How to write winning tender responses for civil works — methodology statements, non-price criteria, capability statements, project programming, and tender presentation for earthworks, drainage, road construction, and council maintenance contracts.
RESOURCES/PREQUALIFICATION Working at Height in Civil Construction: Edges, Platforms and the Fall Nobody Planned For Civil contractors think of themselves as working at ground level, which is why height controls are the ones most often absent from a civil safety system. The falls that happen here are from truck decks, plant access steps, excavation edges, … Read more
RESOURCES/PRICING & CONTRACTS Portable Long Service Leave: The Levy on Your Project and the Entitlement That Follows the Worker Every state and territory runs a portable long service leave scheme for construction, each with a different name, a different levy and a different set of registration and notification duties. It is a real cost on … Read more
RESOURCES/PREQUALIFICATION Tickets, VOCs and Competency Records: Proving Your People Are Qualified to Do the Work Operator competency is one of the few things a client can verify in five minutes, and one of the few where a gap is indefensible. A licence, a statement of attainment and a verification of competency are three different things … Read more
RESOURCES/PREQUALIFICATION Plant and People: On-Site Traffic Management and the Separation That Actually Prevents the Incident Every civil contractor has a traffic management plan for the public road. Far fewer have a plant and pedestrian separation plan for inside the fence, which is where mobile plant and workers share ground all day. Being struck by mobile … Read more
RESOURCES/WINNING STRATEGIES Data Centres and Industrial Civil Works: The Market That Arrived Without a Tender Portal Data centre civil works and large industrial projects are among the biggest earthworks and hardstand packages being built in Australia, and almost none of them are advertised where civil contractors look. The work is bulk earthworks and pavements you … Read more
RESOURCES/PREQUALIFICATION Psychosocial Hazards: The Work Health and Safety Duty Civil Contractors Have Not Started Managing Managing psychosocial hazards is now an explicit duty under work health and safety regulations, sitting alongside the duty to manage a trench collapse. Most civil contractors have a safety system that would pass an audit on plant and excavation and … Read more
RESOURCES/PREQUALIFICATION Clearing, Fauna and Threatened Species: The Approval That Stops the Job Before the First Cut Vegetation clearing on a civil job is regulated three ways at once — federal, state and local — and the approval that permits it also constrains when you may do it, how, how much, and who has to be … Read more
RESOURCES/WINNING STRATEGIES Irrigation, Rural Water and Farm Infrastructure: The Civil Market Outside the Council Boundary Irrigation districts, rural water corporations, catchment authorities and government efficiency programs buy rural water civil works continuously — channels, pipelines, regulators, storages, drains and farm infrastructure. The work is seasonal, it happens on private land, and it is bought by … Read more
RESOURCES/WINNING STRATEGIES Schools, Hospitals and Social Infrastructure: The Civil Packages Inside Someone Else’s Building Program State education and health capital programs are among the largest and steadiest construction pipelines in Australia, and almost every project inside them contains civil work. It is bought differently from road and utility work, it is constrained by term dates … Read more
RESOURCES/TENDER WRITING Demolition and Site Clearing: The Line Item That Is Actually a Licensed, Regulated Activity “Clear and grub” and “demolish existing structures” are two of the shortest lines in a civil bill of quantities and two of the most reliable sources of unpriced work. Behind them sit licensing you may not hold, a hazardous … Read more