Hand Held Ticketing Equipment - Market Research only
Periodic indicative notice - utilities
Supplies
This notice is a call for competition: no
This notice aims at reducing time-limits for receipt of tenders: yes
Section I: Contracting entity
I.1)Name, addresses and contact point(s)
Translink
3 Milewater Road
For the attention of: Marcia Clarke
BT3 9BG Belfast
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 2890354076
E-mail:
I.2)Main activity
Railway services
Urban railway, tramway, trolleybus or bus services
Urban railway, tramway, trolleybus or bus services
Section II: Object of the contract
II.1)Title attributed to the contract by the contracting entity:
Hand Held Ticketing Equipment - Market Research only
II.2)Type of contract
Supplies
II.3)Short description of the contract or purchase(s):
Translink's current ticketing equipment was first implemented in 2001 and is therefore nearing the end of its useful life with components becoming obsolete. Translink's existing suite of equipment includes approximately 1,800 on-bus (module-based) ticket machines, 150 office/shop-based ticket machines, 280 portable rail hand-held ticket machines, 30 on-platform smartcard validators along with a local and centralised reporting system spread across 55 bus and rail locations within Northern Ireland.
Translink have already appointed External Technical Advisors, MVA Consultancy, to deliver a Feasibility Study Report outlining the options, costs and benefits of a modern Translink ticketing system
In order to specifically and satisfactorily inform the options within the Feasibility Study report, MVA and Translink are formally engaging with many external stakeholders.
As part of this engagement process, we wish to hold initial discussions (without commitment) with ticketing equipment/system suppliers to establish the range of goods and services currently available in this marketplace.
We therefore have pleasure in inviting your company to deliver a short presentation and hold discussions with Translink on the equipment, systems and technology you currently have in place and which you expect to have on offer in 2016.
Venue Translink Head Office, 3 Milewater Road, Belfast, BT3 9BG
Dates 22nd and 23.1.2014.
Times 2 hour slot for each supplier (allocated on a first come, first served basis)
Translink have already appointed External Technical Advisors, MVA Consultancy, to deliver a Feasibility Study Report outlining the options, costs and benefits of a modern Translink ticketing system
In order to specifically and satisfactorily inform the options within the Feasibility Study report, MVA and Translink are formally engaging with many external stakeholders.
As part of this engagement process, we wish to hold initial discussions (without commitment) with ticketing equipment/system suppliers to establish the range of goods and services currently available in this marketplace.
We therefore have pleasure in inviting your company to deliver a short presentation and hold discussions with Translink on the equipment, systems and technology you currently have in place and which you expect to have on offer in 2016.
Venue Translink Head Office, 3 Milewater Road, Belfast, BT3 9BG
Dates 22nd and 23.1.2014.
Times 2 hour slot for each supplier (allocated on a first come, first served basis)
Interested suppliers are asked to e-mail their contact details to - Procurement Project Advisor, Marcia Clarke at by 15:00 hrs 13.1.2014.
Please refer to Document - Handheld Ticketing Equipment - Market Research on our website - www.translink.co.uk/tenders - for further details.
II.4)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
30144200, 30123100
II.5)Scheduled date for start of award procedures and duration of the contract
II.6)Estimated cost and main terms of financing
II.6.1)Initial estimated cost
II.6.2)Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions governing them:
II.7)Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
II.8)Additional information:
Section IV: Procedure and administrative information
IV.1)File reference number attributed by the contracting entity:
Handheld Ticketing Equipment - Market Research
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.1)Information about European Union funds
The contract is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: no
VI.2)Additional information:
Please refer to document Handheld Ticketing Machines on our website www.translink.co.uk/tenders - for further information.
Interested suppliers are asked to e-mail their contact details to -Procurement Project Advisor, Marcia Clarke at by 15:00 hrs 13.1.2014
Please note - E-mails will not be accessed between 19th December and 1.1.2014.VI.3)Estimated total value of supplies or services contract(s)
VI.4)Date of dispatch of this notice:
16.12.2013
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Periodic indicative notice being a call for competition or aiming at reducing time-limits for the receipt of tenders
Section II: Object of the contract
II.1)Description
II.1.1)Title attributed to the contract by the contracting entity:
Handheld Ticketing Equipment - Market Research.
