Tender Details
Forward Procurement Notification: Systems Engineering Safety Assurance Consultancy Services Panel
Business Name
Queensland Rail
VP Reference #
VP485963
Opens
Friday 31 October 2025
(E. Australia Standard Time)
Closes
Monday 17 November 2025 05:00 PM
(E. Australia Standard Time)
CLOSED
Supplier query cut-off
Monday 17 November 2025 05:00 PM
(E. Australia Standard Time)
Expected decision
Monday 24 November 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 Details
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What the buyer is requesting
Details
Purpose:
This notice is issued for informational purposes only. No Scope of Works or additional details are available at this time.
Overview::
The Major Projects (MP) function is responsible for driving excellence in seamless major projects integration and readiness within Queensland Rail (QR). The dedicated team provides operational, commercial, and strategic management of QR’s project delivery safety performance, customer service performance and other relevant project delivery aspects.
The Major Projects Group is working with external sponsors, stakeholders, and delivery entities to work toward delivering a number of major projects within Southeast Queensland including, but not limited to:
• Cross River Rail (CRR);
• Logan and Gold Coast Faster Rail (LGCFR);
• Beerburrum to Nambour (B2N);
• ETCS - Beenleigh to Varsity Lakes (B2V);
• ETCS Moorooka to Kuraby (M2K);
• ETCS – Kuraby to Beenleigh (B2V);
• SEQ ETCS L2 Roll-Out;
• Direct Sunshine Coast Line (DSC);
• New Albion Station;
• Roma Street Station; and
• Next Generation Rollingstock.
Indicative Scope:
The Scope of Services is updated to incorporate additional requirements that were not included in the previous panel. The Consultancy Services that may be required are:
• Technical Advisory
• System and Asset Acceptance
• Specialist Engineering
• Safety Assurance and Accreditation
• Planning and Scheduling Management
• Program Delivery Management
• Operational Advisory
• Specialist Integration Services
• Human Factors
• Rail Safety Specialists
Timing:
Existing contracts are due to expire August 2026. The tender is expected to be released by 17 November 2025.
Note:
This is a forward procurement notification only. No further information is available at this stage.
Supplier lists selected
Lists
Business & Administrative Services
Engineer, Research, Tech services
IT & Telecomms
Management Advisory Services
Railway, Tramway and Track
Categories selected
Categories
Business & Administrative Services
1: Business & Strategic Planning services
Engineering & Research & Technical Based Services
1: Engineering Consulting Services
2: Geotechnical Services
3: Project Management
4: Quantity Surveying
5: Transport Planning & Traffic Engineering
IT & Telecomms
1: Services - Consultants
2: Services - Software Support & Maintenance
3: Services - Strategy & Analysis
Management Advisory Services
1: Management Consulting
2: Professional Services
3: Risk Management
Railway, Tramway and Track
1: Engineering Services
2: Other Materials
3: Safety, Signalling and Control Systems
Regions of Service
Locations
Queensland
1: Brisbane
2: Gold Coast
3: Sunshine Coast
All Regions of Service locations are within Australia.
Information requested by others
06/Nov/2025 06:15 PM
Question
:
Hi,
We are interested in tendering for the Systems Engineering Safety Assurance Consultancy Services Panel from Queensland Rail, however note that the VendorPanel submission link takes us to an alternative page that says"This Request is using an 'Alternate Response' model." whereby the link goes to a Queensland Rail site detailing information regarding 'changes to QTenders'.
We have check in Ariba and QTenders, however cannot find any information on this particular tender notification.
Can you please provide some assistance on how/where we can register interest?
Thank you.
Answered on 07/Nov/2025 08:10 AM
:
This is a forward procurement notification advising the tender will be coming released shortly
12/Nov/2025 08:18 AM
Question
:
This is clearly stated as a 'for info' advance notice but the info pdf has the following marked in red text.
"To be eligible for consideration, you must finalize and submit your response online via VendorPanel before the
17/Nov/2025 06:00 PM AUS Eastern Daylight Time."
We understand that there is no action related to this advanced notification and that the tender will be published on 17 Nov.
Please clarify if any action is required for interested parties relating to this forward procurement notification.
Answered on 12/Nov/2025 08:30 AM
:
This is only a notiifcation that the tender will be released in the coming days. We are unable to change the info pdf as that is system based. The tender will need to be completed in Ariba when it is released.
Updates made to this Request
07/Nov/2025 08:12 AM
Error in date - November 2025
10/Nov/2025 03:40 PM
Tender release date changed - tender will be released by 17 November 2025