About General goods and services

The General goods and services (GGS) category includes general, tangible and consumable products (goods) and services. The group aims to deliver easy-to-use procurement arrangements that provides real value and tangible benefits for Queensland communities.

The GGS category includes sub-categories that cover:

• Furniture and fittings
• Office supplies
  • General office supplies, catering/kitchen and cleaning/janitorial consumables
• Employee services
  • Salary packaging administrative services
  • Novated leasing services
  • Workplace health services (employee assistance services, employee health services, workplace interventions, early intervention program services, vicarious trauma and related services)
• Logistics
  • Courier and freight services
  • Relocations
  • Records management
  • Language services
• Marketing services
  • Creative services
  • Media monitoring
  • Market and social research
  • Secure print
• Professional services
  • Finance, audit and economic consultancy services
  • Human resource consultancy services
  • Management and policy consultancy services
  • Probity and procurement consultancy services
  • Legal services
• Contingent workforce
  • Temporary and contracted workers (administration, community, information and communication technology, infrastructure, construction and maintenance, scientific and technical)
  • Resource manager service
  • Vendor management system
• Travel
  • Travel management company services
  • Online travel booking tool
  • Accommodation brokerage services
  • Airline arrangements (Qantas, Virgin, Cathay Pacific and Regional Express)
  • Air charter and aerial work services
  • Vehicle rental
  • International emergency assistance
  • International business travel insurance
• Utilities
  • Electricity (large and small sites)
  • Metering and data services
• Motor vehicle leasing and fleet management
  • Purchase of vehicles, vehicle maintenance, service and fuel needs
• Food and beverage
  • Groceries, dairy and beverage goods

• Personal protective equipment (PPE)
  • Non-clinical hand sanitisers and refills

Available whole-of-government arrangements

Review the Queensland Contracts Directory to find an existing arrangement:

• Queensland Government Arrangements Directory (Public)
• Queensland Government Arrangements Directory (Government staff)

If you can't find an arrangement for the product/service you need, you may need to go to market to find it. A range of tender and contract templates are available to help you navigate this process.