Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-02-05
Buyer: Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment
Country: NL
Region: NEDERLAND
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 32400000 | 32500000 | 34920000 | 34923000 | 34924000
Estimated value: 1 EUR
Submission deadline: 2016-02-29
Award criteria: The most economic tender
EU fund: Horizon Europe

Technical requirements: Call for design and initial deployment proposals on innovative intelligent transport solutions in and between main urban-economic regions in the Netherlands.
The services procured during the first period are primarily so-called Research and Development services which will need to take place amongst the 14 (or so) to be selected partners within the Dutch eco-system of private entities involved in intelligent transport and traffic services. These services are exempt from the procurement Directive based on article 163 of the Treaty. After the initial development and testing thereof, procurement of the services will commence during the remainder of the 5-year period. This tender (including the way this negotiation procedure is structured) anticipates and embraces the Horizon 2020 approach allowing government entities to enter into innovation partnerships.
The Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment (hereinafter the Ministry) and its 12 regional public partners through its Beter Benutten program wishes to enhance accessibility of its prime urban-economical regions by assisting private enterprises in deploying innovations that will positively affect travellers choices (departure time, mode of transport, routes, destination parking and so forth), drivers choices and drivers behaviour (speed, breaking, lane choice, merging and so forth). These innovative services need to facilitate measurable effects in the near future (1-4 years) on travel times, reduction of road incidents, fuel consumption, emissions and have a sustainable business case after government financial support has expired. The Ministry on behalf of its partners therefore wishes to support private development, implementation and early stage deployment of various C-ITS use cases, utilizing cellular based low latency data transfer and handling. The Ministry and its partners believe it is imperative that new urban C-ITS solutions will be developed and implemented in close cooperation between public and private parties throughout the value chain.
Suppliers of intelligent traffic management installations and systems, (specifically Traffic Light systems) and their priority and regulatory systems.
Scope of the services: modifying a maximum number of 1.268 existing traffic light installations based on an open architecture developed for and commissioned by our Ministry as well as international standards. Please note that the complete renewal of existing traffic light installations is not included in the scope of this call.
Suppliers of cloud services, data enhancement, geo-messaging/coding services and distribution of the enriched data and advanced traffic information.
Scope of the services: cloud and data services (based on 4G/LTE data transmission as a requisite) are needed to aggregate, enhance (geo-classification), integrate and distribute the traffic information from the modems and software of the traffic light installations (or an equivalent hand-over facility) and conceivably enhanced by other public and private traffic data sources to the end-user (the driver's choice of transport like a car, a bus, a truck, a bike and so forth).
Scope of the services: based on the available traffic data (clusters 1 and 2 above) it is envisioned that private entities will be developing and marketing added value services to their (public and private) customers. Given the need for a speedy and wide spread deployment and use of new services by end users (B2B and B2C), our Ministry has decided to (initially) support private entities that are willing and able to include the new enhanced data in their existing traffic services (in car or equivalent).
Cluster 1: Suppliers of intelligent traffic light installations and software and their priority and regulatory systems. Tenderer needs to demonstrate its experience and technical capabilities and technical capacity in: traffic light controllers related traffic management systems or traffic management solutions in urban, sub-urban and on highways for the past 3 years.
Cluster 2: Suppliers of cloud services, data enhancement, geo-messaging/coding services and distribution of the advanced traffic information. Tenderer need to demonstrate its experience and technical capabilities and technical capacity in:
1) receiving, storing, handling, verifying, merging, converting, integrating, forwarding and distributing large volumes of data with sub-second latency, serving mobile and/or in-car devices of over 900 000 end-users, directly or for its existing customers/partners;
2) ability to create, maintain and/or share (directly or through its partners) service for the (near) real- time geo-coding of said large volumes of data for said amount of end-users.
Cluster 3: Service providers that already have an end user client base. Tenderer need to demonstrate its experience and technical capabilities and technical capacity in:
1) delivering (direct or through its partners) (near) real- time on-trip traffic and driver assistance services on mobile devices or in-car systems based on current location of the device, to an existing user base of at least 25 000, with sufficient capacity to serve at least 20 % of their active users simultaneously;
2) ability to process (directly or through its partners) (near) real-time geo-coding data for these users.

Eligibility requirements: Please consult the tender documentation for the precise criteria. Please consult the tender documentation for the precise criteria. Cluster 1: Suppliers of intelligent traffic light installations and software and their priority and regulatory systems. Tenderer needs to demonstrate its experience and technical capabilities and technical capacity in: traffic light controllers related traffic management systems or traffic management solutions in urban, sub-urban and on highways for the past 3 years. Cluster 2: Suppliers of cloud services, data enhancement, geo-messaging/coding services and distribution of the advanced traffic information. Tenderer need to demonstrate its experience and technical capabilities and technical capacity in: 1) receiving, storing, handling, verifying, merging, converting, integrating, forwarding and distributing large volumes of data with sub-second latency, serving mobile and/or in-car devices of over 900 000 end-users, directly or for its existing customers/partners; and (= cumulative) 2) ability to create, maintain and/or share (directly or through its partners) service for the (near) real- time geo-coding of said large volumes of data for said amount of end-users. Cluster 3: Service providers that already have an end user client base. Tenderer need to demonstrate its experience and technical capabilities and technical capacity in: 1) delivering (direct or through its partners) (near) real- time on-trip traffic and driver assistance services on mobile devices or in-car systems based on current location of the device, to an existing user base of at least 25 000, with sufficient capacity to serve at least 20 % of their active users simultaneously; and (= cumulative) 2) ability to process (directly or through its partners) (near) real-time geo-coding data for these users.
Please consult the tender documentation for the precise criteria.
Cluster 1: Suppliers of intelligent traffic light installations and software and their priority and regulatory systems. Tenderer needs to demonstrate its experience and technical capabilities and technical capacity in: traffic light controllers related traffic management systems or traffic management solutions in urban, sub-urban and on highways for the past 3 years. Cluster 2: Suppliers of cloud services, data enhancement, geo-messaging/coding services and distribution of the advanced traffic information. Tenderer need to demonstrate its experience and technical capabilities and technical capacity in: 1) receiving, storing, handling, verifying, merging, converting, integrating, forwarding and distributing large volumes of data with sub-second latency, serving mobile and/or in-car devices of over 900 000 end-users, directly or for its existing customers/partners; and (= cumulative) 2) ability to create, maintain and/or share (directly or through its partners) service for the (near) real- time geo-coding of said large volumes of data for said amount of end-users. Cluster 3: Service providers that already have an end user client base. Tenderer need to demonstrate its experience and technical capabilities and technical capacity in: 1) delivering (direct or through its partners) (near) real- time on-trip traffic and driver assistance services on mobile devices or in-car systems based on current location of the device, to an existing user base of at least 25 000, with sufficient capacity to serve at least 20 % of their active users simultaneously; and (= cumulative) 2) ability to process (directly or through its partners) (near) real-time geo-coding data for these users.

Award value: 1