Published date: 21 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: 5 March 2020

Contract summary

Industry

  • Signalling lights - 31518000

  • Sound or visual signalling apparatus - 31620000

  • Signalling equipment - 34942000

    • Traffic-monitoring equipment - 34970000

    • Control, safety, signalling and light equipment - 34990000

Location of contract

South East

Value of contract

£101,000 to £150,000

Procurement reference

C4N47989961

Published date

21 February 2020

Closing date

5 March 2020

Contract start date

28 August 2020

Contract end date

27 December 2024

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Competitive quotation (below threshold)

The buyer selects a group of potential suppliers to invite to tender.

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Design Considerations

Location
Creighton/Greatmoor Road is an existing private access road to the FCC Energy from Waste (EfW) plant from the A41, as indicated on the location plan below.

Traffic flows
The objective of the traffic signalling system design/installation is to control HGV vehicles using Creighton/Greatmoor Road so that the capacity can be increased to accommodate an EK requirement of an additional 100no. HS2 HGV's per day (peak) over the FCC HGV planning limit (600no. per day) - see traffic modelling reports referenced in item 1.1. In addition, there is a requirement to accommodate a relatively small volume of FCC/EK LGV vehicles that will be accessing the site offices at the north end of this section of road (50no. vehicles/day arriving between 7 and 9am and leaving between 4 and 6pm).

Site Constraints
The site is an historic railway embankment that was converted to an access road for the FCC Energy from Waste (EfW) site in 2014. The width restriction was applied to preserve the hedges/vegetation eg. Hawthorn growing along the sides of the corridor as it forms an important habitat for bats and Black Hairstreak butterflies. Therefore, the design of the traffic signalling system must be sympathetic to the location by limiting groundworks or de-vegetation. From the traffic modelling reports it is not envisaged that there is a requirement to extend or provide additional passing bays and that any site works will be limited to the installation of the traffic signalling system. It will not be possible to close the road to FCC deliveries, however if absolutely necessary it should be possible by prior agreement with FCC to do installation work at the weekend when they are not operating. This area is included in the Bernwood Bat licence area and so to be sympathetic to the environment dawn and dusk working for the installation of this equipment should be avoided where possible.

Monitoring and External reporting
In developing the traffic signalling scheme, provision will need to be made for the following items to be monitored:
- Monitoring vehicles passing Red signals
- Monitoring back-up and waiting times of vehicles at South end towards A41
- Monitoring journey times for vehicles travelling through the traffic signal-controlled corridor
- Monitoring failure of equipment
- Self-reporting of failures in equipment/operation to the EK Logistics team (if it is reporting to logistics or some sort of automatic signage on the A41, it is important that there is a mechanism to stop vehicles accessing off of the A41 if there is already a problem. This may not be possible, and it may be a procedure/briefing to drivers not to enter the access road if it has backed up to the A41, because we cannot afford to block traffic there with vehicles queueing).

Design life
The design standards may dictate a minimum design life to be c

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About the buyer

Contact name

Chris Read

Address

Floor 5, 19 Cornwall Street
Birmingham
B3 2DT
England

Telephone

07792825436

Email

supplychainenquiries@eiffagekier-hs2.team