The Australian Infrastructure Financing Facility for the Pacific (AIFFP) is the Australian Government’s specialist infrastructure financing program within the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. The AIFFP is an AUD4.55 billion facility investing in transformational infrastructure across a range of sectors in the Pacific and Timor‑Leste, including maritime, airports, energy, telecommunications, road transport and urban infrastructure. Export Finance Australia acts as the lender of record. The AIFFP provides financing to deliver quality infrastructure with a focus on strong social and environmental safeguards, generating local jobs and responding to the priorities of diverse communities. The AIFFP builds on Australia’s longstanding partnerships with the Pacific and its experience delivering quality aid programming that supports sustained development outcomes for communities. The AIFFP began operating on 1 July 2019 and has 57 signed infrastructure projects across the Pacific and Timor-Leste.

The AIFFP is managed by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, with support from Tetra Tech (the Support Unit). The AIFFP Support Unit provides advice and services to support the delivery of the AIFFP and its objectives.

AIFFP is seeking to engage a client-side advisory (‘the Consultant’) to support PNG Telikom Limited (‘Telikom’) with the contracting, implementation and integration of a Business Support System (BSS) with Virtual Wallet functionality (VW) (‘the New System’). Telikom is the project proponent and has overall responsibility for project delivery. 

Telikom is currently using two BSS systems. Telikom seeks to switch to a new, modern single BSS. Telikom envisages the new BSS will streamline billing processes, improve operational efficiency, and support long-term growth. It also wants to ensure a secure and trusted network that meets high-level industry standards during integration and ongoing operation. Telikom has conducted a procurement process for the New System and has identified a preferred supplier (‘the Supplier’). 

Telikom and AIFFP have identified a need for Telikom to be supported by the Consultant through the process of finalising a contract with the Supplier (‘Supply Contract’) and technical implementation and integration of the New System into Telikom’s existing IT environment and infrastructure. The Supplier would hold overarching contractual responsibility for implementation and integration of the New System. 

Services will be required from May until end June 2026, with a possible extension until 30 June 2027. The full requirements are set out in the terms of reference at Part B.

Principal

Tetra Tech International Development Pty Ltd, (ABN 63 007 889 081), a duly registered Australian company located at 422 King William Street, Adelaide, SA, 5000 Australia, referred to as ”Tetra Tech International Development” or “Tetra Tech International Development” as the managing contractor of the Humanitarian Logistics Capability (HLC) program on behalf of the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)

Requirements

Tetra Tech International Development Pty Ltd with the intention of forming a pre‑screened supplier panel for HLC, invites suppliers of critical logistics services to apply for this EOI. Services include air charter, freight forwarding, customs clearance, cargo screening, trucking, in country and other incidental services including storage and support. The panel will enable rapid mobilisation for humanitarian cargo movements while ensuring proportionate due diligence and appropriate corporate oversight of residual contractual risks.

SIAP SIAGA, a partnership between the Governments of Australia and Indonesia, has long supported the strengthening of disaster management systems at the national and subnational levels. Central to this effort is empowering communities to enhance resilience through the Disaster Resilience Village (DRV) framework that integrating community-based disaster risk management with climate change adaptation, and promoting and incorporating the Gender Equality, Disability, and Social Inclusion (GEDSI) principles. 

In NTT, SIAP SIAGA has worked closely with provincial and district governments, civil society organizations, and local communities to foster inclusive and adaptive disaster risk management strategies. By leveraging multi-stakeholder collaboration, the program seeks to enhance institutional capacities, promote evidence-based policy development, and ensure that disaster preparedness measures are responsive to the needs of vulnerable groups, including women, people with disabilities, and marginalized communities.

This RFP seeks to support two key initiatives— Building Community Resilience to Volcano Eruption through partnerships with local civil society organizations (CSO) in NTT Province.

The DRV component aims to enhance community resilience through inclusive planning, technical assistance, policy development, capacity building, and mobilizing local resources to create sustainable and adaptive community-based solutions. This initiative emphasize collaboration with CSOs, local governments, and customary institutions to ensure sustainability and long-term impact by leveraging local capacities and aligning with broader policy frameworks.

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Quality Assurance Auditor Pool – Strongim Wok Long TVET

• Short-term as required
• Travel within Papua New Guinea
• Open to international and PNG national candidates

Strategic communications and public diplomacy play a central role in supporting SWLT’s End of Program Outcomes, including enhancing Australia’s trusted and visible development partnership with Papua New Guinea and strengthening understanding of system reform over time.

Through this Request for Proposal Process, SWLT will establish a pre-qualified pool of copywriters and editors to provide high-quality writing, editing, and editorial advisory services on an as-needed basis. Services will support implementation of the SWLT Communications and Public Diplomacy Strategy and will contribute to the development of clear, evidence-informed, audience-led communications products aligned to agreed priorities and AHC clearance processes.

All written outputs will reflect disciplined narrative positioning, plain-language clarity, inclusion, safeguarding principles, and the Papua New Guinea–Australia partnership framing.

Strategic communications and public diplomacy play a central role in supporting SWLT’s End of Program Outcomes, including enhancing Australia’s trusted and visible development partnership with Papua New Guinea and strengthening understanding of system reform over time.

Through this Request for Proposal Process, SWLT will establish a pre-qualified pool of event management service providers to deliver high-quality, risk-aware, and strategically aligned event planning, coordination and management services on an as-needed basis.

Events supported under this Task Scope are not standalone activities. They are high-visibility public diplomacy moments that must reinforce reform narratives, partnership credibility, system coherence, and industry engagement in line with the SWLT Communications and Public Diplomacy Strategy. All public-facing events will be coordinated and cleared through agreed Australian High Commission processes.

Strategic communications and public diplomacy play a central role in supporting SWLT’s End of Program Outcomes, including enhancing Australia’s trusted and visible development partnership with Papua New Guinea, strengthening national quality systems, and improving the diversity and employability of technical college graduates.

Through this Request for Proposal Process, SWLT will establish a pre-qualified pool pre-qualified pool of creative content production suppliers to provide high-quality photography, videography, and animation services on an as-needed basis. Tenderers may apply for one or more service categories and must demonstrate capability for each category applied for.

Photography, videography, and animation will support implementation of the SWLT Communications and Public Diplomacy Strategy and contribute to making visible system reform, institutional strengthening, inclusive participation, employer engagement, and the Papua New Guinea–Australia partnership in a credible, disciplined, and audience-led way.

Content will be used across Australian High Commission-cleared platforms, Government of Papua New Guinea channels (as coordinated), partner amplification channels where agreed, and internal program reporting and knowledge products.

Assignments will be issued individually as required. Inclusion in the pre-qualified pool does not guarantee volume of work. Engagements will be issued on an assignment-specific drawdown basis

The scoping analysis will help inform Hanoi Post’s internal decision-making on positioning its future GEDSI portfolio in Vietnam, related to whether MSMEs can be an effective mechanism in creating decent job creation for women, as well as people with disabilities, ethnic minority women, and other under‑represented or disadvantaged groups in Vietnam (also referred to as women and GEDSI groups).

Hanoi Post recognises that GoV and development partners have provided various supports for the development of MSMEs in Vietnam over the years. The scoping analysis would assist DFAT to understand what has been learned from that support, in particular with the lens of decent job creation for women and GEDSI groups.

The report is for Hanoi Post’s internal use and will not be published.

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