The call for EOI document should address:
• Maximising the scope for private sector innovation. Government’s service delivery objectives are to be expressed, as far as practicable, in terms of the essential outcomes and performance-based requirements, without identifying specific solutions
• The decision-making processes, including realistic time-frames and stages of the process
• The criteria for evaluating EOIs
• The Government’s preferred risk allocation position and requirements together with key issues, such as risk sharing, pricing of services, net community benefits, Government contributions and other regulatory aspects
• Australian and New Zealand industry and technology development considerations
The call for EOI document should also include:
• Relevant background material, including preliminary market assessment
• Environmental and land use planning studies and assessment and if the environmental planning, assessment and approvals process has been already undertaken by the agency, a copy of the approval conditions
• Limits on the size of EOI responses, to control bidding costs and simplify assessment
• Details of the manner in which intellectual property in the EOI will be treated and the methods for the identification of intellectual property
• A summary of the results of the public interest evaluation.
If an approval under the EP&A Act is to be based on an agency’s preferred site and design parameters, the agency should provide in the EOI documentation the approval conditions along with the Environmental Assessment (EA), Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), Statement of Environmental Effect (SEE), Review of Environmental Factors (REF), technical design and other relevant project information.
If there is no approval under the EP&A Act at this stage, the agency should provide in the EOI documentation any key information on the Department of Planning’s regional or sub-regional planning, preliminary options evaluation and any relevant preliminary environmental assessments and land-use planning studies, as well as the outcome of any preliminary community consultations.