TenderBuilt’s newsroom covering the rapidly evolving procurement landscape — Commonwealth Procurement Rules, Queensland QPP 2026, NSW procurement reforms, Victoria’s Local Jobs First, Indigenous Procurement Policy, environmental sustainability requirements, and AI disruption in tender writing.
RESOURCES/PROCUREMENT POLICY Embodied Carbon and Decarbonisation: The Tender Question Civil Contractors Did Not See Coming Carbon has moved from a rating credit to a scored criterion and a contractual reporting obligation. The uncomfortable part for a civil contractor is that most of the emissions on your job are not in your diesel — they are … Read more
RESOURCES/PROCUREMENT POLICY Modern Slavery and Supply Chain Compliance: The Tender Questions No One Explained You are almost certainly not a reporting entity — which is exactly why the modern slavery, supplier code and labour hire questions in tenders are confusing. The obligation reaching you is contractual, not statutory, and one of these regimes makes it … Read more
RESOURCES/PROCUREMENT POLICY The WA and SA Infrastructure Pipelines: Where the Accessible Civil Work Is Western Australia and South Australia run the two most concentrated infrastructure programs in the country relative to their size — one built on rail, port and resources access, the other on a single road project large enough to reshape a city, … Read more
RESOURCES/PROCUREMENT POLICY Where Council Civil Work Comes From: Roads to Recovery, Black Spot and the Federal Programs Behind Local Tenders Every council road tender you bid was funded by something, and it was almost never rates alone. Roads to Recovery, Black Spot, the local roads and community infrastructure money, state road funds and disaster arrangements … Read more
RESOURCES/PROCUREMENT POLICY Sustainability, IS Ratings and Recycled Materials in Civil Tenders Sustainability has moved from a paragraph in the back of a submission to a scored criterion with contractual reporting behind it — and on rated projects, to a formal certification the head contractor must achieve with your data. What the IS Rating Scheme is, … Read more
RESOURCES/PROCUREMENT POLICY Local Content, Skills and Training Requirements in Australian Civil Tenders Apprentice hour targets, local content commitments and industry participation plans are not background policy — they are scored at tender, written into the contract, reported on quarterly and, in Victoria from 1 July 2026, tied to a contingent payment mechanism. What Local Jobs … Read more
RESOURCES/PROCUREMENT POLICY Victoria’s Infrastructure Valley: What the Big Build Downslope Means for Civil SMEs Victoria’s own Budget papers put government infrastructure investment at a peak of $24.2 billion in 2023–24, moderating to $15.3 billion by 2029–30. That is a declining market with a consolidating access structure — and it demands the opposite strategy from a … Read more
RESOURCES/PROCUREMENT POLICY The NSW Infrastructure Pipeline and the Civil SME: Where the Accessible Work Actually Is New South Wales publishes one of the most detailed infrastructure pipelines in the country, and it is structurally incapable of showing a civil SME its own market. The state program is constrained and metro-dominated; the work an SME can … Read more
RESOURCES/INDUSTRY BODIES Civil Contractors Federation Membership (CCF) Across Australia: The National Guide for Multi-State Civil Contractors A civil contractor operating in a single state has one industry-body decision to make. A contractor operating across two, three, or more states faces a more complicated reality that is easy to misread: the Civil Contractors Federation is not … Read more
RESOURCES/INDUSTRY BODIES Civil Contractors Federation Northern Territory (CCF NT): A Strategic Guide for Civil Construction SMEs The Northern Territory operates the most distinctive civil construction procurement environment in Australia. Unlike every other state and territory — which prequalify road and bridge contractors through the Austroads National Prequalification System — the NT runs its own scheme: … Read more