Request to appoint a service provider (SP) to provide the Fisheries Management branch of the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) /MLRF to supply and deliver Laboratory Chemicals and Consumables for Flow Cam.

The Marine Living Resources Fund is looking for a service provider to supply and deliver laboratory chemicals and consumables to the Fisheries Management branch of the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment. The goods are required in connection with a FlowCam. The requirement is classified as goods, and the fund is the body issuing it. Beyond that, the material is thin. It does not state which chemicals or consumables are wanted, in what amounts, in what pack sizes, or to what specification. It does not say where the goods must be delivered, over what period, or whether delivery is to one point or several. Nothing is said about shelf life, storage conditions, lead times, or whether branded or equivalent products will be accepted. No estimated value or budget is given. No qualification, experience or registration requirements are set out, and no list of documents that a response must contain. The notice also does not indicate how many service providers may be appointed or whether the award could be split. A supplier reading this cannot tell what to price beyond a broad category of laboratory goods for a particle analysis instrument.