NSW power line contract

[McGowan]

Any truth to the rumour that a Kiwi Company got the Transgrid contract to do the thermal inspections in the Sydney, Newcastle and Tamworth areas ????????????

[belly tank]

MAC
Have a look at https://tenders.nsw.gov.au/transgrid/shared/rftdetail.cfm?p_id=9246&p_criteria=Q57%2F06&p_advert=0&p_displayContext=front-end
do a quick google and their head office is in NZ WWW.HELIWING.COM

[bomb]

Whats happening to the Industry when this sort of nonsense is allowed to happen. To come from across the Ditch, cross hire a jetranger and beat every other Aussy company to the work on there back doorstep. Makes a mockery out of Australian businesses := supporting other Australian businesses.:= := :=

Just my thoughts.

Bomb

[McGowan]

Belly tank,
Looked at their website, seems they have been here a while. Must have an aircraft based here to do the job. They also have an impressive resume, so not much to complain about really. But as bomb says, an Aussie company like Transgrid should support Aussie based companies were possible.

[imabell]

so transgrid is an australian company is it????????????????

[HeliDriverNZ]

Bomb no offence but its not much different to Aeropower coming to NZ to do power contracts same deal

[Texdoc]

Who can tell why they choose who they do with out being privvy to the tender process..., another Aussie company has thier contract for a different area of NSW.

[maxeemum]

"The cheapest tender wins"

Therfore how many dollars left over to cover the margins, ie the SAFETY margins!

Max


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[canterbury crusader]

Lets say insurance costs 5% of the hull and for arguments sake the hull is worth $750,000. That makes your annual insurance bill $37,500. Now divide that by the 200 hrs the more expensive operator flys each year and you get an insurance cost of $187.50 per hour.

Now assume the cheaper operator flys 700 hrs per year, that equates to $53.60 per hour for insurance.

That equates to a difference in costs to the operators of $134 per hour which can be passed on to the client if the operator wishes (highly recommended if your chasing work). Now lets say the contract is 200 hrs (not uncommon).

If the saving is passed on the client will save $26,800. Dont see how that affects safety, in fact the power line company will probably be flying with an operator who does alot of that kind of work with pilots who are far more current and experienced (based on the company flying 3.5 times as much as the more expensive operator).

This is in no way related to the tender in this topic, Im just trying to show that a cheap hourly rate doesnt necessarily mean that company is skimping on maintenance. there are plenty of other factors that effect the hourly rate which can be reduced by flying more hours (pilots, finance, advertising, premises and so on.

Hope this is helpful