Tender Details

Data Centre Infrastructure and Witness Site Expression of Interest (EOI)

Business Name

Queensland Rail

VP Reference #

VP471097

Buyers Reference #

QRP-25-39

Opens

Tuesday 29 July 2025 (E. Australia Standard Time)

Closes

Tuesday 26 August 2025 02:00 PM (E. Australia Standard Time) CLOSED

Supplier query cut-off

Tuesday 19 August 2025 02:00 PM (E. Australia Standard Time)

Expected decision

Tuesday 07 October 2025 (E. Australia Standard Time)

Buyer Details

Business Name

Queensland Rail

Location

305 Edward St
Brisbane City, Queensland 4000
Australia

WebSite:

http://www.queenslandrail.com.au

Business Info

Founded in 1865, Queensland Rail has a proud history of connecting Queensland communities and supporting local jobs, industries and economies. We are committed to providing a customer-focused, safe, modern and world-class rail service for Queenslanders.

With total assets of $8.0 billion, and a network that extends more than 6,600 kilometres across the state, we are also focused on providing customers and Queenslanders with an efficient and value for money service.

Our 7,500 strong workforce delivers services across our South East Queensland and Regional networks, including Travel and Tourism services and Regional Freight.

Our South East Queensland team provides 8,392 services each week, supporting our customers to reach their destination safely and on-time. In 2019-2020, 44 million passenger trips were taken on the South East Queensland network (a decrease of approximately 20 per cent compared to 2018-2019, associated with COVID-19).

The Regional networks commuter and rail tourism markets are serviced by the Travel and Tourism products. These comprise eight services connecting Regional communities across Queensland with other Regional centres and the South East Queensland corner. These services support the Queensland tourism industry through the provision of unique rail tourism experiences including special events and charters through the operation of a small fleet of heritage services.

Our Regional networks and Freight team provides rail access for freight operators and other Queensland Rail supply chain customers to enable the critical transport of resources and general freight across the state.

We are proud of the role we play in providing vital passenger and freight services and we are dedicated to ensuring that our systems, procedures and practices reflect the highest standards of corporate governance.

Contact Name

Samir Bouchghl

Position:

None Provided

Primary phone:

0730721247

Mobile phone:

None Provided

Fax number:

None Provided

Email:

samir.bouchghl@qr.com.au

What the buyer is requesting

Details

Queensland Rail is seeking Expressions of Interest (EOIs) from suitably qualified and experienced providers to inform the planning and potential future procurement of data centre infrastructure and/or services. This EOI seeks to understand market capability, innovation, and potential delivery models that align with our strategic objectives. This EOI is not a tender for works. However, Queensland Rail intends to prepare a shortlist from respondents to this EOI and invite those respondents to submit written tenders.

Tenderers who wish to access the tender documents, must have an SAP Ariba network account and register the account to do business with Queensland Rail to enable visibility of your Ariba project. To register, please refer to the Ariba Registration of Company Profile guide.

You must then register interest by emailing the Contact Officer (lisa.piercy@qr.com.au) providing the following details:

- Name of Tendering Organisation

- Ariba Network ID (ANID)

- ABN

- Name of Tender Representative

- Email address of Tender Representative

- Phone number

Queensland Rail will only accept responses submitted via the Ariba Sourcing System.

For this tender (QRP-25-39), the information uploaded on Vendor Panel is not all the Tender information, however it is enough information for interested tenderers to determine whether the scope of works is suitable for their company profile. If a company is interested, please follow the above-mentioned steps.

Ariba Sourcing, Queensland Rail's tendering system, is the only tendering tool that Tenderers must use to submit their responses. Queensland Rail will not accept any physical responses or responses via the Vendor Panel website. Refer to the attached document Ariba Guide for Suppliers for instructions on how to navigate Ariba Sourcing (once your interest has been registered).

Tenderers who wish to access the tender documents, must have an SAP Ariba network account and register the account to do business with Queensland Rail to enable visibility of your Ariba project. To Register, please refer to the Ariba Registration of Company Profile guide.

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