Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-03-29
Buyer: Translink
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 34621000 | 34621200 | 34940000 | 34946120 | 50113100
Submission deadline: 2019-05-03
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Translink require competent economic operators to support their (NIR) Rail engineering division. Translink intends to create a pre-qualified list of economic operators who can provide these services for some of the unique items used by NIR. In order to make the short list economic operators must be able to unequivocally demonstrate competence to sustain any existing OEM warranties. Your proposal must be submitted within the eTendersNI portal, via this CfT. No other method of submission will be accepted.
Let’s work together: follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/TranslinkB2B for opportunites worth 30 000 GBP or more. Check out our website at www.translink.co.uk/Corporate/Procurement/
For assistance using eTendersNI and registering your organisation please contact the helpdesk whose number is located on the eTendersNI contact us page.
Note: do not leave completing your PQQ/ITT response until the last minute, late responses shall be rejected. The contracting authority reserves the right not to award any contract as a result of this competition.
About the Translink Group: throughout the documentation, both “Translink” and “Group” refer to the same corporate entities. Both shall be taken to comprise the Northern Ireland Transport Holding Company (NITHC) in addition to its main operating subsidiaries Citybus Ltd, Northern Ireland Railways Company Ltd and Ulsterbus Ltd.
Let’s work together: follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/TranslinkB2B for opportunites worth 30 000 GBP or more. Check out our website at www.translink.co.uk/Corporate/Procurement/
For assistance using eTendersNI and registering your organisation please contact the helpdesk whose number is located on the eTendersNI contact us page.
Note: do not leave completing your PQQ/ITT response until the last minute, late responses shall be rejected. The contracting authority reserves the right not to award any contract as a result of this competition.
About the Translink Group: throughout the documentation, both “Translink” and “Group” refer to the same corporate entities. Both shall be taken to comprise the Northern Ireland Transport Holding Company (NITHC) in addition to its main operating subsidiaries Citybus Ltd, Northern Ireland Railways Company Ltd and Ulsterbus Ltd.
The Translink Group will incorporate a standstill period at the point information on the award of the contract is communicated to tenderers. That notification will provide full information on the award decision. The standstill period, which will be for a minimum of 10 calendar days, provides time for unsuccessful tenderers to challenge the award decision before the contract is entered into. The Utilities Contracts Regulations 2006 provide for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by a breach of the rules to take action in the High Court (England, Wales and Northern Ireland).

Eligibility requirements: Let’s work together: follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/TranslinkB2B for opportunites worth 30 000 GBP or more. Check out our website at www.translink.co.uk/Corporate/Procurement/ Participate in tenders at https://etendersni.gov.uk/epps For assistance using eTendersNI and registering your organisation please contact the helpdesk whose number is located on the eTendersNI contact us page. Note: do not leave completing your PQQ/ITT response until the last minute, late responses shall be rejected. The contracting authority reserves the right not to award any contract as a result of this competition. About the Translink Group: throughout the documentation, both “Translink” and “Group” refer to the same corporate entities. Both shall be taken to comprise the Northern Ireland Transport Holding Company (NITHC) in addition to its main operating subsidiaries Citybus Ltd, Northern Ireland Railways Company Ltd and Ulsterbus Ltd.