Central Highlands Regional Council

RFQ260084

Monday 18 May 2026 (E. Australia Standard Time)

Friday 05 June 2026 02:00 PM (E. Australia Standard Time)

Friday 05 June 2026 02:00 PM (E. Australia Standard Time)

Friday 12 June 2026 (E. Australia Standard Time)

Central Highlands Regional Council

14 Glasson St
Emerald, Queensland 4720
Australia

https://www.centralhighlands.qld.gov.au/

The Central Highlands region is in Central Queensland, Australia. The region encompasses an area of around 60 000 square kilometres, making it just short of the size of Tasmania.

It is home to around 30 000 people who live in the thirteen unique communities of Arcadia Valley, Bauhinia, Blackwater, Bluff, Capella, Comet, Dingo, Duaringa, Emerald, Rolleston, Sapphire Gemfields, Springsure and Tieri.

Our region is rich in minerals and agriculture, thriving on irrigation sourced from water storage on the Nogoa and Comet rivers. We claim the largest sapphire-producing fields in the Southern Hemisphere.

Major freight routes through the region include the north-south link between Charters Towers and northern New South Wales—identified as the inland transport alternative between Cairns and Melbourne.

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Central Highlands Regional Council (CHRC) is seeking quotations from suitably qualified multidisciplinary consultants to provide survey, detailed design and separable construction tender support services for the proposed Dingo Bin Station — Rural Waste Facility at Lot 51 on HT420, 56 Normanby Street, Dingo QLD 4702.

The project involves the design of a basic, fit-for-purpose, unmanned rural waste drop-off facility intended to improve service equity for the Dingo community. The proposed facility comprises:

6 × 3 m³ general waste bulk bins

3 × 3 m³ commingled recycling bulk bins

Front-lift vehicle servicing arrangements

Fenced and CCTV-monitored compound

All-weather gravel access road

Associated civil, drainage, signage and operational infrastructure

The consultancy engagement includes:

Stage 1 — Survey and Site Investigation

Stage 2 — Detailed Design and Documentation

Stage 3 — Construction Tender Support (separable and only activated by Council written instruction)

The full scope of services, technical requirements, design directives, deliverables and programme are detailed in Attachment 1 — Design Brief issued with RFQ260084 / VP508874.

Key project timing requirements are:

Contract commencement: anticipated July 2026

Stage 1 and Stage 2 substantially complete by Friday 30 October 2026

Stage 3 (if activated) during the subsequent construction procurement phase

The site is located at:

Lot 51 on HT420

56 Normanby Street

Dingo QLD 4702

The Services require a combination of remote office-based work and site-based investigations, including survey and geotechnical fieldwork.

All communications during the quotation period are to occur via the VendorPanel forum.

The Dingo Bin Station project forms part of Council’s broader waste and resource recovery service planning and is intended as a low-complexity rural waste infrastructure project focused on practical service delivery outcomes and long-term operational sustainability.

The preferred project site (Lot 51 HT420) was endorsed through Council governance processes following a multi-criteria assessment. The site is Council-owned land classified as “Reserve for Local Government” with a reserve sub-purpose of “Rubbish Disposal”.

The facility is intentionally framed as a basic rural bin station and not as a transfer station, resource recovery centre, or staffed waste facility. Respondents must adopt this project framing throughout the engagement and avoid unnecessary scope expansion or technical overdesign.

Compatibility requirements include:

- Design compatibility with existing CHRC waste contractor front-lift servicing arrangements

- Compatibility with standard 3 m³ AS 4123 bulk bins

- Compatibility with Council’s existing CCTV and signage arrangements where applicable

- Deliverables suitable for future construction procurement under the Local Government Regulation 2012 (Qld)

- Compliance with all applicable Queensland legislation, Australian Standards and RPEQ requirements

- Design outputs compatible with CHRC operational maintenance capability and rural service delivery context

Mandatory technical requirements include multidisciplinary capability covering:

Civil engineering (RPEQ)

Licensed cadastral or engineering surveying

Geotechnical engineering

Town planning

Environmental compliance

The Consultant must demonstrate capacity to complete Stages 1 and 2 within the required programme and provide practical, cost-conscious design solutions aligned with Council’s indicative construction budget of approximately $350,000 (planning estimate).

Council’s Design Directives D1–D11 are mandatory unless otherwise agreed in writing. Particular emphasis is placed on:

- shortest practicable access alignment

- minimising sealed pavement extent

- standard fencing and infrastructure solutions

- avoiding unnecessary lighting or automation

- maintaining strict scope discipline

- preserving future expansion capability without overbuilding initial infrastructure

Council is seeking a consultant that can deliver a practical, constructible and cost-effective design outcome suitable for a small rural community facility, rather than a highly engineered or over-specified solution.

Desired outcomes include:

- A fit-for-purpose rural waste facility design aligned with operational simplicity and long-term maintainability

- Design documentation suitable for efficient construction procurement and delivery

- Infrastructure that can be delivered within the project budget envelope

- Clear identification and management of planning, environmental, geotechnical and operational risks early in the design process

- Safe and efficient vehicle access and servicing arrangements for both the public and collection contractor

- Protection of existing environmental features, particularly the on-site pond

- Future-proofing for moderate bin expansion without major redesign

Council will favour respondents who demonstrate:

- Strong understanding of regional and rural local government infrastructure delivery environments

- Experience delivering practical waste, civil or local government infrastructure projects of comparable scale

- Ability to apply proportional design solutions rather than metropolitan or industrial-scale standards

- Strong programme management and responsiveness

- Clear communication and concise reporting

- Awareness of whole-of-life operational and maintenance implications

Nice-to-have attributes include:

- Previous experience with rural waste facilities, transfer stations, bin stations or similar local government infrastructure

- Familiarity with Queensland planning and environmental approval pathways for low-scale waste infrastructure

- Existing working relationships with Central Queensland subconsultants and suppliers

- iSO 9001-certified quality systems (preferred but not mandatory)

Conditions and expectations include:

- All deliverables to be provided in editable native formats and PDF

- All civil engineering deliverables to be RPEQ-certified where applicable

- The geotechnical investigation must be delivered as a fixed-price line item including a minimum of six test pits

- Stage 3 is entirely separable and may not proceed

- Council retains full intellectual property ownership of deliverables under the Consultancy Agreement

- Consultants must maintain the insurances specified in the RFQ, including $5 million Professional Indemnity cover and $20 million Public Liability cover

The successful consultant is expected to operate collaboratively with Council while maintaining disciplined scope control and proactive risk identification throughout the engagement.

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All Regions of Service locations are within Australia.

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