Plan to use local suppliers for BCM

The Queensland Procurement Policy requires capable and competitive local suppliers to be given a full, fair and reasonable opportunity to supply to government.

You are required to apply a 'local benefits test' to all high-expenditure or high-risk procurement.

Assess risk for your project to find out if it's high risk.

For building construction and maintenance (BCM) procurement the local benefits test usually applies to:

• high risk or significant (HRS) building projects
• standing offer arrangements (SOAs)
• recurring or ongoing contracts.

Additional agency criteria

Ask your agency contact if your organisation has additional criteria that apply.

Plan to involve local suppliers

• Know your market and make sure local suppliers have opportunities to tender.
• Match local market capability to the tendering opportunities. (e.g. If a region has construction capability, but limited design capability, a design and construction contract may prevent local contractors from bidding.)
• Participate in regional pre-delivery planning to maximise local participation.
• Give the market enough notice to prepare.
• Apply non-price criteria when evaluating tenders.

Guidelines

• Optimising opportunities for local suppliers
• Local benefits test

More information

• Read the making it easier for local business strategy.
• Consider the Queensland Charter for Local Content and the related:
  • tenderers' guidelines (837KB)
    and
  • agency guidelines (1.1MB).
• Best practice principles (461 KB) must be applied to major projects.