Mobile bridges

Tender description

The Authority's Operational Infrastructure Programme (OIP) has identified a possible future requirement to sustain/enhance the capabilities currently provided by Medium Girder Bridge / Medium Girder Over Bridge / Air Portable Ferry Bridge to support UK forces out to 2037. Any interested party can provide an existing solution (COTS) to meet the capability or sustain/enhance the existing bridges. The 3 capabilities will share common components to allow maximum flexibility between the various bridge configurations as follows: 1. Dry/Wet Gap Crossing: A lightweight, rapidly deployable hand built dry support Bridge of modular construction to support simple and complex intervention environments for light and medium weight forces. A bridge capable of crossing a gap up to 29 metres in a single span. A single set of the equipment must meet the capability threshold for the load capacity of MLC 50(T)(W) and an capability objective for the load capacity of MLC 85(T)(W). 2. Over Bridge: Rapidly deployable hand built dry support Over Bridge of modular construction, capable of crossing a gap of up to 9 metres. It is designed to be placed over damaged bridges or culverts. A single set of the equipment must meet the capability threshold for the load capacity of MLC 50(T)(W) and an capability objective for the load capacity of MLC 85(T) 130(W). 3. Ferry Bridge: A deployable hand built, modular bridge to enable light forces to cross a variety of wet and dry obstacles. The Ferry Bridge system shall consist of all the equipment required to provide any 1 of the following capabilities: i. A single span bridge up to 14 metres in a span capable of being deployed and operated by both light and fly forward forces; ii. A single span over-bridge up to 14 metres in a span capable of being deployed and operated by both light and fly forward forces; iii. A reinforced single span bridge up to 14 and 28 metres in a span capable of being deployed and operated by both light and fly forward forces; iv. A self propelled roll-on, roll-off (RORO) ferry capable of being deployed and operated by both light and fly forward forces. A single set of the equipment must meet the capability threshold for the load capacity of MLC 50(T)(W) and an capability objective for the load capacity of MLC 85(T)(W). At this stage, the purpose of this notice is to contribute to ongoing market analysis in support of this proposed requirement. Any interested party wishing to register a proposed solution that meets the capability requirements listed above should provide their response to the contact details listed above by 30.9.2016. Any response to this notice is not a formal Expression of Interest (EOI) and the Authority shall notify the market formally at a later date when the requirement has been fully matured.