The Torres Strait Island Regional Council (TSIRC) is seeking a professional Travel Management Services (TMS) provider. 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 ensuring accurate, timely reporting, analytics, and insights. The provider must also ensure traveler duty of care, cultural sensitivity, and accessibility. TSIRC anticipates aggregating its approximately $1. 8 million annual travel spend under this single preferred supplier arrangement. The tender opens on March 26, 2026, and closes on May 1, 2026.
The bid closes on Friday, 01 May 2026, at 04:00 am E. South America Standard Time.
The bid notice states that the principal shall pay the supplier the amount due to the supplier if any including any applicable gst before the end of the payment period, which is defined as the period ending 25 business days after receipt by the principal of the claim.
The bid notice states that the supplier warrants and represents that it has the experience, skills, expertise, resources and judgement, and holds all necessary competencies, licences, accreditations, qualifications, permits, clearances or other authorisations, which are required for the supplier to comply with its obligations under the contract and will maintain such competencies, licences, accreditations, qualifications, permits, clearances or other authorisations at all times until the supplier has completed its obligations under the contract.
The bid notice states that the supplier must have the experience, skills, expertise, resources and judgement, and hold all necessary competencies, licences, accreditations, qualifications, permits, clearances or other authorisations, which are required for the supplier to comply with its obligations under the contract and will maintain such competencies, licences, accreditations, qualifications, permits, clearances or other authorisations at all times until the supplier has completed its obligations under the contract.
The supplier query cutoff is Sunday, 26 April 2026, at 04:00 am E. South America Standard Time.
In FY2025, TSIRC spent approximately $1. 8 million with travel management agencies.