Excellent Opportunities Offered By Survey Tender

In setting up of any industry or carrying out any project or developmental scheme, survey is indispensable and constitutes and integral part of the entire process of project implementation and installation. For instance; when a new industry would be coming up there would be initial feasibility survey that will be used to find out the viability of the project, water supply facilities, electricity, land and other benefits that could be required for successfully running the project. Numerous survey tenders are floated at regular intervals that can be found on popular media and Internet and many of these tenders are government tenders. 

 

Major Sources of Survey Tenders

As already pointed out government tenders constitutes majority of the survey tenders. Some of the major tenders in the public sectors are –

• Oil and natural gas source survey;
• Storage tanks pre-construction survey;
• Pipe line survey for oil and other industries;
• Land based survey;
• Mining survey tenders;
• Cadastral survey and other surveys for irrigation projects;
• Pre-construction survey in case of roads, buildings and other public projects;
• Transport survey;
• Census survey tenders;
• Educational, literacy, and other surveys;
• Animal survey;
• Forest based surveys; and
• Survey for water distribution or before taking up development projects.
  

Numerous other types of government tenders are there but these are some of the most widely used. 

 

Private Sector Survey Tenders

With growing industrialization and different types of industries coming up, a good deal of survey tenders is now generated in the private sector as well. Some of the most potent areas are –

• Power generation industries where pre-construction land and water surveys are essential;
• Refineries and oil industries;
• Civil Aviation industries;
• Waterways, transport and communication system related tenders;
• Land based survey for setting up of plants etc;
• Socio-economic survey for resettlement and rehabilitation of the project displaced and affected persons; and
• Feasibility surveys.
  
  
  

Why Survey Tenders?

Reasons why numerous survey tenders are floated at regular intervals from both the public and private sectors are that, these surveys provide the required information for taking the decision regarding launching, feasibility, or the relevance of the proposed work or project. At the same time with such tenders floated, it becomes easier for the floater to get the best at the cheapest. 

 

Requirements for the Bidder

Among all types of tenders, survey tenders are one where the bidder must have some basic knowledge and expertise in the related field on which the survey is carried out. Agencies coming up with tenders will look forward to the history and achievements of the bidder in the past in the field of survey and related works. Having a couple of experts in the subject of survey could immensely help in creating a favorable impression with the requiring agency. 

 

One basic difference between the private sector tenders and government tenders would be while the former would give preference to quality of work rather than the price; the latter will give priority to the combination of quality and affordable price.