CONTRACT AWARD 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

Rail Settlement Systems Data Capture, Apportionment and Settlement 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

United Kingdom.

II.1.3)

This notice involves

II.1.4)

Short description of the contract or purchase(s)

Rail Settlement Plan (RSP) is a company owned by Train Operating Companies franchised to operate train services in Great Britain. It provides a range of largely IT based services to those operators as well as open access operators, third party providers of information and retail services including the capture of rail ticket transaction records for accurate and timely allocation and settlement of revenues.

In order to capture, apportion and settle rail ticket transactions as well as providing a full range of management information capabilities, a number of systems and services are required. RSP wishes to procure the replacement systems and services which are described in summary in this notice. The systems and services are categorised as:

The system design, development, application management, hosting and support for the capture, validation and apportionment capabilities associated with rail ticket transaction records (the ‘Data Capture and Apportionment Service’);

The system design, development, application management, hosting and support for the accounting and settlement system (the ‘Settlement Service’);

The system design, development, application management, hosting and support for an apportionment factor behavioural modelling system for the allocation of through and inter-available rail ticket transactions (the ‘ORCATS Service’);

The system design, development, application management, hosting and support for a data repository and reporting portal used by data owners to access industry data and pre-defined settlement reports (the ‘Data Warehouse Service’); and

The system design, development, application management, hosting and support for an account maintenance portal used by settlement parties to view and request settlement account changes (the ‘Portal Service’).

Further detail of RSP's requirements for the Services is available in the PQQ documentation but full requirement details shall be provided in the invitation to tender made available to short-listed respondents. Respondents are invited to bid for any combination of the services set out in this notice.

The duration of any contract awarded under this notice would be 60 months from the introduction into live service (go live) of the specified service.

II.1.5)

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

II.I.6)

Contract covered by the government procurement agreement (GPA)

II.2)

Total final value of the contract(s) awarded

II.2.1)

Total final value of the contract(s) awarded

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1)

Type of procedure

IV.1.1)

Type of procedure

IV.2)

Award criteria

IV.2.1)

Award criteria

IV.2.2)

An electronic auction has been used

IV.3)

Administrative information

IV.3.1)

Reference number attributed to the notice by the contracting entity

IV.3.2)

Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract

Other previous publications

Section V: Award of contract

V.1)

Award and Contract Value

Contract No:

 Title: 

Lot No:

V.1.1)

Date of contract award

V.1.2)

Numbers of offers received

V.1.3)

Name and address of economic operator to whom the contract has been awarded

V.1.4)

Information on value of contract

V.1.5)

The contract likely to be subcontracted

Short description of the value/proportion of the contract to be subcontracted

V.1.6)

Price paid for bargain purchases

Section V: Award of contract

V.1)

Award and Contract Value

Contract No:

 Title: 

Lot No:

V.1.1)

Date of contract award

V.1.2)

Numbers of offers received

V.1.3)

Name and address of economic operator to whom the contract has been awarded

V.1.4)

Information on value of contract

V.1.5)

The contract likely to be subcontracted

Short description of the value/proportion of the contract to be subcontracted

V.1.6)

Price paid for bargain purchases

Section V: Award of contract

V.1)

Award and Contract Value

Contract No:

 Title: 

Lot No:

V.1.1)

Date of contract award

V.1.2)

Numbers of offers received

V.1.3)

Name and address of economic operator to whom the contract has been awarded

V.1.4)

Information on value of contract

V.1.5)

The contract likely to be subcontracted

Short description of the value/proportion of the contract to be subcontracted

V.1.6)

Price paid for bargain purchases

Section V: Award of contract

V.1)

Award and Contract Value

Contract No:

 Title: 

Lot No:

V.1.1)

Date of contract award

V.1.2)

Numbers of offers received

V.1.3)

Name and address of economic operator to whom the contract has been awarded

V.1.4)

Information on value of contract

V.1.5)

The contract likely to be subcontracted

Short description of the value/proportion of the contract to be subcontracted

V.1.6)

Price paid for bargain purchases

Section V: Award of contract

V.1)

Award and Contract Value

Contract No:

 Title: 

Lot No:

V.1.1)

Date of contract award

V.1.2)

Numbers of offers received

V.1.3)

Name and address of economic operator to whom the contract has been awarded

V.1.4)

Information on value of contract

V.1.5)

The contract likely to be subcontracted

Short description of the value/proportion of the contract to be subcontracted

V.1.6)

Price paid for bargain purchases

Section VI: Complementary Information

VI.1)

Contract related to a project and/or programme financed by community funds?

VI.2)

Additional Information

(MT Ref: 175851).

VI.3)

Procedures for appeal

VI.3.1)

Body responsible for appeal procedures

Body responsible for mediation procedures

VI.3.2)

Lodging of appeals

VI.3.3)

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

VI.4)

Dispatch date of this Notice