Published date: 13 October 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.
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
Value of contract
£260,000
Procurement reference
TFL001-DN504472-02855142
Published date
13 October 2020
Closing date
22 October 2020
Closing time
3pm
Contract start date
23 December 2020
Contract end date
31 December 2022
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?
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 signalling competency assessment of RFLI staff. The Assessments will be against RFLI Competence Standards for Signal Engineering.
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: Thursday 22nd 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 Thursday 22nd October 2020.
We would encourage you to ensure your organisation is registered on ProContract and/or your details are up to date by the 22nd October to enable TfL to invite you to tender, so you can gain access to the tender documentation and submit a tender
About the buyer
Contact name
Janny Graves
Address
Windsor House
42-50 Victoria Street
London
SW1H 0BD
United Kingdom
Telephone
+44 87790
Website
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