Tender for Medium & High Priority Water Acquisition – Burdekin/ Haughton

TENDER INVITATION FOR MEDIUM PRIORITY & HIGH PRIORITY ACQUISITION – BURDEKIN HAUGHTON WSS

Sunwater is inviting tenders for the acquisition of medium priority (MP) and high priority (HP) term allocations of water from Burdekin Falls Dam.

Customers can make offers for up to 42,000ML of MP and 5,000ML of HP water for a minimum 10-year term allocation, with Sunwater to assess applications based on considerations that include offer price, proposed contract length and volume required.

The tender process opens on Saturday 2 March 2019 and closes on Friday 29 March 2019 at 4.30pm.

The invitation to tender is available to all customers, but customers in the Lower Burdekin area – which is currently suffering from rising groundwater levels – will need to demonstrate that their water usage will not impact groundwater levels.

How to lodge your tender:

Customers can access tender documents by visiting http://www.sunwater.com.au/water-for-sale/expression-of-interest or calling Sunwater on 13 15 89.

Customers can lodge their tender in accordance with the tender documents by sending tenders to [email protected] or to Sunwater’s postal address.

The deadline for tenders is 4:30pm on Friday 29 March 2019.

Sunwater expects to be in contact with tenderers to advise of an outcome of the invitation to tender process within 6 months from the closing time.

Les Elphinstone
Manager KCGO