An independent tender that doesn't waste anyone's time.

We build the brief from your existing data, invite a vetted panel, run the response window, normalise the prices against your current rates, and hand over an admin-reviewed shortlist with structured pricing matrices. A$25,000 ex-GST per tender. No success fees, no carrier kickbacks.

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What's in the engagement

Eleven steps. Three weeks. One handover deck.

/ Step 01

Intake — 13 sections

Legal entity, lane footprint, freight types, compliance gates, weighting preferences, sustainability scope. Auto-saves as you go. Pre-fills from your audit if you have one.

/ Step 02

Data pack

Lane profile, rate cards, sample invoices, manifest data. You decide what's shared with carriers and what's redacted.

/ Step 03

Carrier panel selection

Invite from our vetted Australian carrier panel master, or upload your own. We auto-suggest based on your lane mix and freight types.

/ Step 04

RFP generation

HTML brief plus a structured pricing-matrix CSV per carrier. Identical scope across the panel — apples-to-apples responses by construction.

/ Step 05

Response window

14-day default. Carrier portal is single-link, no signup. Open / opened / submitted statuses tracked. Reminders fire on day 7 and day 12.

/ Step 06

AI review + admin scoring

Each response scored on compliance, capability, commercial, and sustainability. Pricing normalised against your current rates. Admin reviews and overrides before handover.

Why it works

Because nobody on our side gets paid by the carrier you pick.

The dirty secret of freight tendering is that most consultants take a fee from the winning carrier, sometimes openly, sometimes not. The result: tenders that look competitive but were structurally biased toward whoever pays the consultant. The brief is shaped to favour them. The scoring is shaped to favour them. The shortlist arrives pre-cooked.

We don't take that money. Our income is the A$25,000 tender fee, regardless of which carrier wins, regardless of how much you save, regardless of whether you switch carrier at all. The brief is the same for everyone. The scoring is published. The pricing matrices are exportable.

If your incumbent advisor won't disclose what they get from carriers, that's the answer.

What you get back

A handover deck that works as a board pack.

Want ongoing oversight? Upgrade to managed service within 90 days and your A$25,000 tender fee (or A$30,000 bundle) credits against future managed service months. See the managed service →

Pricing matrices

One CSV per carrier, all in the same structure. Per-lane, per-mode, per-band. Easy to drop into any analytics tool. The same matrices we used to score.

Normalised pricing comparison

Each carrier's submission compared lane-by-lane against your current contracted rates. Where they're cheaper, where they're not, with absolute and percentage deltas.

Compliance + capability scoring

Each carrier scored on the gates you set during intake — insurance, ISO, OH&S, sustainability reporting, lane coverage. Anything failed is captured explicitly.

Shortlist + recommendation

An admin-reviewed shortlist with rank, recommended split, and the rationale. You're free to override; the underlying data is exportable so any successor can re-run the analysis.

What we don't do

We don't pre-cook shortlists. We don't take rebates from winning carriers. We don't charge a percentage of the savings you do or don't realise. We don't lock you into a multi-year advisory retainer.

What we do

Run a tender that any of your stakeholders could verify on their own. Hand over the data, not a sales pitch. Charge a flat fee that doesn't move with the outcome.

You can run another tender in twelve months. Same flat fee. Same methodology. Different panel if you want.

Ready to run a tender that's actually independent?

A$25,000 ex-GST per tender. Flat. Or bundle with the audit for A$30,000 and save A$4,990.

Or email hello@tlksource.com.au to talk through scope first.