Published date: 17 July 2017

Last edited date: 17 July 2017

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 21 July 2017

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research and development services and related consultancy services - 73000000

Location of contract

EC2M 2RB

Value of contract

£65,000 to £75,000

Procurement reference

RSSB2593 - T995-01 - Revise and refine current locomotive gauge in GERT8073 Appendix N

Published date

17 July 2017

Closing date

21 July 2017

Contract start date

21 August 2017

Contract end date

31 August 2018

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

THE TENDER END DATE FOR THIS PROJECT HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO FRIDAY 21st July 5PM


This work package (WP1) is part of project T995 - Development of a new locomotive gauge, which includes two Work Packages: T995-01 Revise and refine current locomotive gauge in GERT8073 Appendix N and T995-02 External Technical Expertise.
This project T995 - Development of a new locomotive gauge has two work packages:

• Work Package 01- Revise and refine current locomotive gauge in GERT8073 Appendix N (described in this document)

• Work Package 02 - External Technical Expertise

This project follows on from previous projects to develop standard vehicle gauges, namely T977 - Development of a revised lower sector vehicle gauge and T978 Development of Passenger Standard Vehicle Gauges PG1 (20m) and PG2 (23m), which have already been delivered.

This research workstream supports the Vehicle/ Structure System Interface Committee's (V/S SIC's) long term Gauging strategy which aims to:

a) Maximise Capacity on Great Britain's Rail Network by adopting European size gauges/ vehicles over a core, nationwide network;

b) Define and implement standard infrastructure and vehicle gauges and provide an optimised Customer experience at the Platform Train Interface;

c) Lower Costs of gauging to the industry;

d) Contribute to Great Britain's reduction in Carbon emissions through modal shift.

This particular project (T995) looks at refining the current locomotive gauge so that it can be applied for both sides of the vehicle to infrastructure interface. The aim of the research is to have a matched loco/ infrastructure/ lower sector gauge family that will go 'nearly everywhere' with clear understanding and agreement of where a resultant compliant locomotive will not go and what the consequences/ costs/ benefits are of the resultant exception list of sites where the locomotive gauge has sub-standard clearance.

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About the buyer

Contact name

R&D Business Partner

Address

The Helicon
London
EC2M 2RB
England

Email

shareditt@rssb.co.uk