Underground passenger railway transport

Tender description

Metrolink will provide a high speed, high capacity, high frequency, modern and efficient public transport service for people travelling along the swords/airport to city centre corridor in Dublin and will include the following design services and delivery works: — underground tunnelling, stations, portals, ventilation/intervention shafts and associated works, — at-grade, retained-cut, cut and cover and elevated track, stations and associated works, — depot, stabling, operations control centre and park and ride facilities, — rolling stock, platform screen doors, signalling and associated works including a public private partnership with operations below, and — delivery, operations and maintenance management of all of the above for a period in the range, approximately, of 15 to 25 years from the operations commencement date. This PIN relates to a ‘preliminary market consultation’ within the meaning given in the Regulation 65 of the European Union (Award of Contracts by Utility Undertakings) Regulations 2016. The purpose of this market consultation is to: 1) Share with the market TII/NTA’s maturing approach to the procurement strategy for MetroLink; and 2) Provide market participants and other interested parties with an opportunity to inform the finalisation of the MetroLink procurement strategy. Any interested parties (those parties capable of providing relevant design, construction, delivery, maintenance and operations) wishing to respond to this market consultation, whether or not they responded to any earlier consultations, are required to send a request to the contact person (named in Section 1.1) by 13.11.2019 seeking to be issued with a copy of the briefing pack for review and completion of the questionnaire contained within the pack by the PIN closing date. In relation to the estimated total value of the scope covered under this PIN Notice, please note that the design and cost forecast are currently under development.