Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-07-28
Buyer: Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 18000000 | 22000000 | 24000000 | 30000000 | 31000000
Estimated value: 300000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2018-08-31
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Network Rail wishes to move away from having direct relationships with approximately 300 separate suppliers of indirect infrastructure materials and consumables items, to a supplier managed distribution model. Under this model only 1 or 2 suppliers will manage the procurement, supply, storage and distribution of these items on Network Rail's behalf.
Accordingly, under this procurement Network Rail requires the supply to it by 1 or 2 successful provider(s) of:
Network Rail may also require supplies and services in respect of the provision of an associated software solution.
The indirect infrastructure materials and consumable items include railway specific and generic items. Lot 1 will relate to the supply of railway specific items, and Lot 2 will relate to the supply of generic items.
Where the same supplier wins Lot 1 and Lot 2, Network Rail reserves the right to combine the award of those lots into a single contract.
Accordingly, the successful supplier for this Lot 1 may be a tenderer who has successfully submitted a Lot 1 Individual Tender, or a Combined Tender.
Further information in relation to the tenders to be submitted is set out in the Instructions to Participants.
(a) supply for purchase "railway specific" indirect infrastructure materials and consumables items, which will include (but not be limited to) track drainage items, telecoms spares, railway system original equipment spares, and overhead line equipment spares (a full list of current relevant railway specific product categories can be found at section V1.3 of this Notice); and
(iv) order management, including order processing, order expediting, order queries, pricing, order acknowledgment and supplier payment;
(vii) inventory management of product categories (with the supplier to own all inventory until issued to Network Rail);
(ix) the provision, maintenance and operation of physical and systemic logistic solutions (for example, barcoding and smart-lockers and other technologies as appropriate);
(x) management of Network Rail end-user queries, issues and customer account management; (xi) provision of technical product knowledge;
(xiii) management information reporting (including on KPI, product safety, customer satisfaction, stock availability, and whole life cost).
Under this Lot 1 Network Rail may also require the successful provider to provide supplies for purchase and services in respect of the design and integration of a software solution which will relate to both this Lot 1, and Lot 2 (Lot 1 Software Services). The Lot 1 Software Services will include necessary liaison and collaboration with the successful supplier of Lot 2 (if such supplier is different to the successful supplier of this Lot 1), and the maintenance and operation of ordering software/hardware solutions. It is anticipated that the provision of the Lot 1 Software Services will be introduced by way of a contract variation at the end of the Transition Period, as summarised at paragraph 2.1 of the Appendix to the Instructions to Participants.
It is anticipated that during the life of the contract to be awarded in respect of this Lot 1, the precise range of the railway specific indirect infrastructure materials and combined items which Network Rail requires the supply of may change (with some items no longer being required and some new items being required). All items that Network Rail requires the supply of will fall within the scope of this procurement (including as set out in the CPV Codes, and the procurement documents referred to at section I.3 of this Notice).


Award value: 300000000