Consultancy Services for Railway Operations and Maintenance
The purpose of this Periodic Indicative Notice ('PIN') is to invite suitably experienced organisations to take part in market engagement for the delivery of Railway Operations and Maintenance Consultancy Services, in order to inform the development and finalisation of the proposed procurement and contracting approach. Further information on the intended approach and how potential suppliers can participate in HS2 Ltd’s market engagement exercise are set out below.
For clarity, this PIN and corresponding market engagement entitled 'Consultancy Services for Railway Operations and Maintenance' is the same procurement but with an updated title to the following:
o Infrastructure Management (IM) Readiness (PIN and Market Engagement issued on 23rd June 2023 (ref: 2023/S 000-018023)); and
o HS2 Operations Group (Market Engagement issued 10th October 2023).
HS2 Ltd intends to procure a contract for the provision of zero carbon energy to its entire route commencing at trial operations and dynamic testing stages through to [and during] full operations.
Further details about HS2 Ltd’s developing requirements are set out in the Market Sounding Briefing and Questionnaire referred to below.
This Periodic Indicative Notice ('PIN') is to inform suppliers that HS2 Ltd wishes to commence market engagement and seek responses to the questionnaire referred to in this PIN below.
Please follow this link https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/ZeroCarbonEnergy/ to access the full Market Sounding Briefing and Market Sounding Questionnaire. The deadline for this questionnaire is noon GMT on 28/02/24.
HS2 Ltd is intending to procure a contract for the provision of its Infrastructure Management Readiness Framework to support the internal HS2 Ltd resource in delivering the requirements outlined in the Market Sounding Briefing, prior to the opening of the railway. The aim is that that these external resources will support HS2 Ltd’s growing team, and assist HS2 Ltd’s Infrastructure Management team to:
Get ready for handover into live operations;
Safeguard the transition from Project into Operation; and
Ensure they are supported during the first and second year of Operations and normal running.
The purpose of this Periodic Indicative Notice ('PIN') is to invite potential suppliers to participate in market engagement and provide feedback on HS2 Ltd’s current approach which will inform the proposed procurement and contracting strategy.
Further information and how potential suppliers can participate in HS2 Ltd’s market engagement exercise are set out in II.2.4) and II.2.14) and VI.3) sections below.
HS2 Ltd anticipates publishing a Contract Notice during 2023 to commence the procurement and this will be a separate Contract Notice with no linkage to this Prior Indicative Notice.
HS2 Ltd is seeking to procure an Asset Information Management System (referred to as AIMS 2), with the aim of the new service commencing in April 2025. AIMS 2 will need to meet a defined group of capabilities required by the business over the short, medium and long-term programme.
The system will be of paramount importance for managing the life cycle of the physical railway assets, which will include, but not limited to ecology, land, civils (bridges, viaducts), stations and systems assets (track, signalling).
The purpose of this Period Indicative Notice (PIN) is to provide the market advanced notice of HS2's proposed procurement and to seek the market’s feedback on the high level requirements for this opportunity.
In order to provide feedback on the AIMS 2 high level requirements and access the Smart Survey questionnaire, please see Section VI.3 (Additional Information) of this Notice for further details on how to do this.
HS2 Rail Systems : Supply of On-Track Machines and Management of the Driving, Maintenance and Operation of On-Track Machines
This Periodic Indicative Notice ('PIN') is to inform suppliers that HS2 Ltd wishes to commence market engagement and seek responses to the questionnaire referred to in this PIN below.
The Market Sounding Briefing and Questionnaire referred to in this PIN is available at:
1) Supply some or all of a fleet of On-Track Machines to maintain HS2 infrastructure. Please follow the link here: https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/3QFJ73/
2) Management of Driving, Maintenance and Operation of the fleet of HS2 On-Track Machines. Please follow the link here: https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/HDZDK5/
The deadline for this questionnaire is 5pm UK GMT on Tuesday 7th June 2022