Australian Public Service (APS) Upskill Training Package on Disability (24 Feb 26)

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Australian Public Service (APS) Upskill Training Package on Disability

Client

Department of Health  Disability and Ageing

Closing Date and Time

2pm, 24 Feb 2026

Background

An organisation that can facilitate the design and delivery of a disability led and informed APS Upskill Training Package on Disability. This APS training package will be hosted on the APS Academy website, free of charge. The training package will educate and inform Australian Public Servants (APS) on how, when and why to consider and include people with disability while developing new policy proposals, managing projects/programs and delivering services.

Scope of Work

Core Modules (Pre-requisites for all other modules)

  • Introduction to Disability Inclusion
    • Overview of disability in Australia
    • Summary of legal and ethical obligations: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Commonwealth legislation
    • Australia’s Disability Strategy 2021-2031.
    • Lived experiences: barriers and opportunities
  • Accessible Communication
    • Principles of accessible information
    • Formats and technologies (including AI and emerging technologies)
    • Case studies: impact of inaccessible communication
    • TBC: specifics on Associated Plan on Accessible Information and Communication: As part of the response to the Disability Royal Commission, the Australian Government is working with state and territory governments to develop an Associated Plan on Accessible Information and Communication under Australia’s Disability Strategy 2021-2031. The Associated Plan is expected to be released by the end of 2027.

Specialist Modules (Role-Specific)

  • Policy Development & Implementation
    • Inclusive policy design
    • Consultation with people with disability
  • Program/Project Management
    • Embedding accessibility in program/project delivery
    • Monitoring and reporting on inclusion outcomes
  • Service Delivery
    • Frontline engagement strategies
    • Responding to diverse needs (e.g., vision, hearing, cognitive, cultural, LGBTIQA+ and intersections of these).

Co-Design and delivery: modules are to be co-designed and delivered by/with people with disability; include real-world scenarios and problem-solving activities; in an interactive online format, hosted on the APS Academy website, free of charge

 

Evaluation Criteria

  

1Capability:
 

Solution

The extent to which the Tenderer’s proposed service delivery methodology / solution meets the Requirements of the Statement of Requirement.

 

Collaboration

The extent to which the Tenderer can demonstrate collaborative, cooperative and proactive working relationships with a broad range of stakeholders to deliver high quality services that meet the Statement of Requirement. For example, the Department, other government agencies, subcontractors, consortium members and other service providers.

 

Flexibility and Improvement

The extent to which the Tenderer can demonstrate:

  • An ability to provide services in a flexible and adaptable way so as to accommodate changing Commonwealth policy;
  • An understanding of the needs of the Department; and
  • An ability to continuously improve its provision of services over time.
 

Performance

The extent to which the Tenderer understands and is able to meet the reporting and quality management requirements of the Statement of Requirement, including in relation to:

  • The Tenderer is able to demonstrate it can provide appropriate incident management and reporting and respond to emergency requests from the Department; and
  • The extent to which the Tenderer can meet the specified performance standards or has proposed appropriate and achievable performance measures.
 

Transition

The quality of the Tenderer’s proposed transition-in plan and how the Tenderer can demonstrate it will achieve a successful transition of Services, without disruption or degradation to current service delivery.

2Capacity:
 

Organisation

The extent to which the Tenderer has the organisational capacity, including suitable resourcing and governance arrangements, to meet the Requirements and provide the outcomes described in the Statement of Requirement.

 

Personnel

The extent to which the Tenderer has sufficient Personnel or can source personnel with the experience, ability, skills and qualifications to perform the Requirements of the Statement of Requirement within required timeframes.

3Experience:
 The extent to which the Tenderer has demonstrated experience and quality of performance in providing goods/services the same as, or similar to, the Requirement to other organisations
4Pricing

 

Budget

To be quoted.

 
 

 

Key dates

Closing date

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