Washing installation

Tender description

The scope of this procurement shall include design, supply, installation and a minimum of 12 months support. IE has a total of seven (7) train wash facilities at locations throughout the Republic of Ireland and this automatic tagging system is required to be installed at each location. The objective of the system is to identify when trains in the IE fleet have been washed, when they are due their next wash and if they are overdue a wash. The system should also be capable of producing reports on the number of washes per plant in a user configurable time period, e.g. daily, weekly, per period, per month, per quarter etc. IE operate trains in multiple unit configurations which change on a daily basis and the proposed system must be able to handle this when generating said reports. This is a call to competition by IE for the procurement of a train wash tagging system. The scope of this procurement shall include design, supply, installation and a minimum of 12 months support. IE has a total of seven (7) train wash facilities at locations throughout the Republic of Ireland and this automatic tagging system is required to be installed at each location. The objective of the system is to identify when trains in the IE fleet have been washed, when they are due their next wash and if they are overdue a wash. The system should also be capable of producing reports on the number of washes per plant in a user configurable time period, e.g. daily, weekly, per period, per month, per quarter etc. IE operate trains in multiple unit configurations which change on a daily basis and the proposed system must be able to handle this when generating said reports. Wash facilities will not change as part of this project hence the train wash tagging system will be required to interface with IE's existing systems to identify when a train is on the wash road, when the wash facilities are operational, the type of train, its unique fleet number and its length. IE would also like to monitor the train speed as it passes through the wash facilities as there is evidence that faster speeds through the wash facilities result in poorer wash results. For means of train identification IE have fitted Siemens RFID tags to all rolling stock. Should Applicants wish to propose another means of train identification they will need to demonstrate the successful use of that proposed technology in a similar application.