Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2021-07-02
Buyer: Iarnród Eireann-Irish Rail
Country: IE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 34943000 | 48100000 | 48140000 | 72212140
Submission deadline: 2021-07-28
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Due to the increase in commuter volumes, planned fleet expansions and technical enhancement requirements associated with the move to a traffic management system, Iarnród Éireann Irish Rail (IÉ), had identified the need to enhance its fleet management capability.
Rolling stock maintenance (locomotives, units, carriages, wagons, or other vehicles) is managed by SAP Plant Maintenance (SAP PM), this system monitors key activities that include inspection, notifications, corrective and preventive maintenance, repairs, and other measures to maintain an ideal technical system. Future stock availability is not known to the train planning system.
In addition, the traffic management system can use of real time rolling stock formation information to support route planning, conflict management and resolution, ensure fleet compliance with infrastructure and improve customer service functions, providing a better service to customers and staff.
Due to the increase in commuter volumes, planned fleet expansions and technical enhancement requirements associated with the move to a Traffic Management System, Iarnród Éireann Irish Rail (IÉ), had identified the need to enhance its fleet management capability.
Rolling stock maintenance (locomotives, units, carriages, wagons, or other vehicles) is managed by SAP Plant Maintenance (SAP PM), this system monitors key activities that include inspection, notifications, corrective and preventive maintenance, repairs, and other measures to maintain an ideal technical system. Future stock availability is not known to the train planning system.
In addition, the traffic management system can use of real time rolling stock formation information to support route planning, conflict management and resolution, ensure fleet compliance with infrastructure and improve customer service functions, providing a better service to customers and staff.
• should the timetable change, the updates should be incorporated into train consists planning with transparent changes that allows for optimisation;
• facilitate strategic decision-making by identifying potential efficiency improvements as well as potential cost reductions;
• integrate with our SAP PM (Plant Maintenance) system and detail conflicts on the maintenance system before committing the train on future timetables;
• integrate with TMS to provide information on real-time rolling stock formations, including changes to the rolling stock roster used as the basis of each train timetable;
• be able to determine (For long term plans) what rolling stock maintenance schedules there are, as-well-as know when in the future the rolling stock will be unavailable;
• integrate with the Train planning system to obtain current or planned timetables. It must confirm, according to availability, if the proposed timetable changes can be applied to the roster and highlight any roster conflicts;
• be able to integrate the timetables seamlessly from the TPS and must take any changes to the timetable into account by highlighting the resulting issues in the rolling stock rosters;
• configurable rules depending on the type of rolling stock, for other additional services and planned maintenance work;
• multiple user levels i.e. depot level, traffic control overall view, management level fleet analysis, reporting etc.

Eligibility requirements: For full details, please download a copy of the attached pre-qualification questionnaire.