Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2020-11-11
Buyer: Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Contract award without prior publication
CPV classification: 72224000: Project management consultancy services
Estimated value: 20000000 GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The scope of services to be supplied under the framework shall comprise, but not limited to, the following elements:
A periodic meeting will be required with the managed service framework contractors, to discuss items including but not limited to:
Provide a planning management service for NW&C capital delivery ensuring this is delivered to relevant Network Rail and third party client processes.
The initial term of the framework shall be 2 years, two months, with an option to extend for a year, then a further year (2 + 1 + 1); maximum 4-year, 2-month duration) subject to business need and performance.
Provision of a Document Management Service, responsible to the project team for the maintenance and delivery of the Document Management System. Ensuring information is correctly stored, managed and distributed to the project team and other stakeholders. Establishing and maintaining protocols arounds the systems and administering levels of security and coherence as required.
The initial term of the framework shall be 2 years, 2 months, with an option to extend for a year, then a further year (2 + 1 + 1; maximum 4-year, 2-month duration) subject to business need and performance.
Provision of risk and value service, responsible to the project team for the maintenance of risk registers and the Active Risk Manager (ARM) database. Also responsible for coordinating Quantitative Schedule Risk Analysis (QRSA) and Quantitative Cost Risk Analysis (QCRA) activities as required by the schedule across the portfolio of projects. Ensuring information is accurately captured, processed, analysed and reports and actions distributed and followed up on as appropriate.
The initial term of the framework shall be 2 years, 2 months, with an option to extend for a year, then a further year (2 + 1 + 1; maximum 4-year, 2-month duration) subject to business need and performance.
Provision of an 'Integrated Planning' service, to fully integrate works on multi-disciplinary projects and coordinate programme of work, including testing and commissioning requirements where applicable, between Network Rail, it's principal contractor, and subcontractors.
The initial term of the framework shall be two years, two months, with an option to extend for a year, then a further year (2 + 1 + 1; maximum 4-year, two-month duration) subject to business need and performance.
The services are Rail specific and therefore the Railway industry Supplier Qualification Scheme (RISQS) was used as the route to market for this requirement. This requirement is largely Rail specific and requires suppliers that are knowledgeable to in the Railway Infrastructure to support this managed service. The market was approached issuing an expression of interest to suppliers under the following RISQS codes: H.K.5.11.15 Planning and Estimating, H.K.5.11.16 Risk andValue, H.K.5.11.3 Information Management and H.K.8.3 Project Planning.


Winner: Turner and Townsend Project Management Ltd
Award value: 20000000
Number of bids: 13