Single provider to deliver video production services to promote its messages on safety, health, sustainability and passenger experience. This includes planned and ad hoc video content procured on a project by project basis.
Provision of eyecare vouchers (eye tests and spectacles) to employees in accordance with the HSE regulations on employers for VDU usage.
Additional information: A decision was made to contract directly with the Contractor as no compliant route to market was identified.
Provision of objective specialist advice on areas related to transport.
Additional information: Direct award through the CCS Management Consultancy Framework Three (MCF3) framework.
RSSB is looking to secure an integrated marketing agency to help in the development of a range of promotional sources from fully integrated brand campaigns, specific campaigns covering one-off projects to small ad hoc projects covering a variety of deliverables.
RSSB is seeking to procure research to assessing the benefits of enhanced freight speed differentials on the GB network. This project will determine and agree the criteria that a train must satisfy in order to safely travel at enhanced freight speeds, up to the maximum speed of the wagons. It will review if assumed braking capabilities in GKRT0075 and GMRT2045 are too conservative and can allow eligible freight trains to travel at an EF speed. This will be done by proposing a set of EF speed differentials for freight trains, using the Lambda value as explored in the T1266 'Exploring the cost of using default ETCS braking values for freight' project. It will also assess the monetary benefits of using EF speeds by developing and applying a benefits analysis approach. If a set of EF speed differential can be proposed and justified technically and benefits wise, changes to relevant documentation and signalling will be proposed to enable industry to start using EF speeds.
The research has been split up into the following five Phases. It is expected that a Steering Group meeting will be held at the completion of each phase to review the outputs.
•Phase 1 - Line speed and signal distance suitability analysis for EF speed differentials
•Phase 2 - Infrastructure compatibility with EF speed differentials
•Phase 3 - Identifying a range of possible enhanced freight speeds
•Phase 4 - Benefits assessment of EF speed differentials
•Phase 5 - Operational considerations and next steps
Project T1323 Exploring opportunities to strengthen workforce reporting in the track worker population. RSSB seeks to procure research on factors affecting the effective reporting of differences between WAI and WAD from track workers. An improved understanding of these factors could inform decisions that reduce the risks arising from such differences.