HCC 03/22 - Provision of Conceptual Design Services for the Watford to Croxley Link (W2CL)

Tender description

Hertfordshire County Council (the ‘Council’) is currently out to procurement for the provision of Conceptual Design Services for the Watford To Croxley Link (W2CL)Through this tender process, the Council is seeking to engage multiple suppliers to concurrently and independently develop creative and feasible conceptual designs for potential mobility solutions for the W2CL. The Council is seeking to select suppliers based on their potential to generate a creative, but deliverable, viable and feasible conceptual design for the W2CL. The Council want to encourage suppliers that can develop a range of mobility solutions. Conceptual designs will need to propose solutions for each aspect of the W2CL, from the type of mobility solution to the way in which the network / route will be operatedIt is the Council’s intention to award the Contract to up to 3 Tenderers who achieve the highest score following evaluation. The deadline for submission of completed Selection Questionnaire (SQ) is 1 Lot 1: BackgroundFollowing the cancellation of the Metropolitan Line Extension (MLX) project, and recent work considering alternatives to the MLX, there is a need to now develop a new project for the Watford to Croxley Link (W2CL) between Watford Junction and Croxley because the challenges that the MLX was intended to address remain. The Council are also developing options for a Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) project, called the HERT, and exploring potential for the Abbey Line through the Restoring Your Railway (RYR) fund. These together with new forms of mobility coming forward means that there is a need to develop potential concept designs and mobility solutions.Tender for Concept Design ServicesThrough this tender process, the Council is seeking to engage multiple suppliers to concurrently and independently develop creative and feasible conceptual designs for potential mobility solutions for the W2CL. The Council is seeking to select suppliers based on their potential to generate a creative, but deliverable, viable and feasible conceptual design for the W2CL. The Council want to encourage suppliers that can develop a range of mobility solutions. Conceptual designs will need to propose solutions for each aspect of the W2CL, from the type of mobility solution to the way in which the network / route will be operated. These solutions must achieve the objectives of the W2CL and comply with the W2CL Council Requirements. Suppliers will need to evidence how and why their proposed solutions achieve the W2CL Council Requirements, and demonstrate that collectively the solutions provide a complete, coherent and feasible concept which illustrates to the Council what a range of potential mobility solutions could be, how they can be delivered and how they could be operated.It is the Council’s intention to award the Contract to up to 3 Tenderers who achieve the highest score following evaluation. Full details of this process are described in the Council Requirements Organisations wishing to take part in this project are invited to 'express interest' which will give access to the full procurement documents in the e-tendering system. Please see VI.3) Additional information for further information. Any questions relating to this procurement must be made via the correspondence area in the e-Tendering system, in accordance with the procurement documents and can be addressed to the main contact as shown in the details above.The estimated total value of the Contract is stated in II.1.5 of this notice Up to 3 tenderers will be awarded a Contract for Stage 1 at a value up to £25,000.00 each. Up to 2 tenderers will then be taken forward to Stage 2 with the potential additional value of up to £100,000.00 each.