How we help Australian roads and highway maintenance and construction companies win tenders
Australia has an extensive road network. As a result there are constantly road maintenance works required to be carried out across the country. Depending on the location of the roads, tenders are often released by Government Agencies, local Councils, state government and even private organisations for road and highway maintenance works.
Our team of tender and bid writers is experienced in helping construction (Tier-1, Tier-2 and Tier3), maintenance and trades companies across Australia write and win bids for road maintenance tenders.
Our team has helped clients secure government contracts for a range of roads maintenance services including:
Pavement Maintenance – We have helped companies write tenders to provide all types of pavement maintenance services. These include contracts for covering potholes and cracks, undertaking Seal Coating to protect asphalt surfaces and completing concrete repairs including crack repair, spalling a joint failures. Most of the time, this involves writing bids to local Councils, Shires and municipalities for paving and coving works as well as concreting.
Drainage maintenance and construction – We have helped many civil construction and plumbing/hydraulic services companies win contracts for the provision of drainage works and maintenance. These have included for cleaning and repair of drains, maintenance of ditches and the supply, installations and upgrade of stormwater systems. We have also helped clients win bids to provide vegetation control (mainly horticultural and landscaping companies) as well as erosion control.
Bridge construction and maintenance – We have helped our clients with government and private sector contracts for a broad range of bridge maintenance and upgrade works such as deck repairs, joint repair and substructure repairs (and inspections). Bridges are a highly specialised area and we have some exposure to and knowledge of terminology of the field and have worked well with engineers to extract the information and write a compelling response.
Other road safety and maintenance works: In addition to road maintenance tenders, we have also written tenders for road safety improvements and other associated road safety works. These include Line Marking, Signage Installation and Replacement, Guardrail installation and repair, traffic signal maintenance, street lighting maintenance and the design installation and maintenance of road furniture.
Our strategies to write winning roads and highway maintenance tenders
Over the years, we have developed significant know-how on how to win roads maintenance tenders. Key strategies we use include:
- Developing a clear understanding of the scope – you need to understand the scope of works and read between the lines of what the client is looking for. For example, once you assess and understand the technical scope, there may be other requirements such as the employment of Indigenous employees which is critical to the result. We will tailor your tender response to ensure it addresses these needs.
- Compliance – make sure you comply with all the requirements. Regardless of if you are working on a local government RFP / RFT, state government or federal government contract, you need to comply with the mandatory criteria. This includes insurance requirements and a range of licenses (such as traffic control). Taking the time to comply is key.
- Safety and Environmental Plans – These need to be comprehensive and address all relevant impacts of compliance and regulations.
- Win themes – A win theme or strategy addresses the criteria of the tender but tries to add value on top of that to alleviate some of the burdens from the Procurers Company or organisation. For Road maintenance tenders this can be achieved through the utilisation of a wider range of operations, policies, and methodologies. In other words, the more your company can do, the better.
- Answering the Questions – It is important to answer the tender evaluation criteria in its entirety whilst answering the questions in the tender response. Though there are a few rare cases where a tender may not have actual questions and merely present you with evaluation criteria, understand that this occurrence is rare, and more so for Road maintenance tenders.When answering the questions you must use a positive tone that is both concise and fact-filled. A good strategy for accomplishing the correct structure in your tender response is to complete and re-edit multiple drafts and cut your sentences as you go, ensuring only the most relevant and positive pieces of information make it through to the final tender draft.
Our tender writing consultants help you win roads maintenance tenders
At The Tender Team, we believe in hard-work, diligence, and passion. We strive to ensure all of our clients are always up to speed and we are always easily reachable with our 24/7 availability. Our writers have a wide range of experience servicing multiple industries and have a successful track record in tenders to show.
We service clients nationally, including Tasmania, Northern Territory, Rural NSW, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia. We have experience writing bids to governments across Australia at all levels – and bring this experience to the tenders and bids we write for clients.
Jason Cooney – our Director, as well as a number of our team members, have in-house experience working for major infrastructure and Tier-1 construction projects across the country such as John Holland and Hanson Yuncken.
By working with The Tender Team you are not only investing in an initial tender writing service by laying the foundations that your business or organisation can use for future growth. We not only provide you with an exceptional Tender response but the foundations you need for all your future tender writing.
We are available 24/7 and offer a free consultation over the phone on 0410 448 770 so call now!
