UK Public Sector Contracts & Tenders

The purpose of this tender is to undertake a 'deep dive' and assess a sample of the actions taken by TfL and Hitachi Rail in relation to the requirements of relevant standards. The deep dive will include: Review the software development practices in place now for the next major software upgrade, including a deep dive to look at a sample of subsystem specification and associated software specification. Opinion will be required on the scope and sufficiency of testing as preparation for the next major software upgrade, to include a sample verification that any root cause analyses which may have the potential to affect safety have been addressed, as well as an assessment of any equally effective measures which have been undertaken.

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The project will focus on developing a set of leading indicators of passenger and freight train punctuality and reliability, which create the precondition for success, giving insight into the steps the rail industry is taking to improve outcomes for passengers and freight. Additional information: The tender exercise is being managed via the ORR Procurement portal (BRAVO). All tender clarification questions must be raised via the portal.

The successful consultants will undertake a review of National Highways' approach to monitoring and evaluating the impact of the smart motorway action plan and consider initial results from this work.   ORR will use the findings to inform our assessment of National Highways' progress in evaluating the impact of the smart motorway action plan. In particular, whether the company's approach continues to follow best practice. We will report our conclusions in our next annual assessment of safety performance on the strategic road network, due to be published in February 2025.  

The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) is commissioning a project to review how National Highways (NH) is progressing its License commitment (5.12) to adopt a Whole-life cost (WLC) approach to managing its assets and provide clarification on the application of the Licence condition. This review will focus on investments related to Operations, Maintenance and Renewals (OMR).

The scope of work comprises the recalibration of the Network Rail and Train Operator Payment Rates, Network Rail and Train Operator Benchmarks and Sustained Poor Performance (SPP) thresholds in the passenger Schedule 8 regime. Each of these parameters (except SPP thresholds, which are defined at the train operator level) is defined at a service group level, of which there are around 150, and must be recalibrated for each of these service groups. Monitoring Points, Monitoring Point Weightings and Cancellation Minutes are out of scope, as explained in this section under 'Exclusions from scope'.

The objectives of this consultancy is to provide evidence and assessment for ORR to assure itself that National Highways is actively meeting the requirements of its licence conditions concerning stakeholder engagement and to provide recommendations to improve how ORR holds National Highways to account to meet certain licence conditions.  

Issuing a prompt and professional call for evidence TO enable ORR to demonstrably engage with the public on an issue of public concern.

Provision of support is required to assist ORR in its preparations for the forthcoming Fatal Accident Inquiry (FAI) into the death of a pedestrian in a collision with a tram.

Specialist support to lead our investigation of how rail industry retail platforms and systems contribute to ticketing irregularities experienced by passengers.

The purpose of the project is to examine the extent to which Eurostar ("the Depot operator") is making reasonably efficient use of the Depot to undertake train maintenance, repair or overhaul work and to use it as a stabling location.

An independent agency to undertake a significant quantity of qualitative-depth interviews with frontline and revenue protection rail staff and report publishable findings within a short timescale.

Provision of Occupational Health & EAP Services

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Revenue Protection Research

Train Driver Licensing (TDL) Enhancements and Support