Each year, Power and Water purchases millions of dollars worth of goods, works and services.
Power and Water relies on local contractors and suppliers to deliver many of the Northern Territory's essential services. Our procurement activities play an important role in the health of the Northern Territory economy.
Our procurement process
Opportunities and guides
Current suppliers and contracts
Power and Water's procurement process
Our procurement process helps us make sound decisions that benefit Territorians and the local economy.
Our processes are based on a robust framework which integrates all aspects of procurement in a fair and transparent way. While we are a government-owned corporation, we operate under a separate independent framework.
Buying local
Our policy and framework aligns with the Northern Territory Government’s Buy Local Plan. Our tender assessment criteria includes a mandatory ‘Local Content’ criterion for all competitive procurement activities, with a minimum weighting of 30 per cent.
Procurement framework
Our procurement framework is designed to:
- encourage competitive tendering
- maximise financial returns
- deliver safe, reliable, efficient and cost-effective services
- support our vision.
Procurement sourcing rules
Procurement sourcing rules facilitate our procurement framework. Read these rules before finding opportunities to tender.
To help explain our specialised words and expressions, use our procurement jargon buster.
Standard terms and conditions
Our conditions of tendering and quoting are rules that apply to suppliers and Power and Water when throughout the tender and quotation process.
Please make sure you've read and understood the conditions that relate to the tender or quotation you're submitting.
We advertise and manage all tender opportunities through the Northern Territory Government's Quotations and Tenders portal. You can register to receive relevant opportunity alerts, as well as reminders of when tenders are about to close.
Selling to Power and Water
We aim to assist businesses with identifying new opportunities and succeed in the competitive tender process.
Guide for business
Our Selling to Power and Water Guide for business steps you through our procurement process.
The guide includes:
- a profile of the types of goods, works and services we procure
- the principles which help us in our decisions
- the rules and processes we follow to buy goods, works and services
- where to look for opportunities
- tips on preparing and submitting a tender
- the terms, acronyms or jargon you may encounter during the procurement process.
Get help with your tender submission
The Department of Trade, Business and Innovation also helps Territorians to prepare tender responses. They may be able to help with drafting a business plan, preparing financial statements or finalising your environment, health and safety plans.
If you have specific questions about a Power and Water procurement, you can email Strategic Sourcing directly.
Management of external service providers
External service providers form an important part of our workforce, especially when a specialist skill-set is required which is not available within Power and Water Corporation at the time.
Our process for the management of external service providers outlines how we will manage the relationships with external service providers and what you may expect when your services are engaged.
Let us know what you think
Provide feedback
We welcome your feedback to identify potential areas for improvement. Improving our procurement process and the standard of our documentation will ensure we continue to receive quality responses from our partners.
Please complete our feedback form to discuss ways to improve the procurement process.
Compliments and complaints
We aim to provide great services to all. Feedback from our customers and suppliers helps us to improve our service and business. If you've had a good or bad experience with us, let us know.
