NAVIQ Pty Ltd "was not able to honour" a Queensland road contract, the transport department recorded. Five months later, it was in liquidation.

Queensland's Department of Transport and Main Roads records a change of contractor for rope-access descaling work on Gatton Clifton Road in October 2025.

Its published contract disclosure gives the reason in one line:

NAVIQ Pty Ltd was an established slope-stabilisation contractor on Queensland public work. Transport and Main Roads had awarded it a $1,837,905 slope remediation contract in April 2024, and two months after the replacement it priced a cyclone landslip repair for Mareeba Shire Council at $4,757,062.74.

Five months after the replacement, on 3 March 2026, NAVIQ Pty Ltd, ACN 646 685 609, and NAVIQ Equipment Pty Ltd, ACN 655 921 618, entered creditors' voluntary liquidation. On 14 October, a third company, NAVIQ Group Pty Ltd, ACN 655 782 906, followed.

The disclosure is the department's account of a replacement. It does not say why NAVIQ could not perform the work, and it is not a finding about the company's solvency or conduct in October 2025.

For anyone who supplied, subcontracted to or contracted with a NAVIQ company, the practical question is which one. Seven companies are now in an insolvency process under three practitioner firms, and a claim lies against the company named on the invoice or contract.

Is NAVIQ in liquidation? Three NAVIQ companies are, and a fourth is in administration. Other NAVIQ-named companies on the register have no insolvency notice.

NAVIQ worked where ordinary earthmoving stops: slopes, batters and landslips.

The Gladstone Area Water Board's contract disclosure records a "Left Abutment Batter Stabilisation" job awarded to NAVIQ Pty Ltd in April 2024 for $268,940.

Transport and Main Roads' disclosures list NAVIQ Pty Ltd on slope-remediation and shotcrete work from 2023, including the April 2024 contract, and the same company under its former name, Uplift Safety Pty Ltd, on slope work from 2021.

The rope-access job on which the department recorded a replacement was in that same line of work. The disclosure dates the contract award at 27 August 2025, six weeks before the replacement.

Two months after the replacement, NAVIQ Pty Ltd was bidding for more.

Mareeba Shire Council's tender for landslip remediation at Mount Haren Road and Warril Drive, roads damaged by Tropical Cyclone Jasper, closed on 9 December 2025. Eight tenderers responded, and NAVIQ's price was $4,757,062.74, excluding GST.

The council's February 2026 report records that "Durack Civil, Ground Stabilisation Systems, Naviq and Pan Civil were not shortlisted based on price". It recommended Australian Ground Engineering at $2,999,139.13, subject to state funding approval.

That was an unsuccessful bid, not a lost contract. It shows NAVIQ still competing for multimillion-dollar public work three months before liquidation.

On 3 March 2026, the members of NAVIQ Pty Ltd and NAVIQ Equipment Pty Ltd, formerly Uplift Equipment Pty Ltd, resolved to wind both companies up.

Christopher John Baskerville of Jirsch Sutherland was appointed liquidator of both. He called a creditors' meeting for 25 June to present his report.

On 7 July, an administrator was appointed to NAVIQ Group Pty Ltd, formerly Uplift Innovations Pty Ltd.

The company did not appoint him. ASIC's notice records the appointment as made "under section 436C, a person entitled to enforce a security interest in the whole, or substantially the whole of the property of the company".

That is an appointment by a party claiming the statutory power associated with security over all or substantially all of the company's property, rather than an appointment by the directors. The notice does not name the secured party or the amount it was owed.

The administrator, Paul Eric Nogueira of Worrells, held meetings in July and August, and a resumed meeting on 14 October.

That day the company passed into creditors' voluntary liquidation under section 446A of the Corporations Act, which applies when creditors resolve that a company in administration be wound up. Mr Nogueira is its liquidator.

On the same day, 7 July, a single ASIC notice recorded administrators appointed to four more companies, each by its own resolution:

Nicholas David Lancaster and Kaily Lyn Chua of Rodgers Reidy were appointed to all four.

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All seven companies in this article carry postcode 4556 on the public record. Two of the four on the Rodgers Reidy notice carry or once carried NAVIQ names, and five of the seven once carried Uplift names.

The register does not record an ownership relationship between them, and a shared notice does not establish shared debts.

A resumed meeting for the four companies was also listed for 14 October. Its outcome has not yet been published.

The October 2025 disclosure is the earliest public entry in this sequence, five months before the first liquidation. For anyone owed money now, the question is which of the seven companies they dealt with.

If you are owed money by a company in an insolvency process and are unsure which entity you dealt with: They owe me money

We publish public-record information, not advice. The liquidators and administrators are the authoritative sources on each process, and nothing here is a statement about any party's claim or conduct.