Railway equipment

Tender description

Network Rail intends to deliver, via an early design and build deployment site at NYL, a Digital Railway ‘Toolkit’ as the standard building blocks for future national roll-out. 2 of the principal components being a European Train Control System (ETCS) Level 2 — Signals away solution (with training via a simulator for NYL) and a Traffic Management System (TMS) incorporating interface provision to Connected Driver Advisory System (C-DAS). Solutions required will be inclusive of open protocol development to communicate with associated systems culminating in an integrated DR ‘Toolkit’. Commissioning of the system for the NYL project is envisaged to be by the end of December 2018 (approximately). Maintenance and Support (M&S) will be required for both ETCS and TMS for an indicative period of 10 years. NR may wish to exercise an option to extend said M&S by up to a further 5 years by instructing an Employer's option to do so. High level indicative Programme Milestones: (All dates are indicative). 1. Contract start — Jan 2017; 2. ETCS — Development of level 3.5.0 complete and available for deployment — Dec 2017; 3. TMS — Training System ready — June 2018; 4. Commissioning of ETCS and TMS — Dec 2018. Network Rail Infrastructure Projects (NRIP) is inviting requests to participate in the tender process for design, supply, delivery, commissioning and support and maintenance of an integrated ETCS Level 2 — Signals away and TMS system. The tender will be divided into 3 Lots: Lot 1 — ETCS; Lot 2 — TMS; Lot 3 — ETCS and TMS combined. Participants in the tender process may either tender for Lot 1 only, Lot 2 only or a combined Lot 1 and 2 offer (Lot 3). NRIP will issue a PQQ to respondents to this Contract Notice post receipt of requests to participate. Respondents will be invited to a Tender event (format, venue and date to be confirmed, but currently envisaged to be circa w/c 28.3.2016) where suppliers will be briefed on the PQQ process, the scope of work and the procedure for this tender. The approximate footprint of the Early Deployment project at NYL is as follows (for indicative purposes only): 99km of track — includes double and single track plus terminal stations 5 class 153, 9 class 156, 12 lass 170 DMUs (Diesel Multiple Units); Hauled set of class 37 and 47 locos; Ballast train working class 66; 8 signal boxes closures, 8 Level Crossings (LX) closures and 2 LXs; Combining signalling and Control Box will be reduced to Control Box only.