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The Department is seeking to secure supply and delivery contracts for Permanent Cold-lay Surfacing Material (PCSM) and Permanent Cold-lay Surfacing Course material (PCSC) that fully meet the Departments operational needs in a sustainable manner, taking account of any opportunities for innovation and minimising environmental impacts. The contracts will facilitate depot representatives to purchase materials & products in order to meet their business needs.

As result of recent internal re-organisation within the Department for Infrastructure, coupled with an increased requirement for consultancy services to deliver new initiatives such as Active Travel, the Department intends to replace the Engineering Services Consultancy Partner Contract with three separate contracts as detailed below: Contract 1: Water and Departmental Delivery (WDD) Engineering Services Consultancy Partner Term : up to 5 years Estimated Contract value: £30m Contract 2: Transport and Road Asset Management (TRAM) East/West Engineering Services Consultancy Partner Term: up to 5 years Estimated Contract value: £48m Contract 3: Transport and Road Asset Management (TRAM) North/South Engineering Services Consultancy Partner Term: up to 5 years Estimated Contract value: £35m The Department intends to procure these contracts through two discrete procurement competitions. The first competition, to procure the WDD Engineering Services Consultancy Partner, will commence in July 2023 and will be awarded to a single Economic Operator. The second procurement competition will commence in August 2023 and will contain two lots (contracts); the TRAM East/West Engineering Services Consultancy Partner and; the TRAM North/South Engineering Services Consultancy Partner. Each contract will be awarded to a single Economic Operator. In order to ensure security of service, preserve competition and encourage participation by SMEs, the Department will limit the number of contracts that can be awarded to an Economic Operator, in the second competition, to one.

DfI Roads Operations and Maintenance requires the supply and delivery of 2 cold lay asphalt products manufactured from virgin and recycled aggregates.

ID 4755946 - DfI - Road Asset and Record Management Service – (PRE MARKET ENGAGEMENT EXERCISE) The Department for Infrastructure (NI), is currently preparing to initiate a procurement process to establish a contract with a Supplier to provide a hosted managed solution to ensure business continuity in respect of the management of road assets, lighting assets, public liability claims and road condition data. Prior to initiating the procurement the Department for Infrastructure (NI) wishes to establish the level of market interest in participating in the procurement process. Interested parties are requested to complete the questionnaire within the CfT documents area. Any requests for clarification relating to this exercise must be communicated using the secure messaging function on the eTendersNI portal. Responses to requests for clarification will be communicated by CPD to all interested suppliers through the eTendersNI messaging system. Your completed questionnaire should be uploaded within the eTendersNI portal via the relevant Call for Tender (CfT) clarifications messaging function. **PLEASE NOTE: ALL COMPLETED QUESTIONNAIRES MUST BE SUBMITTED VIA THE MESSAGING FUNCTION on eTendersNI (under reference ID 4755946), BEFORE 3PM ON FRIDAY 31 MARCH 2023**.

The proposed scheme comprises safety improvements along a 25km stretch of the A1 dual carriageway between Hillsborough and Loughbrickland. The improvements will include the provision of: • 4 new Compact Grade Separated Junctions (CGSJ) • A new northbound on-slip onto the A1 at Castlewellan Road, Banbridge • A new Link Road between the existing Hillsborough Road, Dromore, CGSJ and the Milebush Road • Closure of all gaps in the central reservation (circa 90 No) and installation of 25km of new concrete safety barrier • 21 Left In – Left Out junction arrangements • 9 Road Closures • Stopping Up of over 40 Private Accesses onto the A1 • Installation of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) including VMS, CCTV and ANPR • Extensive accommodation works throughout.

ID 5443075 - DfI - Rathlin Island Ferry Service Provision *Pre-market engagement* As part of DFI procurement preparation, the Construction Procurement Delivery (CPD) is running a Pre-Market Engagement exercise on their behalf and is inviting potential service providers to complete the attached questionnaire. The Department for Infrastructure (DFI) is preparing to initiate a procurement process to appoint a Contractor to provide a modern reliable ferry service between Rathlin Island and Ballycastle. At this stage, Department for Infrastructure wishes to establish the level of market interest to inform any subsequent procurement process. The questionnaire can be found on etendersNI using the reference number 5443075

The Department for Infrastructure seeks to obtain market feedback to inform the development of a new procurement strategy for roads construction and other related transport/civils works valued up to £5 million and road maintenance activities.

The Department for Infrastructure seeks to obtain market feedback to inform the development of a new procurement strategy for roads construction and other related transport/civils works valued up to £5 million and road maintenance.

