Published date: 14 October 2020

Last edited date: 14 October 2020

Closed early engagement


Closing date: 23 October 2020

Contract summary

Industry

  • Construction work - 45000000

  • Transport services (excl. Waste transport) - 60000000

  • Adult and other education services - 80400000

    • Training services - 80500000

    • Training services in defence and security materials - 80600000

Location of contract

United Kingdom

Procurement reference

TFL001-DN504774-48765263

Published date

14 October 2020

Closing date

23 October 2020

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

Rail for London Infrastructure (RFLI), a Transport for London (TfL) subsidiary company, will take over responsibility for the Safety, Operations, Maintenance and Renewal of the Crossrail Central Operating Section (CCOS) that runs mostly in tunnels between Paddington, Stratford and Abbey Wood.

RFLI staff will need to be competent and have an approved Safety Management System (SMS) necessary to become the Infrastructure Manager for the CCOS. RFLI must train, assess and maintain the competence of its staff and demonstrate such to gain the authority to operate.

RFLI wishes to engage a Service Provider to provide Assessors who can conduct Mechanical, Electrical and Public Health and Fire (MEP) of RFLI staff. The Assessments will be against RFLI Competence Standards for MEP.

The purpose of the Assessment is to ensure that RFLI staff have the skills, knowledge and behaviours that can be demonstrated with evidence gathered to be deemed competent and awarded a licence/ permit/ authority to work.

Service Provider can subcontract the technical expert knowledge and form an assessor panel.

The contract will be for 2 years with an option to extend for a further 1 year.

Full details will be provided in the scope of specification to those providers invited to compete.

The competition will be undertaken on TfL e-tendering portal:
https://procontract.due-north.com

Invitations to tender will be issued on the e-tendering platform to those Suppliers who express an interest by the date stated below.


Timeline

Expression of Interest - Supplier response: Friday 23rd October 2020
ITT issue (via ProContract) w/c Monday 26th October 2020
ITT return w/c Monday 16th November 2020
Contract Award w/c Monday 21st December 2020

The above dates are for indicative purposes only and may be subject to change.

If you are interested in being considered for this work please respond to this expression of interest by Friday 23rd October 2020.
We would encourage you to ensure your organisation is registered on ProContract and/or your details are up to date by the 23rd October to enable TfL to invite you to tender, so you can gain access to the tender documentation and submit a tender

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

TfL 95421 RFLI - Mechanical, Electrical and Public Health and Fire (MEP) Competency Assessment for Rail for London Infrastructure- Maintenance Assessment

  • Early engagement
  • Published 14 October 2020

About the buyer

Contact name

Janny Graves

Address

Windsor House
42-50 Victoria Street
London
SW1H 0BD
England

Telephone

+44 87790

Email

jannygraves@tfl.gov.uk

Website

https://tfl.gov.uk