Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2024-03-22
Buyer: Sporveien AS
Country: NO
Region: NO081
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated without a prior call for competition
CPV classification: 48332000 | 72000000 | 72220000: Systems and technical consultancy services | 72230000: Custom software development services | 72262000: Software development services

Technical requirements: Sporveien intends to enter into a contract for analysis services within capacity and route planning with Trenolab S.r.l. The contract will be built on SSA-O with some adaptations. The total framework for the contract is NOK 4.4 million.

The contract shall cover Sporveien ́s need for constructing schedules for the migration phases in connection with the implementation of CBTC in the underground. CBTC will give new driving times, so that the current route schedule and driving times must be adjusted. In the first phases the migration route plans will consist of both the existing and new signal system. The route plans that are prepared must therefore function for both systems.

Sporveien would like to use the technical capacity of the subway system as optimally as possible in order to achieve as many train entrances as possible per hour. In order to design operational optimal route plans, the route planning tool is required to reproduce the total subway system as accurately as possible. To ensure sufficient precision, there is a need for expertise in analysing services within capacity and route planning, with access to a separate route planning tool.

According to Sporveien ́s knowledge, Trenolab is the only supplier who offers a fully integrated system with the necessary expertise in analysis services within capacity and route planning with a separate tool.

The Trenolab planning tool is the only tool in the market that has built-in analysis of well-tested real-time data, and the tool can perform timetable stochastic simulations at a very fast pace, compared to other tools. Other suppliers in the market who are owners of their own tool do not have an integrated cycle in their tool. An integrated system with an analysis function works faster because the module is adapted for processing railway specific data that is transferred to the next module.

Trenolab has development competence and can further develop and make changes directly in the source code to the tool for rendering the most accurate model. Other tenderers can only provide an analysis service. These suppliers do not own their own tool and cannot, thus, further develop the tool to cover Sporveien ́s needs. This is the background for Sporveien needing a fully integrated system where the tenderer can perform analysis services and at the same time own their own tool.

Based on this, Sporveien ́s assessment is that the conditions for the procurement without a competition are fulfilled in accordance with the utilities regulations § 9-3 letter b, no. 2.
There will occasionally be a need for work to be carried out from Sporveiens premises.
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Winner: Trenolab S.r.l