QLD Australia
WINDLAB PTY LIMITED
The Gawara Baya Wind Farm (previously known as Upper Burdekin Wind Farm) is located near the community of Mount Fox, northwest of Townsville in Queensland, Australia, approximately 180km by road via Ingham. The project is located on an active cattle property within Gugu Badhun Country in north Queensland, in close proximity to the existing electricity transmission network.
Gawara Baya Wind Farm will generate enough clean energy to power up to 300,000 Australian homes, eliminating more than 1.2 million tonnes of carbon emissions from the energy market every year while supporting overall improved outcomes for regional ecology through strong investment in innovative environmental management initiatives.
Windlab has an agreement with the pastoral landholder and an Indigenous Land Use Agreement with the Gugu Badhun Traditional Owners. The project has received a detailed connection enquiry response from Powerlink. The Commonwealth Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment has nominated the project as a Controlled Action requiring assessment and approval under the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act, with Windlab receiving EPBC approval in July 2024.
Windlab will be using the ICN Gateway to receive expressions of interest from all suppliers for this project and providing opportunities for local suppliers to work with directly with Windlab and with Windlab's main contractors.
Windlab will continuously update this EOI page to reflect new opportunities for engagement as the project continues.
Delivery schedule
With the support of stakeholders and the local community, construction may commence on the Gawara Baya Wind Farm in February 2025 after all regulatory approval requirements have been satisfied and the project has received the 'green light' to proceed.
Expression of interest
Windlab encourages local industries interested in supplying the project to register an expression of interest (EOI) through the ICN Gateway webpage.
Information on specific supply opportunities will be communicated on the ICN Gateway project page as it becomes available, with local industry able to register its interest against them.
Please ensure that:
- Your company profile on the ICN Gateway is complete, up-to-date, and accurate, including electing to be notified via e-mail of supply opportunities.
- You register your interest as a full or partial-scope supplier (where applicable), and
- You respond to all project and work package-specific questions.
It is important that businesses submitting an EOI are aware that their submission does not guarantee that they will progress further in the procurement process. Only companies that can demonstrate capability and capacity in accordance with Windlab's standards will be invited to pre-qualify for specific opportunities.
Further assistance
Windlab strongly encourages local industries to contact ICN Queensland in the first instance to improve their understanding of the EOI process.
Windlab's primary contact is:
Byron McGregor
Senior Commercial and Contracts Engineer
ICN hereby invites Expression of Interest (EOI) from respective trade contractors and suppliers for the Gawara Baya Wind Farm Project.
All EOI submissions should be made through the ICN Gateway.
Scope of works include:
- Mobile concrete batching plant
- Sand
- Cement
- Aggregates
- Formwork
- Concrete pouring and finishing
- Concrete pumping
- Precast products (culverts etc)
Note: You can fill out an Expression of Interest form exclusively on a computer or laptop device.
ICN hereby invites Expression of Interest (EOI) from respective trade contractors and suppliers for the Gawara Baya Wind Farm Project.
All EOI submissions should be made through the ICN Gateway.
Scope of works include:
- Clearing and grubbing
- Bulk excavation for roads, foundations and various pads
- Road construction
- Cable trenching
- Backfilling and compacting
- Blasting
- Soil stabilization
Note: You can fill out an Expression of Interest form exclusively on a computer or laptop device.
ICN hereby invites Expression of Interest (EOI) from respective trade contractors and suppliers for the Gawara Baya Wind Farm Project.
All EOI submissions should be made through the ICN Gateway.
Scope of works include:
- MV and HV Cables
- OPGW
- Communications cables
- Fiber optic cables
- Earthing cables/stakes
- Termination and jointing materials
- Conduit
- Thermal rated bedding sand
- HV equipment
- MV equipment
- Pre-fabricated switchboards/panels
- Transformers
- Control rooms
- Transmission towers/poles
Note: You can fill out an Expression of Interest form exclusively on a computer or laptop device.
ICN hereby invites Expression of Interest (EOI) from respective trade contractors and suppliers for the Gawara Baya Wind Farm Project.
All EOI submissions should be made through the ICN Gateway.
Scope of works include:
- Pest management
- Sediment fencing
- Rock check dams
- Native flora/fauna management
- Rehabilitation
Note: You can fill out an Expression of Interest form exclusively on a computer or laptop device.
ICN hereby invites Expression of Interest (EOI) from respective trade contractors and suppliers for the Gawara Baya Wind Farm Project.
All EOI submissions should be made through the ICN Gateway.
Scope of works include:
- Permanent fencing
- Permanent gates
- Cattle grids
- Permanent signage
Note: You can fill out an Expression of Interest form exclusively on a computer or laptop device.
ICN hereby invites Expression of Interest (EOI) from respective trade contractors and suppliers for the Gawara Baya Wind Farm Project.
