Built in 2005, Paradise Dam is located on the Burnett River about 20km north-west of Biggenden and 80km south-west of Bundaberg.

In 2010, 2011 and 2013, Paradise Dam experienced a series of significant flood events. The floods resulted in damage to the primary spillway apron and scouring of the riverbed. A subsequent dam safety review, comprehensive risk assessment and associated studies identified the need for longer term improvements to the dam. Following emergency dam repair works to lower the primary spillway, in December 2021, the Queensland Government announced the preferred option for the long-term future of Paradise Dam was to return the dam to its original full supply level, as part of significant safety improvement works.

Paradise Dam Improvement Project (PDIP) works will include:

• buttressing with mass concrete across the primary and secondary dam spillways and left abutment wall
• new training walls
• extending the existing downstream apron
• raising and replacing sections of the secondary spillway.

The project will ensure that Paradise Dam meets the stringent safety criteria that apply to all dams in Australia.

DELIVERY SCHEDULE

The construction timeline for the Paradise Dam Improvement Project (PDIP) will be determined with Sunwater's Alliance partners during an Alliance Development phase, due to be complete by April 2024. The construction alliance partners are the primary procurement entity and will form an Alliance with Sunwater and the designer Non-Owner Participant (NOP).

EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

Sunwater encourages local industry interested in supplying to the project to register a general 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 suppliers that can demonstrate capability and capacity in accordance with Sunwater's requirements will be invited to pre-qualify for specific opportunities.

FURTHER ASSISTANCE

Sunwater strongly encourage local industry to contact ICN Queensland in the first instance to improve their understanding of the EOI process.

Sunwater's primary contact is:

Belinda Sarafov

Principal Procurement Advisor - Infrastructure

Belinda.Sarafov@sunwater.com.au