Regional Strategic Model

Tender description

The aim of this project is to provide a step-change improvement in transport planning across the West Midlands, allowing Transport for West Midlands (TfWM) and its partner Local Highway and Transport Authorities to accurately consider comprehensive information and insights about the likely impacts of schemes and policies in the region. It should also provide valuable insight into existing travel behaviours and patterns which are drawn from different sources of basic observations of the transport system and homogenised through the RSM model environment into a single view of movements and demand. Such insights should be structured to provide intelligence which is relevant to a broad cohort of transport planners and that can be used to support the targeted promotion of new mobility services to end users (or modifications to existing services). The expectation is that the RSM will utilise a mixture of existing platforms and/or software products (which may be licensed from the RSM supplier or third parties), and bespoke software/services, or tooling, or processes and protocols. Lot 1: The aim of this project is to provide a step-change improvement in transport planning across the West Midlands, allowing Transport for West Midlands (TfWM) and its partner Local Highway and Transport Authorities to accurately consider comprehensive information and insights about the likely impacts of schemes and policies in the region. It should also provide valuable insight into existing travel behaviours and patterns which are drawn from different sources of basic observations of the transport system and homogenised through the RSM model environment into a single view of movements and demand. Such insights should be structured to provide intelligence which is relevant to a broad cohort of transport planners and that can be used to support the targeted promotion of new mobility services to end users (or modifications to existing services). The commission will involve: • the initial build and testing of the RSM model; • the provision of full suite of detailed protocols, tools and manuals that will allow every aspect of the re-basing, use for testing, operation and maintenance of the model to be undertaken by any competent professional not involved in the initial build; • the upskilling and training of local authority staff such that they can undertake key tasks and activities and appropriately specify subsequent commissions for work either using the RSM for transport planning studies, or to further develop the RSM capabilities; and • Technical support on modelling and data relevant to the RSM to the client team for a period of time as the RSM is adopted into Business as Usual operations and following the initial handover for a further period of up to four years. The expectation is that the RSM will utilise a mixture of existing platforms and/or software products (which may be licensed from the RSM supplier or third parties), and bespoke software/services, or tooling, or processes and protocols. WMCA reserves the right to award the Contract based solely on the Detailed Tender responses if it decides that it has a Detailed Tender response which scores highest and requires no Negotiation. If there are less than three Candidates following submission of the Detailed Tenders, WMCA reserves the right to move straight to the Negotiation (as defined below) phase. The second stage bidders will be invited to submit a detailed tender. The valuation of this procurement has been determined by reference to an anticipated budget for the delivery of the initial deliverable (items 1 to 4 above) of £1million with the remaining financial scope being available should the ad hoc services referred to in the final 4 years be required. The scope of the commission is further detailed in the procurement documents. WMCA is seeking a suitable and properly qualified service provider experienced in providing services similar to the services being let under this contract Additional information: WMCA reserves the right not to award any contract pursuant to this procurement exercise and/or to abandon this procurement exercise at any time and/or to award a contract for part of the services at its sole discretion. WMCA shall have no liability whatsoever to any applicant or tenderer as a result of its exercise of that discretion. For the avoidance of doubt, all costs incurred by any applican