Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2021-06-30
Buyer: Iarnród Eireann-Irish Rail
Country: IE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 30211300 | 34514000 | 34514700 | 35125100: Sensors | 45316210
Submission deadline: 2021-07-28
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: This is a call to competition by Iarnród Éireann (IE) for the procurement of the Supply of the Remote Monitoring of Railway Assets Communications Platform.
— the system shall be accessible by IÉ personnel (and any third parties to whom IÉ wish to share the system) via a web platform (accessible through standard web-browsers) with a secure password-protected login. The web platform should also be accessible by a mobile smartphones,
The system will initially be required to store and process information for up to 3 200 sensor channels at up to 312 sites communicating in near real-time and should have sufficient capacity to increase the storage/processing capabilities for up to 10 000 sensor channels.
Iarnród Éireann (IÉ) are currently developing the design of systems for active monitoring of particular remote railway civil infrastructure items (assets). It is envisaged that these systems will provide IE with timely and effective warning and monitoring systems in order to determine for example; actual status, conditions and if these assets are becoming compromised within specified parameters. These systems may (as a minimum) have alert modes which will indicate failure in the following scenarios:
In order to perform the data storage and alarm communication requirements of these systems, IÉ are seeking to procure a communications system prior to installation of the monitoring equipment.
— the system shall be accessible by IÉ personnel (and any third parties to whom IÉ wish to share the system) via a web platform (accessible through standard web-browsers) with a secure password-protected login. The web platform should also be accessible by a mobile smartphones,
— there shall be no limit to the number of logins to the system, and the rights to usage of the system by any third parties shall be to the sole discretion of Irish Rail,
The system will initially be required to store and process information for up to 3 200 sensor channels at up to 312 sites communicating in near real-time and should have sufficient capacity to increase the storage/processing capabilities for up to 10 000 sensor channels.
A separate tender process will be conducted for the supply and installation of asset sensor systems which this communication platform will support.
3 years with options to extend by a further 3 years on a 1 plus 1 basis at IE’s discretion, subject to the terms and conditions of the Contract. (This contract is for a maximum of 6 years).
Applicants will be invited to complete a questionnaire (attached) which seeks company details; information on similar contracts undertaken with value, dates, locations and contact names for reference etc; applicants may be requested to provide supporting information such as balance sheets for the past three financial years.
The technical competence of the entity, its employees and processes must be established to the satisfaction of IE. Applicants will be invited to complete a questionnaire which seeks company details to establish the entity’s technical capacity.

Eligibility requirements: For full details, please download a copy of the attached Pre-Qualification Questionnaire.