CONTRACT NOTICE - UTILITIES

Section I: Contracting Entity

I.1)

Name, Address and Contact Point(s)

I.2)

Main activity or activities of the contracting entity

	Production, transport and distribution of gas and heat
	Electricity
	Exploration and extraction of gas and oil
	Exploration and extraction of coal and other solid fuels
	Water
	Postal services
	Railway services
	Urban railway, tramway, trolleybus or bus services
	Port-related activities
	Airport-related activities

Section II: Object of the Contract

II.1)

Description

II.1.1)

Title attributed to the contract by the contracting entity

Replacement Availability and Reservations Service.

II.1.2(a))

Type of works contract

II.1.2(b))

Type of supplies contract

II.1.2(c))

Type of service contract

II.1.2)

Site or location of works, place of delivery or performance

Nationwide.

II.1.3)

This notice involves

A public contract
The setting up of a Dynamic Purchasing System
The establishment of a framework agreement

II.1.4)

Information on framework agreement (if applicable)

Framework agreement with a single operator
Framework agreement with several operators

Number of participants to the framework agreement envisaged

Duration of the framework agreement

Estimated total value of purchases for the entire duration of the framework agreement

Frequency of the contracts to be awarded

II.1.5)

Short description of the contract or purchase(s)

Rail Settlement Plan Limited (‘RSP’) is a company, owned by Train Operating Companies (‘TOCs’) franchised to operate train services in the United Kingdom. RSP provides and manages, on behalf of TOCs, a range of shared services for use by TOCs and accredited rail ticket retailers enabling provision of a GB wide rail ticket retail proposition. This is achieved by delivering the right information at the right time to the rail ticket retailer, and through capture of sales records for accurate and timely allocation and settlement of revenues. In order to sell and fulfil many types of rail ticket products, the rail ticketing systems used by retailers need real time access to availability data and the facility to book customer journeys. The service shall consist of the following underlying services: design, development and delivery of the application, application maintenance and support, service management, hosting and infrastructure management.

RSP wishes to procure a new managed service for (the ‘Service’) as described in summary in this notice.

The Service will be required to provide a repository for the storage and maintenance of all UK Train Operating Company (‘TOC’) physical inventory data, train schedule data, commercial yield strategies (Including the exchange of data with external toolsets) and its associated reference data. The Service will determine on a real time basis availability for all TOC bookable services on the basis of a dynamic application of inventory and yield strategies against bookable scheduled train services.

Availability data will, initially, be made available, real time, to the 50-100 existing accredited retail systems by either an enhanced version of the existing request/response messaging service through web services and a new publish and subscribe facility of dynamic data exchange.

The Service will be fully resilient, and be of a high availability (typically 99.99 %), transaction heavy nature with high performance 365/7 availability characteristic.

There are currently around 20-30 million availability searches generated per day at a rate of up to 900 transactions per second. Daily bookings amount to around 350 000 per day. Annual growth of volumes is at around 10 % but unpredictable. The Look: Book ratio currently stands at 133:1.

II.1.6)

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

II.1.7)

Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

II.1.8)

Division into lots

II.1.9)

Will variants be accepted

II.2)

Quantity or Scope of the Contract

II.2.1)

Total quantity or scope

II.2.2)

Options

Provisional timetable for recourse to these options

Number of possible renewals

In the case of renewable contracts, estimated time frame for subsequent calls for competition:

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 Terms of financing and payment and/or reference to the relevant provisions

III.1.3)

Legal form to be taken by the grouping of suppliers, contractors or service providers to whom the contract is to be awarded

III.1.4)

Other particular conditions to which the performance of the contract is subject

III.2)

Conditions for Participation

III.2.1)

Personal situation of suppliers,contractors or service providers

Details of RSP's requirements are contained in its PQQ document.

III.2.2)

Economic and financial capacity

Details of RSP's requirements are contained in its PQQ document.

III.2.3)

Technical capacity

III.2.4)

Reserved contracts

The contract is restricted to sheltered workshops
The execution of the contract is restricted to the framework of sheltered employment programmes

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1)

Type of Procedure

Open		Restricted
Negotiated		Have candidates already been selected?	No

IV.2)

Award Criteria

IV.2.2)

An electronic auction will be used

IV.3) Administrative Information

IV.3.1)

Reference number attributed to the notice by the contracting entity

IV.3.2)

Previous publication concerning the same contract

Periodic indicative notice
Notice on a buyer profile

Other previous publications

IV.3.3)

Conditions for obtaining contract document and additional documents

IV.3.4)

Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate

IV.3.5)

Language or languages in which tenders or requests to participate can be drawn up

IV.3.6)

Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain its tender 

IV.3.7)

Conditions for opening tenders

Section VI: Complementary Information

VI.1)

Indicate whether this Procurement is a Recurrent one and the estimated timing for further notices to be published

VI.2)

Does the contract relate to a Project/Programme financed by Community Funds?

VI.3)

Additional Information

Further detail of RSP's requirements for the Service is available in a PQQ document upon request to atocrspprocurement@atoc.org. Full requirement details shall be provided in the invitation to tender made available to short-listed respondents.

Please note:

Requests for further documentation should be sent to atocrspprocurement@atoc.org. No other channel acceptable; and

Requests for further information and also PQQ submissions should be sent to rsp.tenders@atoc.org. No other channel acceptable.

(MT Ref:145931).

VI.4)

Procedures for appeal

VI.4.1)

Body responsible for appeal procedures

Body responsible for mediation procedures

VI.4.2)

Lodging of appeals

VI.4.3)

Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained

VI.5)

Dispatch date of this Notice

ANNEX A

Additional Addresses and Contact Points

I)

Address and contact points from which further information can be obtained

II)

Address and contact point from which additional documentation may be obtained

III)

Address and contact point to which Tenders/Requests to Participate must be sent