Official UK procurement notice
IM Core Fleet Turnkey Solutions
Authority: NETWORK RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNetwork Rail collects infrastructure monitoring data primarily from a fleet of dedicated infrastructure monitoring trains (aka ‘the yellow fleet’). It’s well recognised that the existing monitoring fleet is life expired, unpredictable and ripe for retirement.
The Infrastructure Monitoring fleet is timetabled to measure a total of 217,344 miles per year across the majority of Network Rail infrastructure (including HS1). There are also 145,631 miles of planned ‘transit’ where trains are not recording infrastructure measurements.
At a time when reliance on IM is increasing, meeting customer requirements with the current service is challenging. There is a huge pull from regions for increased, more reliable and predictable infrastructure monitoring as a minimum - so they can avoid putting additional boots on the ballast and have the capacity to deliver their CP7 commitments. The IM Programme has worked with customers to turn discussions into a set of requirements that meets devolution and regional strategic priorities.
In 2022 and 2023, Network Rail’s Infrastructure Monitoring Programme undertook significant market engagement with the supply chain culminating in supply chain sessions being held in the first half of 2023.
These sessions highlighted to Network Rail that ‘turnkey solutions’ for train-borne infrastructure monitoring that are interoperable with the British railway network, are already available from the market.
CPV: Locomotives · Railway maintenance or service vehicles, and railway freight wagons · Railway-track inspection services · Railway-track maintenance services · Repair, maintenance and associated services related to railways and other equipment · Rolling stock
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Network Rail would like to engage with providers of ‘turnkey solutions’ for…Planned
Network Rail would like to engage with providers of ‘turnkey solutions’ for train-borne infrastructure monitoring that are interoperable with the British railway network, are already available from the market.
The purpose of this PIN is to:
a) Engage with suppliers to generate and register interest.
b) To understand in more detail the extent of turnkey solutions which are available currently in the market.
Responding to this PIN is an excellent opportunity to engage, share relevant information and provide each other with feedback. Should you wish to respond to this PIN please follow the instructions below:
- Follow the link: networkrail.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.html ↗
- From the welcome screen, access the “View Current Opportunities” link and select “IM Core Fleet Turnkey Solutions”.
- Click on the attachment “IM Core Fleet - RFI Submission Template”. Suppliers should be responding to questions in the excel document.
- Identify all the IM data streams that your turnkey solution supports.
- Where you offer different turnkey solutions for different data streams (i.e. different platforms) please complete a column for each in the tab ‘Technical information (Part 2)’.
- Once completed please send your RFI Submission Template via email to: mark.adams3@networkrail.co.uk with the email subject " IM Core Fleet Turnkey Solutions RFI".
The response deadline for this RFI is the 31st March 2024.
Any questions or clarifications in respect of this RFI should be addressed to mark.adams3@networkrail.co.uk Additional information: A direct link to this opportunity can be found below.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0025 Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016 (Directive 2014/25/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 28 Feb 2024, 12:48 GMT
- Last source update
- 29 Feb 2024, 17:11 GMT
- FTS notice number
2024/S 000-006591- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-043d72Find a Tender
How it was run
Official noticeTender documents are also served through a separate tool: https://networkrail.bravosolution.co.uk/esop/guest/go/opportunity/detail?opportunityId=57828 ↗
- Submission deadline
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Timeline
29 Feb 2024 → 1 Oct 2024 · 2 dates- Notice published29 Feb 2024, 17:11 GMT
- Tender notice expected1 Oct 2024, 00:00 BST
Notice history
2 releases on Find a TenderPublished amendments (1 · 0 deadline changes)
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A direct link to this opportunity can be found below. https://networkrail.bravosolution.co.uk/esop/guest/go/opportunity/detail?opportunityId=57828
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