South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority - Mass Transit Track Work Contracts

The following activities are the anticipated core tasks within the contract required to be

undertaken by the Supplier(s), and are likely to form the bulk of the suppliers' activities:

• Embedded rail replacement
• Embedded special track replacement (Switches, crossings, diamonds etc.)
• Ballasted track replacement
• Ballasted special track replacement

Rail replacement shall include, but not limited to, the following activities:

• Method statements, pre-installation surveys, rail and special trackwork preparatory and pre-coating works, procurement, and storage of materials, transport and storage of rails, pre-curving

of rails, installation, testing and post installation commissioning.

• Programme management, stakeholder engagement and constraints management.
• Local authority licencing and access permits,
• Traffic, environmental and waste management.

Ad-hoc and supporting tasks

The following activities are additional activities that may be procured from the supplier(s) under the contract. Such tasks will be relatively small in nature but would be within the capabilities of a competent track contractor:

• Polymer works: patch repairs and sealing of polymer in areas of the network not associated with the supplier's core works.
• Drainage works: specifically related to issues associated with track and track related drainage.
• Track & infrastructure inspections: including the procurement of external parties to provide specialist survey and investigative services.
• Localised track slab repairs
• Minor civil works: including track bed, infrastructure and highway repairs and enhancements associated with the track and route corridor.
• Ballast cleaning & replacement, sleeper replacement, tamping, lining and rail grinding
• Vegetation management

Emergency Works

The Client envisages situations where the supplier will need to be called upon to provide undefined emergency or support works to the track and lineside assets as and when required, including but not limited to:

• Safety critical works to the track and associated lineside infrastructure
• Operationally critical works to the track and associated lineside infrastructure
• Rail breaks
• Special trackwork failures
• Derailment support

It is anticipated that an open competition tender opportunity for the framework will be advertised within Q3 of 2023 with a planned award date by Q2 of 2024.