Published date: 10 February 2020

Last edited date: 11 February 2020

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: 2 March 2020

Contract summary

Industry

  • Petroleum products, fuel, electricity and other sources of energy - 09000000

  • Industrial machinery - 42000000

  • Research and development services and related consultancy services - 73000000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

P4/030/013b

Published date

10 February 2020

Closing date

2 March 2020

Contract start date

27 March 2020

Contract end date

30 September 2021

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (below threshold)

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

This procedure can be used for procurements below the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

The Department for Transport Dangerous Goods Division (DGD) intends to let a contract for the provision of detailed Finite Element Modelling (FEM) and Engineering Critical Assessment (ECA) of performance test procedures for technical assessments of petroleum road fuel tankers. This contract, referred to as Part C, is the subject of this Specification document, and together with Part A and Part B forms a series of research projects known collectively as WP5. It is anticipated that the outputs from WP5 will underpin UK proposals for performance-based test procedures to be included in relevant standards, a national technical code, a CEN Technical Report and/or regulations.

The summary scope of the work of Part C is to provide robust detailed FEM and ECA of petroleum road fuel tankers involving rollover, frontal, rear and side impacts, and to support the wider fuel tanker research via peer review. Rigid and articulated heavy goods vehicle tankers are in scope of this research.

The detailed scope of the work of the Part C Provider is to provide:
- Detailed Finite Element Modelling (FEM) of selected road fuel tankers designed to the ADR construction rules to determine a benchmark of performance under rollover, frontal, rear and side impacts.
- Detailed ECAs of particular failure mechanisms and predictions of structural failures and tank ruptures, capable of highlighting any deficiencies that could affect safety in accidents and under normal service conditions.

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About the buyer

Contact name

Carys Keeble

Address

Great Minster House,76 Marsham Street
LONDON
SW1P4DR
England

Email

carys.keeble@dft.gov.uk