Summary
This panel of pre-qualified suppliers provides access to suppliers under three categories:
- Imagery
- Elevation (LiDAR)
- Geospatial Analytics
Lead agency: Department of Transport and Planning
Conditions of use: Mandatory
Contract reference number: eServices Register Contract 2021
Arrangement type: Panel
Start date: 28 November 2021
End date: 27 November 2025
The Request for Tender opened on 13 May 2025.
The GDA Panel refresh tender is now available on www.tenders.vic.gov.au, enabling new suppliers or current suppliers who would like to extend their offerings an opportunity to join this closed panel for the next two years from November 2025 to November 2027. For details, see Display Tender RFT 2025-GDA.
Please take note of the following important information:
No Action Required for Current Suppliers (Unless Expanding to New Categories of Services)
If you are a current supplier on the GDA Panel and do not wish to extend your services into new categories, you do not need to respond to the tender. Your status will automatically roll over into the new term.
Extending Into New Categories
If you are interested in extending your service offering into new categories beyond what you were originally approved to deliver, you are only required to respond only to the relevant sections of the tender; you do not need to respond again to information you have previously provided to us.
Specifically, in this circumstance, you need to respond to sections:
- Page 3 and Page 4 “Mandatory requirement” and “Executive summary”
- Section 1: Solely as it relates to the new category offering
- Section 2: Solely as it relates to the new category offering
- Section 4: Solely as it relates to the new category offering
- Risk management
- Innovation and value adding
- Unique or rare offering and capabilities
- Section 5: Solely as it relates to the new category offering
All other sections can be left blank if you are already an approved supplier on the Panel.
New Contract /eServices Contract Update
Please note that we are undergoing final approvals for a new Master Services Agreement to apply to the GDA Panel and expect to have a copy for your review by 15 July, 2025.
We will provide further guidance regarding the review of any new contracts as soon as possible. In the meantime, please do not review or action any new contracts until you receive further instructions from us.
Should you have any questions or need clarification, please don’t hesitate to reach out to me at linda.zhang@transport.vic.gov.au
Key benefits
The key benefits of this Panel are:
- archive of previously acquired data and analytics products available to Victorian Government, state public entities and councils (subject to IP)
- management of all sourcing activities
- assistance in developing requirements
- streamlined procurement process
- standard terms and conditions
- pre-qualified and approved suppliers.
What's covered
This panel covers geospatial imagery, elevation and analytical products and services, including:
Imagery
- Imagery captures through either satellite, aircraft, drone, vehicle, pedestrian and watercraft
- True colour, near-infrared, panchromatic (ultraviolet), hyperspectral, thermal, radar and video imagery products
- Subscription services, scanning and restoration
Elevation
- LiDAR captures through either aircraft, drone, vehicle, pedestrian and watercraft
- Topographic, bathymetric, photogrammetric and sonar capture methods
- Products include point clouds, digital terrain models and digital surface models
- Subscription services
Analytics
- Bespoke remote sensing data analysis
- As-a-service web-based remote sensing data analysis
- Geospatial process automation development
- Manual feature extraction
- Bespoke feature extraction, artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms
- Commercial off-the-shelf feature extraction, artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms
- Textured and untextured models
- 3D model streaming
What's not covered
This panel doesn’t cover:
- building information models (BIM) – please use the eServices Register
- Digital Twin Victoria software and platform development – please use the eServices Register
- contract workers - please use the Staffing services panel
- temporary staff - please use the Staffing services panel
- hardware - please use the IT Infrastructure register
- professional services for software and hosting services – please use the eServices Register
- hosted services, including software as a service (SaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) – please use the eServices Register.
Commercial model
A management fee applies to purchases made through the panel.
Supplier details
Review the Geospatial Data and Analytics panel suppliers and view each supplier's approved categories.
How buyers join this contract
Please reach out with your requirements, our Business Engagement Team will assist you with the end-to-end procurement process.
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