Emergency Management Logistics Framework
Tender Overview
About this tender
Overview Environment Canterbury Regional Council, on behalf of Canterbury Civil Defence Emergency Management (CDEM), is seeking a practical and scalable approach to maintaining and restoring the movement of people, goods and services throughout the Canterbury region during different scales of emergencies when normal logistics corridors are disrupted, degraded, or inoperable. Purpose Canterbury CDEM is seeking a shared, understood, and practiced logistics framework for Canterbury that enables rapid, coordinated movement of people and resources, even in degraded transport and supply chain conditions. Scope The framework will: Clearly articulate how people, goods, and services move across Canterbury under a range of hazard and impact scenarios Support logistics planning for small, medium, and large-scale events, including concurrent and cascading events Establish clear coordination mechanisms, roles, and responsibilities across Group Office, TAs, partners, and industry Improve regional readiness to sustain, surge, and recover logistics capacity during prolonged events Enable TA-level planning and operationalisation through practical templates and tools Enquiries Contact: Craig Prebble Phone: 0272395638
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