The Western Australian Government's Building Local Industry Policy requires Industry Participation Plans to be prepared for Government funded projects or contracts with a total value in excess of $20m, or where the value of capital equipment exceeds $1m.
The purpose of Industry Participation Plans is to provide a management strategy that outlines how Main Roads Western Australia and its Contractors, Suppliers, Sub-contractors and Alliance partners will commit to maximising opportunities for local industry participation in procurement opportunities - and to provide Western Australian and Australian industry with full, fair and reasonable opportunity to participate in major road construction and other infrastructure or capital contracts.
While the Policy requires an Industry Participation Plan for each project or contract, agreement has been obtained from the Department of Industry and Resources to implement a standard over-arching plan which will apply to most major road construction projects that are managed by Main Roads.
This plan can be viewed or downloaded from the link below:
This over-arching plan will, in most cases, negate the need to prepare individual plans for each project or contract. However, in some instances a project-specific Industry Participation Plan will still need to be prepared and this is to be determined through discussions with the Department of Commerce.
The 'Building Local Industry Policy and Procedural Guidelines' can be accessed from the Department of Commerce website at http://www.commerce.wa.gov.au/ScienceInnovation/PDF/Publications/publications_industrydevelopment.html.