The Bus Industry Confederation (BIC) is beginning to devise a standard guideline for measuring local content for Australian buses and coaches
It’s one of the burning issues for the bus and coach industry currently – in Australia, what makes up local content for the procurement of buses?
The Bus Industry Confederation (BIC) has announced it is beginning to investigate this question as it undertakes a major project to develop a standardised definition and calculation methodology for local content that can be adopted by state and territory governments.
The issue recently arose in BIC’s suppliers’ meeting in June, with BIC saying it aims to develop this process for measuring the local content of components and vehicles used in the bus supply chain industry.
The paper was drafted and sent for review, with the aim being to create a document that establishes the definition of local content before applying it to guidelines on a uniform basis.
BIC expects the project to take six months to complete, with the industry needed to help form these guidelines.
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“This initiative is seeking to achieve consistency between the states and territories about how local content is defined, applied and measured during both manufacture, assembly and operation,” BIC says in a LinkedIn post.
“This is for the whole supply chain of the bus industry.”
BIC will start by establishing a steering committee and is keen to involve representatives from Australian manufacturers and suppliers as well as international bodies.
To get involved, BIC says to contact national technical manager Dean Moule at dean.moule@bic.asn.au.