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T04 26-27 Managed Services Provider for Information Technology (IT)

Issued by Quilpie Shire Council · via VendorPanel Public Tenders — Australian councils, agencies & utilities

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Published
15 Sept 2026
Closes
6 Oct 2026, 04:00 UTC
Reference
VP525687
Location
Queensland, Australia
Sector
IT & Telecom

Details

The Council is seeking to engage a suitably qualified and experienced Managed Services Provider (MSP) to provide comprehensive Information Technology (IT) managed services, including the ongoing management, support, maintenance and monitoring of Council’s IT environment to ensure reliable, secure and effective ICT operations.

Suitably qualified Tenderers with proven capability, capacity, and sound financial and technical background to deliver the Specification outlined in this Invitation to Tender are invited to participate in this Invitation to Tender process.

This Invitation to Tender has been prepared by Peak Services on behalf of Quilpie Shire Council.

Updates made to this request:

Please note: The following attachment has been recently added.

1. Amended: 1. T04 26-27 Request Summary.pdf

Removal of the reference to 'Business days' in the Cut off period for queries. Cut off is 4 Calendar days prior to the close of the request- Queries close 2 October 2026.

Thank you

Please note: The following attachment has been recently added.

In response to a query- The file lists Council’s physical servers, SAN, Cloud Key and tape drive, along with the virtual machine allocations and the recorded CPU, memory and storage information for each applicable item.

1. Added: Council_Server_Inventory.xlsx

Please consider this attachment when responding.

Buyer: Quilpie Shire Council

Buyer location: 50 Brolga St, Quilpie, Queensland 4480, Australia

VendorPanel reference: VP525687

Buyer's reference: T04 26-27

Opens: Tuesday 15 September 2026 (E. Australia Standard Time)

Closes: Tuesday 06 October 2026 02:00 PM (E. Australia Standard Time)

Supplier query cut-off: Friday 02 October 2026 02:00 PM (E. Australia Standard Time)

Expected decision: Tuesday 03 November 2026 (E. Australia Standard Time)

Categories: IT & Telecomms; 1: IT Services; 2: Services - Consultants; 3: Services - Internet Services; 4: Services - Maintenance Agreements; 5: Services - Managed Services; 6: Services - Security Management; 7: Services - Software Support & Maintenance; 8: Services - Support; 9: Software - Other; 10: Software - Programs

Regions of service: Queensland; 1: South West; All Regions of Service locations are within Australia.

Tender documents: 7

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Context for bidders

There are 26 open IT & Telecom tenders in Australia. This one closes in 7 days.

Before you bid on this tender

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