Bushfire Resilience Specialists
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About this tender
Overview The Bushfire Resilient Communities (BRC) unit, within the Bushfire Resilience and Operational Support (BROS) branch of the Queensland Fire Department (QFD), is seeking to establish a Standing Offer Arrangement (SOA) with a panel of specialist consultants. The BRC unit is responsible for the carriage of several QFD functions and is seeking specialist support to deliver critical projects, including Vegetation Hazard Class (VHC) mapping as part of the ongoing RFSQ bushfire hazard mapping program. Purpose The BRC unit engages specialist services and expertise from time to time to support the development of products and services, including Bushfire Prone Area (BPA), Vegetation Hazard Class (VHC) and Vegetation Structural State (VSS) mapping, and land use planning functions. These services are required to support fluctuations in service delivery requirements beyond the capacity of the BRC unit, ensuring time critical program delivery, including the provision of up-to-date and accurate bushfire hazard mapping. This work supports the mitigation of bushfire risks to communities through hazard map development, land use planning, and training and support programs, and is undertaken in line with Government commitments, including the provision of advice on several high-priority development proposals. Scope The panel of specialist consultants will provide services in the following fields: Vegetation Hazard Spatial and Modelling Services: delivery of specialist vegetation models, machine learning tools and spatial products to support interpretation of vegetation attributes Bushfire Ecological Services: specialist site assessments, reporting and product development regarding fire ecology, vegetation assessment and fuel hazard characteristics Bushfire Risk, Planning and Policy Services: delivery of specialist bushfire assessments and application of knowledge in bushfire risk assessment, plan making, statutory planning and policy development The BRC unit is seeking to engage consultants to undertake four key projects: VHC mapping for the Far-North Queensland and Cape York Planning Regions (pending sufficient budget), and Land Use Planning studies for the Western Downs Bushfire Risk and Resilience Strategy Project VHC, VSS and Vegetation Structure Attribute (VSA) field surveys across key locations in Queensland to support spatial modelling of vegetation parameters used as inputs to BPA mapping Development of a long term, evidence-based spatial methodology to identify bushfire risk, applying key hazard and risk considerations such as vegetation structure and landform through existing hazard mapping products, as well as developing risk inputs to build a bushfire risk model Development of a long term, evidence-based bushfire management strategy for the Western Downs Regional Council (WDRC), applying forward-looking bushfire hazard and community risk profiles to achieve critical community safety and resilience outcomes
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