The Burdekin Water Quality tender workshops were divided into three parts. The first part involved participants engaging in an experimental tender. The aim of the exercise was to create a pool of additional bids which could then be assessed against the bids in the trial tender. This would provide information about the relative impact of increasing the scale of the tender by introducing more competition into the bidding process. The second part of the workshop focused on the impacts that scope and scale changes may have on participation and bid competitiveness. The last part of the workshop required participants to complete a questionnaire survey which provided information on participants’ attitudes and opinions about conservation tenders.