Tenderer

Manteena was found to be the preferred tenderer by an evaluation team and offered a lower price but the evaluation criteria was re-weighted and Lendlease was given the contract.

Mr Cook said a ten-year operations contract would be awarded to the successful tenderer, with options to extend in five-year increments thereafter.

The ACT government chose the non-profit organisation as the preferred tenderer for the Mitchell and Mugga Lane recycling and reselling depots in a recent procurement process.

As well as orchestrating espionage on commercial organizations, governments can also be targets — for example, to determine the terms of a tender for a government contract so that another tenderer can underbid.