Australia : Requests for Expressions of Interests: National Heavy Vehicle Charging Pilot (UPDATED)

CLOSING DATE EXTENDED

The Australian Commonwealth Government Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications (DITRDC) has published on the Austenders website three Requests for Expressions of Interest in supplying services to support the Large Scale On-Road Trial which is part of the National Heavy Vehicle Charging Pilot.

The closing date is 17 August 2020 at 1400 (Australian Eastern Standard Time).

There are three Requests for Expressions of Interest, namely:

• for the provision of a telematics-based solution for collecting road use data to support a trial of direct heavy vehicle road user fees;
• for the provision of manual solutions for collecting road use data to support a trial of direct heavy vehicle road user fees; and
• for the provision of third party invoicing solutions for collecting and analysing road use data to support a trial of direct heavy vehicle road user fees.

You need an Austenders account (free to set up) to access the documents.  If you have one, they are available through the links for each of them as listed above.

There was a question and answer process following industry briefings for the trials, for which the answer document is here (PDF).

As can be seen by the titles, these are requests for expressions of interest to supply the services and equipment needed to deliver the Large Scale On-Road Trial, which is expected to have around 100 participant operators with around 1000 vehicles.  It will be a mock-billing trial, with participants receiving mock invoices (or purchasing mock permits) to simulate distance-based road user charging for heavy vehicles.

(Disclaimer: Milestone Pacific is technical advisor to the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications on this project)