Traffic control services

Tender description

Scottish Water requires traffic management services to support its capital investment/maintenance and operational programmes of work. The requirement is to provide a 24 hours per day 7 day per week service and the traffic management contractors must be able to fully support that requirement. Emergency response is requirement to be on site within 2 hours for make safe requests including those reported by roads authorities and Police. This service will include design and provision of signs, lighting, barriers, traffic lights, pedestrian lights, walkways, cones, etc. and installation, maintenance, adjustment and removal of equipment. The estimated total value range of the contract from 2021-2029 is GBP 67.42 m to GBP 118 m. This is split as an estimated annual value range of GBP 8 m to GBP 14 m for 2021 to 2027, increasing to an estimated annual value range of GBP 9.71 m to GBP 17 m for 2027 to 2029. Refer to document ‘SW19INF1214 – Procurement Scope & PQQ Weightings’ to read the full scope of the procurement. Scottish Water requires traffic management contractors to support its capital investment/maintenance and operational programmes of work. The requirement is to provide a 24 hours per day 7 day per week service and the traffic management contractors must be able to fully support that requirement. Emergency response is requirement to be on site within 2 hours for make safe requests including those reported by roads authorities and Police. This service will include design, liaison with local authorities/customers/other interested parties. Provision of signs, lighting, barriers, traffic lights, pedestrian lights, walkways, cones, etc. and installation, maintenance, adjustment and removal of traffic management. Contractors will be allocated regional areas dependent upon PQQ and ITN assessments. Allocation may also be related to contractors available resources and capabilities to support the planned (generally capital projects) and reactive (generally operational jobs).The requirement to meet operational response times is essential and will be included in PQQ and ITN assessments. This may have an impact upon framework awards where locally based contractors may be awarded reactive work in order to meet response times. The advert is for a ‘Pan Scotland’ requirement. However, subject to notes of interest received Scottish Water reserves the right to remove some locations from the scope of work and deliver via alternative means. For example, work in the islands may be delivered via local contractors engaged through the regional contractor services framework (replacement for the rural framework) or engaged via capital alliance/operational alliance contractors. The contractor will prepare designs including options for consideration in compliance with client’s timescales and shall consult with trunk road contractors or local authorities to ensure all relevant design issues are resolved. The contractor shall seek to achieve cost saving’s via design initiatives and innovations in collaboration with client. Compliance with planned start and completion dates will be subject to KPI & KPC monitoring/root cause analysis/improvement measures. Delays, amendments or any other changes shall be dealt with in accordance with early warning/compensation event (+/-) process and procedures. Impact of change shall be minimised or avoided wherever possible by traffic management contractor. Contractors will collaborate and integrate with Scottish Water, partners and contractors to ensure that work is being designed, planned and completed to the best possible effect. This may include measures such as key nominated persons from the traffic management contractor(s) working directly with the design and planning teams. This will include integration with Scottish Water and delivery partners IT systems as required. The estimated total value of the contract (including extensions) from 2021-2029 is GBP 67.42 m to GBP 118 m. This is split as an estimated annual value range of GBP 8 m to GBP 14 m for 2021 to 2027, increasing to an estimated annual value range of GBP 9.71 m to GBP 17 m for 2027 to 2029. Please refer to the document ‘SW19INF1214 – Procurement Scope & PQQ Weightings’ to read the full scope of the procurement.