Mortuary and Bereavement Support Standing Offer for Services - Request for Tender

The Commonwealth of Australia (CoA), represented by the Department of Defence, intends to establish a Panel to provide the CoA and Permitted Agencies with additional capacity, surge capacity and capability in a range of mortuary and bereavement support services. The scope of Services provided includes a range of Disaster Victim Identification and repatriation of human remains services. This includes the provision of specialised equipment, arranging for incident response teams to be deployed primarily at non-Australian locations and within Australian jurisdictions, and the provision of bereavement support to persons, families and/or groups as directed by the Commonwealth. The CoA is seeking to establish a mortuary affairs and bereavement service capability that increases its ability to respond to incidents and surge.