Official UK procurement notice
Supply of Clamplocks and Associated Items
Authority: NETWORK RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis is a voluntary ex ante transparency (VEAT) notice. This notice is to indicate that Network Rail intends to contract with SPX Flow Technology Limited for the purchase of Clamplocks/ Inbearer Clamplocks and associated items which form part of point operating systems.
CPV: Electrical signalling equipment for railways · Railway equipment · Railway points
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1It is a requirement that the Clamplock equipment is PA approved on the Network to…
It is a requirement that the Clamplock equipment is PA approved on the Network to ensure safe operation of the railway. The scope of works are purely limited to supply of components. Clamplocks are safety critical components for point operating mechanisms. Any failure of points operating equipment within the signalling/infrastructure introduces multiple risks to the network which could potentially result in line closure and delays with the possibility of injury arising from failure of points operating correctly. The requirement is national, with Clamplocks being used across the whole network. The supplier for this requirement is SPX Flow technology Limited, they have been supplying Clamplocks for the last 30 years to Network Rail and own all associated IPR relative to the assemblies and components for this requirement.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0025 Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016 (Directive 2014/25/EU)
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Awarded without competition
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Direct award (no call for competition)
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 12 Jul 2022, 13:59 BST
- Last source update
- 12 Jul 2022, 13:59 BST
- FTS notice number
2022/S 000-019051- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-035114Find a Tender
- Why no open competition
- The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
- Published justification
This requirement falls under provision 50-1-C-iii of the Utilities Contract Regulations 2016, which stipulates that a procurement activity without call to competition may be implemented if exclusive rights such as intellectual property will be breached as a result. This is relevant to the designs of SPX as they currently hold IPR rights for all components constituting Clamplock assemblies. Given the above considerations,there are no other reasonable alternatives at this time that would satisfy Network Rails requirements. Justification for this STA can also be seen in 50-1-E of the Utilities Contract Regulations 2016, detailing the technical difficulty of adoption of new technology It has been confirmed by Network Rail Technical Authority, that by changing the design from that other than that of SPX’s, it would result in either incompatibility and or disproportionate technical difficulties, in approving/ commissioning new Clamplock systems.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast1 suppliers are admitted to this framework without individual award values or dates; the JSON mirror lists them.
Contracts
Contract 019051-2022-1
- Signed
- 5 Jan 2022
- Value
- —
- Status
- active
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- High CourtReview body
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.