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Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP)

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Creation of a Panel of Providers for Endurance Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) Services

Request for Tender (RFT): 332873

This tender aims to create a panel of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) Endurance service providers for use by DELWP. RPAS are also known as Drones and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV). The use of RPAS is being considered for a variety of roles within the Department. The creation of the Panel will identify qualified, accredited and validated suppliers that can be engaged to assess the use of RPAS for such DELWP activities including, but not limited to:

RPAS are remotely piloted aircraft that can add value to the delivery of DELWP services through:

• Planned burn (bush fire) Operations
• Hazardous Tree Identification,
• Coastal Marine Erosion Monitoring,
• Accurate localised weather measurements,
• Animal Welfare Surveys,
• Asset Remediation Projects,
• Compliance Operations,
• Feral Animal Management Programs,
• Flood Monitoring and Storm Damage Management,
• Identification of Environmental and Structural Hazards,
• Protected Species Management and Wildlife Surveys,
• Road and Bridge Management Inspections and Maintenance Monitoring,
• Water management, Dam status and infrastructure condition assessments,
• and other air, land and water environment applications for DELWP.

This tender aims to create a panel of service providers with a high endurance RPAS capabilities that can effectively operate beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS), at high altitude above 400 feet (~ 122 meters) Above Ground Level (AGL) for long range flights of more than 4 (four) continuous hours of flight using a range of technology to capture and transmit images, video and other measurements (data) for use by DELWP services.

High quality aerial video and thermal imagery capability with location based information will assist DELWP to deliver more effective and safer planned burn operations and identification of hazardous trees.

There is also a potential to expand the usage of RPAS to utilise the cost effectiveness of these systems to deliver detailed geographically referenced imagery and video in the assessment of other hazards applicable on the roads managed by DELWP as well as providing specific data on animal investigations in large remote areas.

RPAS products/services, include (but not limited to):

• Live and recorded high resolution geographically referenced and orthorectified images and videos in the visible, thermal infra-red spectrum with corresponding meta-data.
• Live and recorded transmission and display of those images and videos with location information to both on-site and off-site operations teams via mobile and internet network access.
• Geographic tagging (marking) objects of interest, such as hazardous trees, in those images and videos.
• Other data products of interest include LiDAR, photomosaic imagery and other measurements.

This new panel of providers will supplement/complement an existing panel of RPAS providers that operates under 400 feet (~122 meters) AGL for some of the DELWP services listed above.

An assessment will be undertaken during the engagement period to determine how RPAS were utilised and performed and to potentially propose how the most cost effective service providers may be transitioned into DELWP business operations and engaged to further the Departments objectives.

This will be a closed panel that will be in place until 31 July 2018, with an option for two one year extensions which will be at DELWP’s sole discretion.

This tender release is provisionally set to open on Wednesday, 08 February 2017 and close at 2.00 PM, Thursday, 09 March 2017.

The tender will be released on the eServices Ariba platform located on the website below:

https://service.ariba.com/Sourcing.aw/128527010/aw?awh=r&awssk=HsTLK0iI&dard=1&ancdc=1

Vendors who are NOT registered on the eServices Ariba platform are advised that they must register at the following link:

http://www.procurement.vic.gov.au/State-Purchase-Contracts/eServices-Register/Supplier-Registration