United Kingdom-Belfast: Railway-track maintenance services

The Project is for the provision of Plant and Labour to supplement Translink's own in-house resources. The work sites will be at multiple locations across the Northern Ireland Railways' Network within Northern Ireland. The successful Economic Operator will be expected to work night shifts, on weekends and during holidays as well as during the normal working week of Monday to Friday. The work is within the railway environment which is safety critical. The majority of personnel employed by the successful Economic Operator, on this project will have to undergo a Drugs and Alcohol Medical and attend a Personnel Track Safety course.
The Contract with the successful Economic Operator will be for an initial period of two years, commencing in January 2014 and running until December 2015. There will also be an option on the Contract to extend it with the mutual consent of both Northern Ireland Railways Ltd and the successful Economic Operator for a period on two years, through an annual review at the end of Year 2 and the end of Year 3 (2 Years + 1 Year +1 Year).
The principal items of work to be delivered by the successful Economic Operator to NIR are envisaged as:-
- Provision of General Operatives with the Personnel Track Safety (PTS) qualification.
- Provision of Track Safety Co-ordinators (TSC)
- Provision of Engineering Supervisors (ES)
- Provision of Persons in Charge of Possession (PICOP)
- Provision of Road/ Rail Excavators
- Provision of Road/Rail Trailers
- Provision of Road/rail dumpers
- Provision of Tipping Lorries
- Provision of Tracked Excavators
- Provision of Low-loader lorries
- Provision of certified and qualified Plant Operatives
Other possible items of work to be delivered by the successful Economic Operator to NIR are envisaged as:-
- Spot road surfacing at level crossings
- White lining of road pavements at level crossings
- Emergency call-outs
- General callouts to supplement the in-house resources
- Track Welding
- Weed Spraying
2.2 Estimated value
The estimated value, excluding VAT, of the project is in the cost range of GBP 1,000,000 to GBP 1,500,000. per year with and overall value of GBP 4,000,000 - GBP 6,000,000 if the contract is extended to its maximum of 4 years.
2.3 Form of contract
An NEC3 Form of contract shall be used for this Project. It is envisaged that this will be either a Fixed Term Form.
Full details of the contract will be set out in the Invitation to Tender Documents.

50225000 - Railway-track maintenance services