Bus Infrastructure (Provision, Maintenance and Advertising)

Tender description

This tender is for the manufacture and installation, or manufacture only, of bus passenger shelters and bus stop poles in the West Midlands. Bus passenger shelters form part of the accessible public transport system and user needs must be at the forefront of the design and installation processes. The funding for this infrastructure may be sourced from ERDF or other similar EU funding opportunities. The Contractor is reminded that the infrastructure is intended for intensive public use and will be subject to the trials of such an environment, thus any design must take into consideration factors such as; vandalism, climatic degradation, collision damage and subsequent ease of cleaning and repair. Also any design will need to accommodate additional add on features such as advertising panels and Real Time Information (RTI) units. Centro wishes to procure shelters for use on the highway which can be used for the replacement of existing life expired infrastructure or to provide a higher standard of waiting environment than that currently existing. The new shelters will match as far as practicable the current shelter designs. Centro currently own the rights to this design type within the West Midlands. This contract is for an initial period of 27 months from 1st April 2014 until 30th June 2016 with options to extend to a full 48 months.