Repair, maintenance and associated services related to railways and other equipment

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Iarnród Éireann requires a company to provide services in the following: 1) Welding of Rails in situ using the thermit welding process under SoW5 and SmW-F formats or approved equivalent; 2) Electric arc welding track repairs; for rail defects such as squats, wheel burns, gauge corner cracking – all personnel to be certified in both manual and automatic flux cored and stick welding for carbon, Manganese, and HP335 rail; 3) Grinding repair to plain rail, switches and crossings in carbon, tri-metal zone (TMZ) Manganese and HP335 steel; 4) Competent in use of abrasive wheels for profile grinding and cutting of plain line rail and in points and crossings; 5) Pre and post point care inspections, repairs and weld repairs; 6) Point care maintenance and renewals works. The work will take place at various locations throughout the Irish Rail Network on day and night shifts. Iarnród Éireann requires a company to provide services in the following: 1) Welding of rails in situ using the thermit welding process under SoW5 and SmW-F formats or approved equivalent; 2) Electric arc welding track repairs; for rail defects such as squats, wheel burns, gauge corner cracking – all personnel to be certified in both manual and automatic flux cored and stick welding for carbon, Manganese, and HP335 rail; 3) Grinding repair to plain rail, switches and crossings in carbon, tri-metal zone (TMZ) Manganese and HP335 steel; 4) Competent in use of abrasive wheels for profile grinding and cutting of plain line rail and in points and crossings; 5) Pre and post point care inspections, repairs and weld repairs; 6) Point care maintenance and renewals works. The work will take place at various locations throughout the Irish Rail Network on day and night shifts. Note; all personnel carrying out the above services must be certified and competent in accordance with BS EN ISO 15613:2004, I.S. EN 15594:2009, I.S. EN 16725:2016, BS EN 14730 Parts 1 and 2:2017 and IS EN 14730 Parts 1 and 2:2017.