Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2021-03-24
Buyer: Transport for Greater Manchester
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 66171000 | 71000000 | 71200000 | 71300000 | 71310000
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Professional advice and services relating to transport systems (all modes) including but not limited to all areas covered by:
Professional advice and services related to railway and rapid transit systems including investigation, planning,design, operations, compliance, integration and maintenance activities.
Professional advice and services related to intelligent transport systems, integration of technology systems, design of single mode and multi-modal control centres, and emerging future mobility solutions.
Support of the existing and future programme of intelligent transport systems work, in line with the objectives of the Local Transport Plan and Greater Manchester Transport Strategy 2040, whilst taking into account the emerging TfGM future mobility strategy and the wider Greater Manchester Combined Authority’s digital strategy.
Professional advice and services related to all aspects of transport operations including but not limited to operational feasibility and performance, investigation, planning, outline and detailed design, operations and maintenance activities.
Professional advice and services relating to transport strategy including but not limited to all areas covered by:
Professional advice and services to develop transport policies, strategies and business cases, including high-level work in areas that would need to be carried out in more detail, including producing and coordinating business cases for those schemes when specific interventions are required for funding decisions.
Professional advice and services are required to undertake both strategic and tactical modelling, forecasting and economic appraisal tasks. These tasks will support evidence building for policies, strategies and projects, and must be completed in line with best practice and guidance from TfGM, DfT and elsewhere as appropriate. Appropriate skills across the range of Micro, Meso and Macro-simulation and transport modelling will be required.
Strategic consultancy services with capabilities in commercial and financial advisory services in relation to the transport sector.
This lot covers professional advice and services relating to research and consultation activity including, but not limited to all areas covered by mixed method research (as described below):
• Specialist Lot H (Consultation activity) across all aspects of travel experience and all modes of transport.
Professional advice, management and provision of quantitative research services. Quantitative research can be via any sampled method, including random probability sampling surveys or a product user census.
Professional advice, management and provision of consultation services to support both statutory and informal consultation.
Professional advice and services relating to transport surveys and data collection including but not limited to all areas covered by:
Consultancy services for manual transport surveys and data collection including but not limited to provision of staff to undertake transport surveys, collect, interpret and analyse data in relation to all transport modes. Though some surveys will be paper based, other surveys will require the provision of technology to assist in manual surveys through the use of electronic devices.


Winner: Amey OWR Ltd
Number of bids: 4