Port of Townsville Limited

T00721

Thursday 29 May 2025 (E. Australia Standard Time)

Thursday 03 July 2025 12:00 PM (E. Australia Standard Time) CLOSED

Thursday 03 July 2025 12:00 PM (E. Australia Standard Time)

Wednesday 06 August 2025 (E. Australia Standard Time)

Port of Townsville Limited

1 Benwell Rd
South Townsville, Queensland 4810
Australia

http://www.townsville-port.com.au

Port Authority

Chantelle O'neill

Procurement Officer

47811609

None Provided

None Provided

coneill@townsville-port.com.au

SCOPE OF WORK

The scope of works includes the delivery of the following items:

1) Draft a Maintenance Dredging Sediment Sampling and Analysis Plan (SAP) design in accordance with the NAGD, ready for submission to both State and Commonwealth regulators, including:

o Attendance at (virtual) meetings with the regulators (expect a minimum of 2 with DETSI and DCCEEW);

o Deliver a draft SAP design for Port Review and feedback;

o Finalise and deliver the SAP design within one week of receiving comments from the Port. The Port of Townsville will submit the report to the Regulators;

o On receipt of feedback from regulators, update the SAP design to incorporate regulator comments and provide a final version to the Port to re-submit for approval.

2) Undertake all fieldwork associated with the approved SAP design, including:

o Supply and operation of all equipment (including vessel), laboratory supplies, crew and field staff;

o Obtain all permits/approvals required to undertake the SAP fieldwork prior to undertaking the works (including notifications to the RHM, VTS and Port Duty Officer as required)

o Organise a suitable sample processing facility for sample preparation (Port cannot provide a facility)

o Appropriate disposal of excess sediments collected during sampling (excess material is not to be returned to the marine environment).

o Organise appropriate NATA accredited laboratory/s for sample analysis, including storage and transport

o Provide notification to the Port if any samples are received by laboratory outside of holding times, temperatures or if any samples lost/impacted during transit

3) Draft a Maintenance Dredging Sediment Sampling and Analysis Implementation Report (SAP IR) based on the data collected during the fieldwork, ready for submission to both State and Commonwealth regulators, including:

o Attendance at (virtual) meetings with the regulators (expect a minimum of 2)

o Deliver a draft SAP Implementation Report for Port review and feedback (including comparison against sea placement criteria and land placement criteria if sea placement guidelines are not achieved)

o Finalise and deliver the SAP IR within one week of receiving comments from the Port. The Port of Townsville will submit the Report to the regulators.

o Draft a program summary/factsheet, suitable for the public, for the Port to finalise and disseminate as needed (likely website, stakeholder groups, community forums, etc.)

4) Draft a separate report for Particle Size distribution (PSD) for the different dredge areas.

This report will need to include a detailed description of the PSD for the following dredge areas:

o Sea Channel

o Platypus Channel

o Outer Harbour

o Inner Harbour

o Berths 1-11 including former 6/7

o Ross River

o TMP

o Ross Creek 1 and 2 (Section 1: Upstream Ferry Terminal and Section 2: Ferry Terminal-creek mouth))

It is expected that the material collected during the SAP field work would be used for this analysis, by way of standard PSD analysis (sieve and laser/hydrometer) to determine the percentage of clay, silt, sand, gravel, and cobbles (or similar) in each dredge area (down to 2 microns); and including the line of 15.6 microns across any graph generated.

4. TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS

Site considerations:

The area under consideration of this scope is directly within the operational shipping channels and Berth pockets; as well as within the transport routes for the Magnetic Island/Palm Island ferries and the recreational and commercial boating navigational areas of the Ross River Channel and Ross Creek.

All works must take into consideration the navigational requirements of all other vessels using the areas. Any/all works undertaken to complete the scope of works must not impact/impede upon vessel access to navigation and not block the channels (including Ross Creek and Ross River) at any point.

The MSQ Regional Harbour Master / Vessel Traffic Services and the Port Duty Officer must be regularly notified of all movements in and around the entrance to the Port of Townsville, in/directly adjacent the shipping channels, and within the Inner harbour and Berth pockets whilst undertaking the works. This communication will be the responsibility of the successful supplier to manage prior to and whilst on the water.

Other Expectations:

• All raw data, laboratory results, field sheets, sample prep logs, etc. generated from the Maintenance Dredging SAP Project must be provided to the Port of Townsville throughout the project (Port will set up a sharefile system), and before submission of the final SAP IR.

• All outputs are to be provided to the Port of Townsville in GIS format, and delivered with or before the submission of the final SAP IR.

• All submitters are expected to value add where appropriate for the Port of Townsville to consider in delivering the Maintenance Dredge SAP Project on time and on budget, and to ensure variations to the project costs are avoided.

• Port’s standard payment terms and conditions are 30 days from receipt of valid tax invoice; unless at the time of arranging procurement/contract other payment terms are negotiated and approved by the Port and supplier that would be more advantageous to the Port of Townsville.

• 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.

Dear Tenderers,

The Port of Townsville Limited (the Port) advises that the following constitutes an official addendum to the tender documentation.

The Port acknowledges that a number of enquiries have been received regarding dredge material, including its location/area, volume, and depth. We apologise for the omission of this information in the original tender documentation.

We are currently compiling the relevant details and will distribute this information to all tenderers as soon as possible.

In light of this, the Port will be extending the tender closing date by one (1) week to allow all tenderers sufficient time to consider the forthcoming information.

We appreciate your understanding and patience.

Yours faithfully,



Chantelle O’Neill

Acting Contract Framework advisor

Please note: The following addendum has been recently added.

1. Added: (Addendum) T00721 - Addendum 1.pdf

Please consider this addendum when responding.

Please note: The following addendum has been recently added.

1. Added: (Addendum) T00721 - Addendum 2.pdf

Please consider this addendum when responding.