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Request for Tender for Pre-Employment Screening Services.
Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane, Darwin, Hobart
The AEC is issuing this Request for Tender for pre-employment screening services in support of its business activities.
Police checks will be for routine business as usual activities as well as the AEC’s temporary election workforces for electoral events.
Tenderers are asked to:
• review the enclosed information;
• note the mandatory conditions for participation;
• request clarifying information from the AEC, if required, prior to the enquiry deadline;
• complete and submit all Annexures to Schedule 3 of the Request for Tender.
(a) The Tenderer must be accredited by the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission to access the National Police Checking Service Support System in order to submit applications for police checks and retrieve police check results on behalf of police check applicants.
(b) The Tenderer either:
(i) holds a Valid and Satisfactory Statement of Tax Record; or
(ii) has a receipt demonstrating that a Statement of Tax Record has been requested from the Australian Taxation Office by the RFT Closing Time, and holds a Valid and Satisfactory Statement of Tax Record no later than 4 business days from the RFT Closing Time.
(c) The Tenderer holds a Valid and Satisfactory Statement of Tax Record for any first tier subcontractor that it proposes, as part of its Tender, to engage to deliver goods or services with an estimated value of over $4 million (GST inclusive).
The AEC expects to enter into contracts with successful tenderers in March 2021.
Contracts are expected to have an initial term of three years. It is expected that there will be extension options not exceeding six years in total.