Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-04-08
Buyer: Network Rail Infrastructure Limited
Country: UK
Region: UNITED KINGDOM
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 48000000 | 72200000
Estimated value:  GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-04-20
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The Intelligent Infrastructure programme is Network Rail's strategic solution for remote condition monitoring of fixed assets. Based on the Schneider Electric Wonderware suite of products, the system started as a pilot project in Scotland. It has since grown rapidly over the past few years and now monitors over 38,000 assets across the entire network. In order to do this, it is now made up of over 100 servers and has to cope with around 4 million packets of data a day.
The goal of the programme is to help move the organisation from a ‘find and fix’ approach to asset repairs to a ‘predict and prevent’ asset failure. It allows NR to:
Understand asset behaviour to assist in making a case for changing the maintenance intervention intervals
To achieve these goals, rail assets are monitored using non-intrusive techniques. Measurements are collected by data loggers which are then transmitted to a centralised alarm/alert processing and storage platform.
Network Rail requires a supplier to help them take this system forward by providing development and support capabilities. Therefore, Network Rail seeks expressions of interest for the following services:
The provision of software development and implementation services. The service provider is expected to provide build (including software design), test and implementation services for system enhancements including the implementation of new asset templates, which will be hosted within Network Rail infrastructure. Support and maintenance is also required. This specifically excludes Wonderware Licences.
Post the delivery of the software development and implementation services, the supplier is expected to provide a market leading managed service wrap, ensuring the platform is monitored, managed and maintained, achieving an enterprise class high availability standard via proactive, reactive and preventative means.
Network Rail requires the services of a suitably experienced and competent supplier to provide the following services, that may include but are not limited to:
software design, test and implementation services including the implementation of new asset templates (hosted on Network Rail infrastructure), support, maintenance, minor and major enhancements, patches, upgrades, other services that my be applicable during the full IT asset life-cycle.
Network Rail intend to award a 3-year contract with the option to extend the contract by 2 1-year periods.
Applicants should express their interest in participating in this procedure by email to Louise.billingham@networkrail.co.uk and James.johnston@networkrail.co.uk by 12 noon 20th April 2016.
It is Network Rails intention to issue the Pre Qualification Questionnaire to interested parties on or after 20.4.2016, however this date is subject to change. Completed PQQ's should be returned by 10:00 11.5.2016. Late submissions will not be accepted.