Muswellbrook Marketplace Asset Renewal - Lift Replacement
Tender Overview
About this tender
The project involves the renewal of the existing passenger lift located within the Muswellbrook Marketplace facility. The existing lift is more than 20 years old and has reached the end of its operational life. In recent years, it has experienced frequent breakdowns, extended downtime, and increasing maintenance requirements, resulting in reduced reliability and higher operational costs. Technicians engaged to service the lift have advised that significant investment is required to restore long-term reliability and compliance. Through this Request for Tender (RFT), Council is seeking submissions from suitably qualified contractors for either: Option 1 – Modernisation of the existing lift system; or Option 2 – Complete removal disposed and replacement with a new machine-room-less (MRL) lift. Council will evaluate both options to determine which solution provides the best overall value, considering technical compliance, whole-of-life cost, operational performance, reliability, maintainability, project delivery, and long-term asset outcomes. The project forms part of Council's broader asset renewal program to improve accessibility, reliability and operational continuity across Council-managed facilities
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