Future assessments - WIA or other ??

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Requests for Tender (RFT), Statement of Works and Tender Replies are not a binding contract.

Once a preferred Tenderer is chosen, that is when the contractual negotiations begin. Once the negotiation period concludes, then a contract is finalised and signed - only then does it become (almost) binding.

Any and all items in the RFT can be renegotiated, and as it appears the ACMA dragged it's feet a little, the commencement date would have been one of those items.