Construction work

Tender description

The contract is for the supply, installation and maintenance of electronic bus stop display infrastructure within the County of Nottinghamshire. The Council’s detailed requirements were defined in the specification. Supply, installation and maintenance of electronic bus stop display infrastructure within the County of Nottinghamshire. The Council’s detailed requirements were defined in the specification. Nottinghamshire County Council (the ‘Authority’ also referred to as the ‘Council’) provides a range of transport services across the County, which are coordinated by Nottinghamshire Transport and Travel Services (‘NTS’) based at Trent Bridge House, Fox Road, West Bridgford, Nottingham, NG2 6BJ. Nottinghamshire County Council has 5000 bus stops and around 5 % of these currently have electronic displays installed. Nottinghamshire has a long-term project plan to fit LED and TFT signs displaying bus real time and scheduled information to a significant number of these bus stops through a rolling installation programme. Over the next 2 years, as part of the Local Transport Plan, NTS will continue to install bus stop poles for electronic displays at new and existing locations to raise the profile of bus infrastructure to a consistent standard countywide. The contract will be open to be utilised by the other authorities in the East Midlands region. These councils are Nottingham City, Leicester City, Leicestershire County, Derby City, Derbyshire County, Rutland County, Lincolnshire County and Northamptonshire County Councils. The contract is for a period of 2 years, commencing on 1.6.2019 and terminating on 31.5.2021 (with option to extend at annual intervals for a period of up to 2 years).