Supply Installation and Maintenance Tram Information System

The Tram Information System shall obtain tram locations from the Supertram AVL system and use this to generate predictions of tram arrivals.

United Kingdom-Sheffield: Information systems

2014/S 171-303430

Contract notice

Services

Directive 2004/18/EC

Section I: Contracting authority

I.1)Name, addresses and contact point(s)

South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive
11 Broad Street West
S1 2BQ Sheffield
UNITED KINGDOM
E-mail: tendering@sypte.co.uk

Internet address(es):

General address of the contracting authority: http://www.sypte.co.uk/contracts

Further information can be obtained from: The above mentioned contact point(s)

Specifications and additional documents (including documents for competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained from: The above mentioned contact point(s)

Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: The above mentioned contact point(s)

I.2)Type of the contracting authority

Regional or local agency/office

I.3)Main activity

Other: transport

I.4)Contract award on behalf of other contracting authorities

The contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting authorities: no

Section II: Object of the contract

II.1)Description

II.1.1)Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority:

Supply Installation and Maintenance Tram Information System.

II.1.2)Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance

Services
Service category No 7: Computer and related services
Main site or location of works, place of delivery or of performance: South Yorkshire, England.
NUTS code

II.1.3)Information about a public contract, a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system (DPS)

The notice involves a public contract

II.1.4)Information on framework agreement

II.1.5)Short description of the contract or purchase(s)

South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive is looking for experienced contractors who could supply, install and maintain a new Tram Information System. This is to improve the information provision on the Sheffield Supertram Network. The contract value is estimated at between 150 000.00 and 200 000.00 GBP.
The Tram Information System shall obtain tram locations from the Supertram AVL system and use this to generate predictions of tram arrivals. The Tram Information System shall also contain a disruption management interface, allowing Supertram operators to enter disruption information. Outputs from the Tram Information System shall be in SIRI formats, including the Situation Exchange service for disruption information.

II.1.6)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)

48810000, 48813000, 48813200

II.1.7)Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

The contract is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA): yes

II.1.8)Lots

This contract is divided into lots: no

II.1.9)Information about variants

Variants will be accepted: no

II.2)Quantity or scope of the contract

II.2.1)Total quantity or scope:

Estimated value excluding VAT:
Range: between 150 000 and 200 000 GBP

II.2.2)Information about options

Options: no

II.2.3)Information about renewals

This contract is subject to renewal: no

II.3)Duration of the contract or time limit for completion

Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information

III.1)Conditions relating to the contract

III.1.1)Deposits and guarantees required:

III.1.2)Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions governing them:

III.1.3)Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded:

Joint and severally liable.

III.1.4)Other particular conditions

III.2)Conditions for participation

III.2.1)Personal situation of economic operators, including requirements relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: Completion of a PQQ will be required.

III.2.2)Economic and financial ability

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: Completion of a PQQ will be required.
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required: Satisfactory financial standing and accounts for the previous 3 years.

III.2.3)Technical capacity

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met:
Completion of a PQQ will be required.
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required:
1. Evidence of providing systems to provide real time information predictions for public transport operations at least 2 reference sites.
2. Evidence of ongoing dissemination of SIRI information at least 2 reference sites.
3. Evidence of disseminating disuption information in structured format for public transport operations at least 2 reference sites including details of formats and approach followed.

III.2.4)Information about reserved contracts

III.3)Conditions specific to services contracts

III.3.1)Information about a particular profession

Execution of the service is reserved to a particular profession: no

III.3.2)Staff responsible for the execution of the service

Legal persons should indicate the names and professional qualifications of the staff responsible for the execution of the service: yes

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1)Type of procedure

IV.1.1)Type of procedure

Restricted

IV.1.2)Limitations on the number of operators who will be invited to tender or to participate

Envisaged number of operators: 005

Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates: Expressions of interest will be evaluated against the minimum standards set out in III.2.2 and 2.3 above, if the number of candidates remain above the maximum set of 5 they will be evaluated on a scored assessment for technical capacity, full details of which are included in the documentation for this tender available on our web site at www.sypte.co.uk/contracts and the 5 highest scoring candidates will be invited.

IV.1.3)Reduction of the number of operators during the negotiation or dialogue

IV.2)Award criteria

IV.2.1)Award criteria

The most economically advantageous tender in terms of the criteria stated in the specifications, in the invitation to tender or to negotiate or in the descriptive document

IV.2.2)Information about electronic auction

An electronic auction will be used: no

IV.3)Administrative information

IV.3.1)File reference number attributed by the contracting authority:

2366

IV.3.2)Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract

IV.3.3)Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents or descriptive document

IV.3.4)Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate

6.10.2014 – 12:00

IV.3.5)Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to selected candidates

IV.3.6)Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be drawn up

English.

IV.3.7)Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender

IV.3.8)Conditions for opening of tenders

Section VI: Complementary information

VI.1)Information about recurrence

This is a recurrent procurement: no

VI.2)Information about European Union funds

The contract is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: no

VI.3)Additional information

Full information on the process for submitting expressions of interest for this tender is detailed in the documentation available for this contract on our web site at www.sypte.co.uk/contracts

VI.4)Procedures for appeal

VI.4.1)Body responsible for appeal procedures

South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive
11 Broad Street West
S1 2BQ Sheffield
UNITED KINGDOM
E-mail: jan.smallwood@sypte.co.uk

VI.4.2)Lodging of appeals

VI.4.3)Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained

South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive
11 Broad Street West
S1 2BQ Sheffield
UNITED KINGDOM
E-mail: jan.smallwood@sypte.co.uk

VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice:

4.9.2014