All EOI submissions should be made through the ICN Gateway.
Note: You can fill out an Expression of Interest form exclusively on a computer or laptop device.
ICN hereby invites Expression of Interest (EOI) from respective trade contractors and suppliers for the Gawara Baya Wind Farm Project.
All EOI submissions should be made through the ICN Gateway.
Note: You can fill out an Expression of Interest form exclusively on a computer or laptop device.
ICN hereby invites Expression of Interest (EOI) from respective trade contractors and suppliers for the Gawara Baya Wind Farm Project.
All EOI submissions should be made through the ICN Gateway.
Scope of works include:
- Grouting of wind turbine towers and substation equipment
Note: You can fill out an Expression of Interest form exclusively on a computer or laptop device.
ICN hereby invites Expression of Interest (EOI) from respective trade contractors and suppliers for the Gawara Baya Wind Farm Project.
All EOI submissions should be made through the ICN Gateway.
Scope of works include:
Wet and dry hire of various plant and equipment including
- Earthmoving equipment
- Trenching machines
- Crushing plant
- Loaders
- Cranes
- Light vehicles
- Buses
- Water trucks
- Generators
- Forklifts
- Floats
Note: You can fill out an Expression of Interest form exclusively on a computer or laptop device.
ICN hereby invites Expression of Interest (EOI) from respective trade contractors and suppliers for the Gawara Baya Wind Farm Project.
All EOI submissions should be made through the ICN Gateway.
Note: You can fill out an Expression of Interest form exclusively on a computer or laptop device.
ICN hereby invites Expression of Interest (EOI) from respective trade contractors and suppliers for the Gawara Baya Wind Farm Project.
All EOI submissions should be made through the ICN Gateway.
Scope of works include:
- Rock
- Road base
- Aggregates
- Blue metal
- Sand
- Crusher dust
- Thermal rated bedding sand
Note: You can fill out an Expression of Interest form exclusively on a computer or laptop device.
ICN hereby invites Expression of Interest (EOI) from respective trade contractors and suppliers for the Gawara Baya Wind Farm Project.
All EOI submissions should be made through the ICN Gateway.
Scope of works include:
- Security personnel during construction
- CCTV
Note: You can fill out an Expression of Interest form exclusively on a computer or laptop device.
ICN hereby invites Expression of Interest (EOI) from respective trade contractors and suppliers for the Gawara Baya Wind Farm Project.
All EOI submissions should be made through the ICN Gateway.
Scope of works include:
- supply steel reinforcement bar and cages for concrete foundations
- steel fixing
Note: You can fill out an Expression of Interest form exclusively on a computer or laptop device.
ICN hereby invites Expression of Interest (EOI) from respective trade contractors and suppliers for the Gawara Baya Wind Farm Project.
All EOI submissions should be made through the ICN Gateway.
Scope of works include:
- Drainage & Flooding
- Ecological
- Topographical
- Cadastral
Note: You can fill out an Expression of Interest form exclusively on a computer or laptop device.
ICN hereby invites Expression of Interest (EOI) from respective trade contractors and suppliers for the Gawara Baya Wind Farm Project.
All EOI submissions should be made through the ICN Gateway.
Scope of works include:
- Site offices
- Ablutions
- Site lunch/crib facilities
- Fuel pods and fuel supply
- Sewerage treatment/disposal
- Store facilities
- temporary fencing and gates
- signage
- testing and tagging of electrical appliances
- maintenance of site facilities
Note: You can fill out an Expression of Interest form exclusively on a computer or laptop device.
ICN hereby invites Expression of Interest (EOI) from respective trade contractors and suppliers for the Gawara Baya Wind Farm Project.
All EOI submissions should be made through the ICN Gateway.
Scope of works include:
- General waste disposal
- Cleaning of site facilities
- Disposal of effluents
Note: You can fill out an Expression of Interest form exclusively on a computer or laptop device.
ICN hereby invites Expression of Interest (EOI) from respective trade contractors and suppliers for the Gawara Baya Wind Farm Project.
All EOI submissions should be made through the ICN Gateway.
Scope of works include:
- Cable laying and installation
- Trenching and backfilling
- Earthing
- Substation / Switchyard electrical works
- Testing
- Commissioning
- Communications and fibre optic cables
Note: You can fill out an Expression of Interest form exclusively on a computer or laptop device.
ICN hereby invites Expression of Interest (EOI) from respective trade contractors and suppliers for the Gawara Baya Wind Farm Project.
All EOI submissions should be made through the ICN Gateway.
Scope of works include:
- Hire/purchase of temporary buildings including all operation
equipment
- sewerage treatment plant
- bedding, furniture, appliances
- communications
- accommodation facility operations
- maintenance services
- waste disposal
- catering
- cleaning
Note: You can fill out an Expression of Interest form exclusively on a computer or laptop device.
