Scenario Your third assessment will look at the tender process in more detail. Your company has a taken on a project to modify a 1970s era primary school and has received tenders for the work. The project: The existing school library building is beyond economical repair. This is to be demolished and a new single level, corrugated steel roof and timber weatherboard clad structure will be built in its place to provide a new library and administration hall. There will need to be fire protection between this new building and adjoining existing classrooms

Budget: A budget of $390,000 (exclusive of GST) has been approved by the Ministry of Education (MoE). As the cost of work exceeds $100,000, the MoE requires the opportunity to undertake the work to be open to all suitably qualified building contractors. The Board of Trustees have said they would like to support the community by engaging a local construction company, and because it is a school, clear start and finish dates for the work are required

Task 1: Evaluate a tender Your manager has asked you to evaluate tenders for the school project in the scenario. We have provided six examples of tenders in the appendices. Study all six tenderers and determine which tenders do not comply with the conditions of tender and must be discarded. Part A: Tender compliance

For each discarded tenderer, write a short overview and: name the discarded tenderer state the condition(s) of tender the tenderer has breached explain why each of the breached conditions are tender requirements. Part B: Tender summary tender summary spreadsheet for the remaining tenderers. This spreadsheet should include: a trade summary of prices compared to the QS cost estimate analysis of variations and tags a note of start/finish times.

Part C: Preferred tenderer and rankings basic table (using Word) that summarises the results of your analysis in Part B and ranks them from most preferred to least preferred tenderer. For each tender, summarise and justify your ranking decision in the table

Task 2: Tender Documents basic word document to explain the purpose of the following documents: drawings, specifications and schedule of quantities (SoQ) conditions of tender and tender documents general and special conditions of contract. Explain how the documents can relate to laws and/or regulations.

Task 3: Tender Process

basic word document to discuss: the process that would happen if one tenderer had made a mistake in one of their trade summaries the process that would happen if a leading tenderer priced an alternative product. Attempt to provide a contextualised example in your response for each bullet point.