Tender Details
REQUEST FOR INFORMATION - Nursery Management System to manage plants throughout their lifecycle
Business Name
City Of Gold Coast
VP Reference #
VP442303
Buyers Reference #
LG314/1185/25/002
Opens
Thursday 19 December 2024 (E. Australia Standard Time)
Closes
Tuesday 21 January 2025 03:00 PM (E. Australia Standard Time) CLOSED
Supplier query cut-off
Tuesday 21 January 2025 03:00 PM (E. Australia Standard Time)
Expected decision
Tuesday 04 February 2025 (E. Australia Standard Time)
Buyer Details
Business Name
City Of Gold Coast
Location
8-10 Karp Ct
Bundall, Queensland 4217
Australia
WebSite:
https://www.goldcoast.qld.gov.au/default.html
Business Info
The City of Gold Coast is the local government area spanning the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia and surrounding areas. With a population of 606,774. it is the second most populous local government area in Australia (City of Brisbane being the largest)
Contact Name
Isabella Galka
Position:
Business Partner Procurement
Primary phone:
07 5581 7314
Mobile phone:
None Provided
Fax number:
None Provided
Email:
igalka@goldcoast.qld.gov.au
What the buyer is requesting
Details
The purpose of this Request For Information (RFI) is to better understand suppliers in the market, their general capabilities, and potential solutions available for a Nursery Management System.

The City's Nursery Operations team operates a production nursery. It is currently responsible for managing over 100,000 plants per year. The City is seeking a new solution to effectively manage its plants throughout their lifecycle – assisting City staff with plant and related materials production, maintenance, orders, and the inventory management of plant stock and related materials.
Background information / Compatibility requirements
Details
Please refer to the attached RFI document for further information.
Desired Outcomes ('Nice to haves', Conditions & Warranties, SLA's, Project benefits)
Details
Ideally the software solution should be a commercial off-the-shelf solution rather than bespoke custom-built solution.
Supplier lists selected
Lists
  • Environmental & Heritage Services
  • IT & Telecomms
Categories selected
Categories
  • Environmental & Heritage Services
    1: Flora & Fauna Survey & Management Services
  • IT & Telecomms
    1: IT Services
    2: Software - Computer Software
    3: Software - Development
    4: Software - Other
    5: Software - Programs
    6: Software - SaaS
    7: Software - Sales
Regions of Service
Locations
  • Queensland
    1: Gold Coast

All Regions of Service locations are within Australia.
Information requested by others
24/Dec/2024 10:40 AM
Question:
I would like to request if it is possible at all to put an extension on the due date of this by a further week if possible, given it is Christmas holiday season and people will be on leave and may not get best chance to respond with a meaningful response.

Answered on 24/Dec/2024 10:54 AM:


The City will extend the deadline for RFI responses to be Tuesday 21 January 2025 at 3PM (Queensland time)
07/Jan/2025 03:31 PM
Question:
Is there an indication of total volumes of users required from the solution - including staff and contractors? total volumes would be great for pricing indications.

Answered on 08/Jan/2025 04:58 PM:


The total number of users is expected to be 5.
Updates made to this Request
24/Dec/2024 10:56 AM
The City has extended the deadline for RFI responses to be Tuesday 21 January 2025 at 3PM (Queensland time)