management, stormwater management and erosion and sediment control initiatives and other urban pollution management initiatives to deliver water quality benefits for the Great Barrier Reef.

• Queensland
  1: Brisbane
  2: Central West
  3: Darling Downs
  4: Far North
  5: Fitzroy
  6: Gold Coast
  7: Mackay
  8: North West
  9: Northern
  10: Offshore (QLD)
  11: South West
  12: Sunshine Coast
  13: West Moreton
  14: Wide Bay-Burnett

All Regions of Service locations are within Australia.

Please note: The following addendum has been recently added.

1. Added: (Addendum) DES1242293_Addendum 1.pdf

Please consider this addendum when responding.

Please note: The following addenda have been recently added.

1. Added: (Addendum) DES1242293_Addendum 2.pdf

2. Added: (Addendum) Great Barrier Reef Tender.pdf

Please consider these addenda when responding.

Please note: The following addendum has been recently added.

1. Added: (Addendum) DES1242293_Addendum 3.pdf

Please consider this addendum when responding.

Please note: The following addendum has been recently added.

1. Added: (Addendum) DES1242293_Addendum 4.pdf

Please consider this addendum when responding.