II.1.2)Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance
Supplies
Purchase
Main place of performance: Northern Ireland.
Purchase
Main place of performance: Northern Ireland.
NUTS code UKN0
II.1.3)Information about a public contract, a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system (DPS)
The notice involves a public contract
II.1.4)Information on framework agreement
II.1.5)Lots
II.2)Quantity or scope of the contract
II.2.1)Total quantity or scope:
Translink's current ticketing equipment was first implemented in 2001 and is therefore nearing the end of its useful life with components becoming obsolete. Translink's existing suite of equipment includes approximately 1,800 on-bus (module-based) ticket machines, 150 office/shop-based ticket machines, 280 portable rail hand-held ticket machines, 30 on-platform smartcard validators along with a local and centralised reporting system spread across 55 bus and rail locations within Northern Ireland.
Translink have already appointed External Technical Advisors, MVA Consultancy, to deliver a Feasibility Study Report outlining the options, costs and benefits of a modern Translink ticketing system
Translink have already appointed External Technical Advisors, MVA Consultancy, to deliver a Feasibility Study Report outlining the options, costs and benefits of a modern Translink ticketing system
Please see document Handheld Ticketing Equipment - Market Research - for more details. (Available on our website www.translink.co.uk/tenders )
II.2.2)Information about options
II.2.3)Information about renewals
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
III.1)Conditions relating to the contract
III.1.1)Deposits and guarantees required:
III.1.2)Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded:
III.1.3)Other particular conditions:
III.2)Conditions for participation
III.2.1)Personal situation of economic operators, including requirements relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers
III.2.2)Economic and financial ability
III.2.3)Technical capacity
III.2.4)Information about reserved contracts
III.3)Conditions specific to services contracts
III.3.1)Information about a particular profession
Execution of the service is reserved to a particular profession: no
III.3.2)Staff responsible for the execution of the service
Legal persons should indicate the names and professional qualifications of the staff responsible for the execution of the service: no
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1)Type of procedure
IV.1.1)Type of procedure
Negotiated
IV.2)Award criteria
IV.2.1)Award criteria
The most economically advantageous tender in terms of the criteria stated in the specifications, in the invitation to confirm interest or in the invitation to tender or to negotiate
IV.2.2)Information about electronic auction
An electronic auction will be used: no
IV.3)Administrative information
IV.3.1)Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents
IV.3.2)Time-limit for receipt of expressions of interest:
IV.3.3)Time-limit for receipt of applications for an invitation to tender or to negotiate:
13.1.2014 - 15:00
IV.3.4)Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be drawn up
English.
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.1)Information about recurrence
VI.2)Additional information:
Interested operators must inform the contracting entity that they are interested in the contract(s). The contract(s) will be let without subsequent publication of a call for competition Interested suppliers are asked to e-mail their contact details to -
Procurement Project Advisor, Marcia Clarke at by 15:00 hrs 13.1.2014
Please access document Handheld Ticketing Equipment - Market Research for further information (available on our website www.translink.co.uk/tenders ).
Please note - e-mails will not be accessed during the period 19th December to 1.1.2014 (Inc).VI.3)Procedures for appeal
VI.3.1)Body responsible for appeal procedures
VI.3.2)Lodging of appeals
Precise information on deadline(s) for lodging appeals: Translink will incorporate a standstill period at the point information on the award of the contract is communicated to tenderers. That notification will provide full information on the award decision. The standstill period, which will be for a minimum of 10 calendar days, provides time for unsuccessful tenderers to challenge the award decision before the contract is entered into.
The Utilities Contracts Regulations 2006 provide for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by a breach of the rules to take action in the High Court (England, Wales and Northern Ireland).
The Utilities Contracts Regulations 2006 provide for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by a breach of the rules to take action in the High Court (England, Wales and Northern Ireland).
VI.3.3)Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained
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