Highways consultancy services

Tender description

This is a contract award notice. Framework agreement for road safety technical services with local authorities and with Transport Infrastructure Ireland acting as Client Lot 1 to 3: • Lot 1 – Road Safety Technical Services for the Design of Road Safety Schemes; • Lot 2a,b,c,d – Road Safety Technical Services for the Delivery of Road Safety Inspections; • Lot 3 – Technical Services in relation to the delivery of health and safety and traffic management site inspections. All lots will be for an initial period of 24 months with an option to extend for an additional 24 months. TII will act as a central purchasing body in respect of a multi party framework agreement (6 Technical Advisors) for the provision of technical services for delivery of safety specific works which are funded by TII, together with any ancillary services which may be inferred there from or be necessary to carry out the service. Provision of technical services for delivery of road safety inspections for the Western Region together with any ancillary services which may be inferred there from or be necessary to carry out the service. Provision of technical services for delivery of road safety inspections for the Northern Region together with any ancillary services which may be inferred there from or be necessary to carry out the service. Provision of technical services for delivery of road safety inspections for the South East and Dublin Region together with any ancillary services which may be inferred there from or be necessary to carry out the service. Provision of technical services for delivery of road safety inspections for the South West Region together with any ancillary services which may be inferred there from or be necessary to carry out the service. The Contracting Authority (TII) requires the services of consultants to carry out health and safety site inspections on major TII sites and on traffic management sites on TII roads. The authority has a need for the services of consulting engineers in connection with: • carrying out construction site visits on TII funded projects to monitor compliance with health and safety legislation; • carrying out site visits on TII procured projects to ensure that the guidelines applying to temporary safety measures at road works are properly applied, and to record possible impacts on the safety of traffic flow; • carrying out inspections on the paperwork of local authorities, road operators and statuary undertakers to ensure that the requirement to inspect temporary safety measures at road works are applied in a consistent manner; • carrying out random site visits of temporary safety measures on projects sanctioned and/or procured by the local authority; • carrying out random site visits of statutory undertaker/road operator on temporary safety measures on projects under their management; • reporting on recurring issues on site and developing advice notes to advise on such; • corporate support with regards to occupational health and safety related issues within the TII.