Where is the official notice?
Tenders WA is the official board for Western Australian public sector procurement: state agencies, infrastructure portfolios, and Common Use Arrangements: the standing arrangements agencies buy repeat categories through. Supplier registration is free. The national directory is where tenders are published; this page is the WA route underneath it.
Common Use Arrangements deserve the same gate as any panel: joining or qualifying is one pursuit, and each request under the arrangement is another. Rate files, call-off timing, and delivery geography still decide the call.
Which local-participation requirements apply?
Western Australia runs local industry participation policy (the framework historically known as the Western Australian Industry Participation Strategy) requiring suppliers on covered procurements to demonstrate local content, local jobs, and supply-chain commitments. The current policy name, scope, and thresholds sit with the WA government’s official procurement guidance; recheck them against the pack in front of you rather than relying on a remembered acronym. Do not invent a standard evaluation weighting from the policy’s existence; the pack’s evaluation schedule decides what the criterion is worth.
The general treatment of policy-as-criterion is on local content, SME and Indigenous targets. Where the criterion is a mandatory, unheld status is a no-bid. Where it is weighted, score it against evidence held today: local presence, WA subcontractors, apprenticeships, and supply-chain facts, not intentions.
The eligibility and evidence checklist
- Buyer identity. WA state agency, statutory body, or CUA user, not a council, not the Commonwealth.
- Registration. Free Tenders WA supplier account; arrangement-specific qualification where the notice requires it.
- Participation evidence. The local-content schedules, plans, or commitments the pack names, with figures you can deliver.
- Mandatories. Licences, insurances, and prequalification held at close, checked the way mandatory criteria describes.
- Delivery geography. WA sites, mobilisation, and response times priced before the gate, not discovered at review.
What does this mean for the bid/no-bid call?
An interstate firm bidding WA work without WA delivery evidence is bidding a participation criterion it cannot score. Partner locally, establish presence, or no-bid, made in week one, before the pursuit costs compound. Distance is capacity and risk, not a footnote.