Supply of Safety Fencing to Network Rail
Netork Rail Infrastructure Limited wishes to procure a new supply Framework for safety fencing to meet the needs of its internal customers, work contractors and external customers.
United Kingdom-Milton Keynes: Safety fencing
2014/S 223-394820
Contract notice – utilities
Supplies
Directive 2004/17/EC
Section I: Contracting entity
I.1)Name, addresses and contact point(s)
Network Rail Infrastructrure Limited
The Quadrant: MK, Elder Gate
Contact point(s): National Supply Chain
For the attention of: Leonie Seymour
MK9 1EN Milton Keynes
UNITED KINGDOM
E-mail: leonie.seymour@networkrail.co.uk
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting entity: www.networkrail.co.uk
Further information can be obtained from: The above mentioned contact point(s)
Specifications and additional documents (including documents for 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)Main activity
I.3)Contract award on behalf of other contracting entities
Section II: Object of the contract
II.1.1)Title attributed to the contract by the contracting entity:
II.1.2)Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance
Purchase
Main site or location of works, place of delivery or of performance: UK.
NUTS code UK
II.1.3)Information about a public contract, a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system (DPS)
II.1.4)Information on framework agreement
Framework agreement with a single operator
Duration of the framework agreement
Duration in years: 5
II.1.5)Short description of the contract or purchase(s):
II.1.6)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
34928310, 45340000
II.1.7)Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
II.1.8)Information about lots
II.1.9)Information about variants
II.2.1)Total quantity or scope:
The fencing shall:
1. Be constructed of durable materials with a product life of at least 5 years under normal wear;
2. Be constructed of components that are sufficiently lightweight to be manually handled by one person in compliance with the HSE’s Manual Handling at Work guidelines;
3. Require little or no advance site preparation prior to installation;
4. Be fixed to the ground, sleepers or rail but without any penetration of the ground that would require cat scanning (to ensure avoidance of utilities) and without any drilling of sleepers or rail. (Where the fencing is fixed to the rail it must not interfere with the rail head and must allow the passage of rail mounted plant and equipment);
5. Be able to be used alongside, or in conjunction with all types of rail sections (including CEN56, CEN60 and 95LB), on straight and curved track and through switches and crossings;
6. Be able to be erected and dismantled using common hand held tools such that 100 m of fencing can be erected or dismantled by two people within a 25 minute line blockage;
7. Be adjustable to provide a separation distance from the rail of 1.25 m or 2 m;
8. Be 1 m in height with two horizontal (mid and top) rails;
9. Provide a barrier with sufficient rigidity to resist the lateral force of a man falling against it from the work-site side, but in an emergency allow a man to push the barrier out of the way from the live side;
10. Have no adverse effect upon S&T equipment;
11. Be made of fully traceable components;
12. Be usable in all extremes of UK weather; and
13. Comply with the following standards:
— Lineside Facilities for Personal Safety (RT/CE/S/069);
— Management of Fencing and Other Boundary Measures (NR/L2/TRK/5100);
— HSE Manual Handling at Work;
— Rule Book GERT 8000
Network Rail have an immediate demand for a reasonable quantity of the above fencing and the Supplier’s proposed fencing must already be in production and available to demonstrate its compliance with the specification. The fencing will be required to achieve product approval.
In addition to delivering goods compliant with all of the requirements listed above the Supplier shall provide a technical briefing note (in electronic form) detailing the key physical and performance characteristics, and installation and maintenance requirements for each product. On site installation and dismantling demonstrations will also be required.
Potential Developments
Whilst not a requirement at the present time Network Rail would expect to work with the Supplier to develop variants and additional forms of the temporary fencing that can be used in different circumstances to provide rapidly deployed safety solutions. Network Rail would also like the fencing uprights to be able to support ‘points run through boards’ and ‘TSR boards’.
II.2.2)Information about options
Description of these options: This contract will be for 3 years with a provision to allow it to be extended for up to a further 2 years.
II.2.3)Information about renewals
II.3)Duration of the contract or time limit for completion
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
III.1.2)Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions governing them:
III.1.4)Other particular conditions:
Description of particular conditions: The particular conditions will be details in the tender and contract documentation and will be based upon one of Network Rail’s standard forms of contract.
III.2.1)Personal situation of economic operators, including requirements relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers
III.2.2)Economic and financial ability
III.2.3)Technical capacity
III.3.1)Information about a particular profession
III.3.2)Staff responsible for the execution of the service
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1.1)Type of procedure
Some candidates have already been selected (if appropriate under certain types of negotiated procedures): no
IV.2.1)Award criteria
IV.2.2)Information about electronic auction
IV.3.2)Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract
IV.3.3)Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents
Payable documents: no
IV.3.4)Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
IV.3.7)Conditions for opening of tenders
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.1)Information about recurrence
VI.2)Information about European Union funds
VI.4.2)Lodging of appeals
VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice: