Understand tenders. Build local capability.
A public workbench for North Stradbroke Island / Minjerribah: where to watch, how tenders differ from grants, and how local companies, community crews and trusted partners can build capacity before responding.
The practical tender ladder.
Start with the live sources, then test whether the opportunity is worth the effort. Some future-facing ideas will first be rehearsed through film, story, game-world or simulation layers. If they begin to touch real grants or tenders, the next step is to qualify the vehicle, partners, permissions and proof.
Source map
Official places to watch
Council, Queensland, Australian Government and First Nations procurement pathways in one calm map.
Watchlist
Search with a steady rhythm
Keyword lanes, source watches and awarded-contract learning habits for Straddie-relevant work.
Automation lane
Weekly keyword search
Structured search terms and timeline data so agent runs can update tenders for other pipelines.
Readiness
Know the right role
Plain-English checks for company setup, partners, pricing, criteria, permissions and qualification signals.
What is already connected?
The lab is standalone, but it has obvious friends: grants for funding, the ledger for public proof, Ready S.E.T. and Sandworm as optional future-work targets, Mineral Moonshots for major opportunity framing, and the Civilisation of Sand epoch for long-range systems thinking.
Focal companion projects.
These links are deliberately placed in the body of this new site. Existing repo menus do not need to be disturbed for the tender lab to be discoverable.