Published date: 6 February 2019

Last edited date: 6 February 2019

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: 8 March 2019

Contract summary

Industry

  • Road transport services - 60100000

  • Highway operation services - 63712200

  • Traffic control services - 63712700

    • Traffic monitoring services - 63712710

    • IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support - 72000000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£400,000 to £475,000

Procurement reference

TSC001-DN387403-66658747

Published date

6 February 2019

Closing date

8 March 2019

Contract start date

21 April 2019

Contract end date

31 January 2020

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 seeks to develop a decision support tool for incident management and operational planning of the strategic road network, in support of a Highways England's DSRN vision. In particular, the scope of works will require the successful Respondent to:

Develop an incident management tool, capable of supporting operations at the West Midlands Regional Control Centre. The decision support tool will encompass the entire 'Birmingham Box', a region bounded by the M5, M6 and M42.

Develop a tool that can identify spare capacity in the network (around the Birmingham Box). This could involve identifying when to change speed limits, deploy ramp metering, altering the traffic light sequence, etc.

Install the developed software at the West Midland Regional Control Centre and lead a user testing phase.

The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge, at: https://procontract.due-north.com

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

Digital Strategic Road Network (DSRN): DEVELOPMENT OF AN INCIDENT MANAGEMENT SIMULATION and VISUALISATION PLATFORM

  • Opportunity
  • Published 6 February 2019, last edited 6 February 2019

Additional text

The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge, at: https://procontract.due-north.com

About the buyer

Address

3rd Floor The Pinnacle
170 Midsummer Boulevard
Milton Keynes
MK9 1BP
England

Email

procurement@ts.catapult.org.uk

Website

https://procontract.due-north.com