This is a public tender for Travel Management Services (TMS) for the Torres Strait Island Regional Council (TSIRC). The selected provider will be responsible for end-to-end travel booking, management, and support, including after-hours disruption handling. Key requirements include ensuring policy-compliant and cost-effective itineraries, providing strong controls for approvals, reconciliation, and audit, optimizing the use and recovery of travel credits, refunds, and waivers, and delivering accurate, timely reporting, analytics, and insights. The provider must also ensure traveller duty of care, cultural sensitivity, and accessibility. TSIRC anticipates an approximate spend of $1. 8 million in FY2025 and intends to establish a single preferred supplier arrangement for the contract term. The tender opens on March 26, 2026, and closes on May 1, 2026.
The contract completion time is June 30, 2029, with extension options of up to two further years as detailed in the scope.
The principal shall pay the amount due to the supplier, if any, including any applicable GST, before the end of the payment period, which is generally 25 business days after receipt of the claim.
The supplier warrants that the services will be fit for the purpose stated in or to be reasonably inferred from the contract, and that any design prepared by the supplier in relation to the work shall be in accordance with the requirements of the contract.
The supplier must have the experience, skills, expertise, resources, and judgement, and hold all necessary competencies, licences, accreditations, qualifications, permits, clearances or other authorisations required to comply with its obligations under the contract.
Supplier query cutoff is Sunday, April 26, 2026, 04:00 am E. South America Standard Time.
In FY2025, TSIRC spent approximately $1. 8 million with travel management agencies.