The Department for Infrastructure is seeking to form a framework agreement comprising up to 6 suitably qualified and experienced companies to provide engineering design consultancy services to assist the Department in taking forward the planning, assessment and delivery of the current Strategic Road Improvement / Major Works Roads Programme; to develop / deliver new schemes identified in the forthcoming Transport Plans; to deliver schemes identified in City and Growth Deals; and to deliver large active travel projects as identified in future plans.

In March 2023, the Department for Infrastructure (DfI) published the Procurement Enhancement Programme procurement strategy, developed to provide an efficient and value for money procurement route for the delivery of road asset maintenance across Northern Ireland. A key output of this strategy is the introduction of a suite of eleven Road Asset Management (RAM) Frameworks covering all roads maintenance and improvement works valued at up to £5 million. Four Surfacing Frameworks (A, B, C and D) have been developed by DfI to ensure the effective, efficient, and reliable delivery of road surfacing schemes across the Northern Ireland public road network. Each framework will last four years, covering surfacing requirements across a specified set of geographical areas and provide an opportunity for suppliers that have the capacity and appetite to deliver all types of surfacing schemes valued from £50k up to £5m. Each Framework will be divided into Lots in accordance with Regulation 46 of the Public Contract Regulations 2015. This arrangement has been adopted in order to ensure security of service delivery, preserve competition and encourage participation by SMEs. One surfacing framework is expected to be released every year. There will be restrictions on the number of Lots that an individual supplier can be awarded, both within and across the surfacing frameworks, that will be set out in the procurement documents. DfI intends to invite tenders for the first of these frameworks, Surfacing Framework A, in late November 2024, with Framework places awarded in March 2025. Under Surfacing Framework A (this procurement), there will be a total of six Lots. There will be one Lot (Lot 1) covering all surfacing schemes valued from £750k to £5m across the geographical area covered by the Framework. Multiple suppliers will be appointed to this Lot. Call-Off Contracts awarded under Lot 1 are intended to be awarded following mini-competitions. There will also be five Lots (Lots 2 to 6) each covering all surfacing schemes valued from £50k to £750k which are to be delivered within a defined geographical area. It is intended that two suppliers will be appointed to each of Lots 2 to 6; a Primary Supplier, who will be awarded a Call-Off Measured Term Contract for the Lot area and a Reserve Supplier, who will be appointed to the Lot to provide resilience. Suppliers that are interested in this framework will be required to tender for Lot 1 and at least one of Lots 2 to 6. Further information on DfI's Procurement Enhancement Programme and Road Asset Management Frameworks can be found in the document titled RAM FRAMEWORKS - PROCUREMENT ESSENTIALS at the following link: https://www.infrastructure-ni.gov.uk/publications/department-infrastructure-roads-works-and-maintenance-procurement-enhancement-programme

The Department for Infrastructure (DfI) is in the process of reviewing the solution used to provide its Asset Management and Integrated Catchment Modelling Software. This notice is a further update to a previous market engagement carried out in June 2019. If you would like to express an interest you should send details of your operational system by e-mail to pb2@infrastructure-ni.gov.uk by 11/07/2024

Following completion of the market consultation exercise held in Autumn 2022, the Northern Ireland Department for Infrastructure developed a new procurement strategy for roads construction, road maintenance activities and other related transport/civils works valued up to £5 million which was published in March 2023. This new strategy, known as the Procurement Enhancement Programme, will be delivered through a series of Road Asset Management (RAM) Frameworks. The RAM Frameworks have been developed to provide an efficient and value for money procurement route for the Department for the management of road assets across Northern Ireland. The RAM programme will include eleven frameworks, covering all the road asset management & improvement works the Department undertakes regularly. These frameworks will be procured over a 4-year programme in ten separate procurement exercises. Frameworks will be limited to the following activities: surfacing; surface dressing; structures; road restraint systems; street lighting; small works; improvement projects; and road markings & surface treatments. Each NEC4 Framework will consist of a varying number of Lots representing a unique geographical works area. The scope of each Lot will be delivered using a 4-year ICC Measured Term Contract. Some frameworks will include further opportunities to bid through mini competition for one-off NEC4 ECC projects up to £5m required in all areas covered by the framework. The programme is now being rolled out by the Department, with the first procurement opportunities available from autumn 2024, commencing with Surfacing Framework A. The Department will be hosting an online information session on 20 June 2024 for surfacing suppliers interested in tendering for the Surfacing Framework A. If you are interested attending this event, please register your details at PB2@infrastructure-ni.gov.uk and a link to the event will be emailed to you. In the meantime, for more information please visit: Department for Infrastructure : Roads works and maintenance - Procurement Enhancement Programme | Department for Infrastructure (infrastructureni.gov.uk)