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428833-2020 - Direct award preannouncement
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Summary
I.1.
Name and addresses
Official name: Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd
Official name: Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd
Postal address: 1 Eversholt Street
Town: London
NUTS code: UK United Kingdom
Postal code: NW1 2DN
Country: United Kingdom
E-mail: Shehroz.Latif@networkrail.co.uk
Telephone: +44 3457114141
Internet address(es):
Main address: www.networkrail.co.uk
I.6.
Main activity
Other activity: Signalling
Other activity: Signalling
II.1.1.
Title
TIRIS AzLM Monitoring System
II.1.2.
Main CPV code
63711100 Train monitoring services
63711100 Train monitoring services
II.1.3.
Type of contract
Services
Services
II.1.6.
Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots: no
This contract is divided into lots: no
II.1.7.
Total value of the procurement
Value excluding VAT: 989 000,00 GBP
Value excluding VAT: 989 000,00 GBP
II.2.3.
Place of performance
NUTS code: UK United Kingdom
V.2.1.
Date of contract award decision
04/09/2020
04/09/2020
V.2.3.
Name and address of the contractor/concessionaire
Official name: Thales Transport and Security Ltd
Official name: Thales Transport and Security Ltd
Postal address: RG2 6GF
Town: Reading
NUTS code: UK United Kingdom
Country: United Kingdom
The contractor/concessionaire will be an SME: no
V.2.4.
Information on value of the contract/lot/concession
Lowest offer: 989 000,00 GBP / Highest offer: 989 000,00 GBP taken into consideration
Lowest offer: 989 000,00 GBP / Highest offer: 989 000,00 GBP taken into consideration
V.2.5.
Information about subcontracting
The contract/lot/concession is likely to be subcontracted
The contract/lot/concession is likely to be subcontracted
Languages and formats
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Official language
428833-2020 - Direct award preannouncementSee the notice on TED website 
428833-2020
428833-2020 - Direct award preannouncementUnited Kingdom-London: Train monitoring services
OJ S 177/2020 11/09/2020
Voluntary ex ante transparency notice
Services
Legal Basis:
Directive 2014/25/EU
Section I: Contracting authority/entity
I.1.
Name and addresses
Official name: Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd
Official name: Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd
Postal address: 1 Eversholt Street
Town: London
NUTS code: UK United Kingdom
Postal code: NW1 2DN
Country: United Kingdom
E-mail: Shehroz.Latif@networkrail.co.uk
Telephone: +44 3457114141
Internet address(es):
Main address: www.networkrail.co.uk
I.6.
Main activity
Other activity: Signalling
Other activity: Signalling
Section II: Object
II.1.
Scope of the procurement
II.1.1.
Title
TIRIS AzLM Monitoring System
II.1.2.
Main CPV code
63711100 Train monitoring services
63711100 Train monitoring services
II.1.3.
Type of contract
Services
Services
II.1.4.
Short description
This VEAT is for an AzLM Monitoring Solution System.
This system helps analyse, process and report large amounts of data that are normally underutilised by rail operators and maintainers. The implementation of advanced data analytics allows maintainers and operators to go beyond traditional remote condition monitoring. Rail maintainers and operators would be able to program their expert knowledge into health assessment, diagnosis and prognostic models using these units, for which the supplier hold Intellectual Property as the original equipment manufacturer.
II.1.6.
Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots: no
This contract is divided into lots: no
II.1.7.
Total value of the procurement
Value excluding VAT: 989 000,00 GBP
Value excluding VAT: 989 000,00 GBP
II.2.
Description
II.2.3.
Place of performance
NUTS code: UK United Kingdom
II.2.4.
Description of the procurement
Network Rail currently access AzLM Data by sending teams trackside to collect and download data every 28 days. Procurement is to incorporate an automatic system which will download and analyse data instantly without the need for operatives to work trackside.
The automatic system will be sent at any time during the month and there would be remote access from mobile devices and laptops to provide near time support to the front-line staff. There would also be immediate access and download capability for Level 2 control and the full cloud support to collect all the data.
Key requirements of the system are as follows:
• provision of ACE (Axle Counter Evaluator) logs in ‘real-time’ (in practice this could be 30-secs to 1 min)
• provision of historic ACE data for a period of 6 months
• filter and search function on the data
• pattern driven analysis of logs to provide only relevant data (automatic filter of non-relevant messages such as 'ok DA' in sidings etc)
• graphical representation of the current system state (and historic states via a graphical playback facility, similar to Solid State Interlocking)
• web-based access to facilitate connection to ACE (which can be accessed from a secure web-based portal)
• multiple connections allowed simultaneously to allow multiple people to support fault diagnosis
• remote GDI (Graphical Display Interface) access
• iDevice compatibility (for trackside access by signalling technicians).
II.2.5.
Award criteria
II.2.11.
Information about options
Options: no
Options: no
II.2.13.
Information about European Union funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: no
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: no
II.2.14.
Additional information
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1.
Description
IV.1.1.
Type of procedure
Award of a contract without prior publication of a call for competition in the Official Journal of the European Union in the cases listed below
- The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
Explanation:
This procurement falls under the use of the negotiated procedure without prior call for competition.
50.—(1) Utilities may use the negotiated procedure without prior call for competition in the following case:
(c) where the works, supplies or services can be supplied only by a particular economic operator for any of the following reasons:
(iii) the protection of exclusive rights, including intellectual property rights, but only in the case of paragraphs (ii) and (iii), where no reasonable alternative or substitute exists and the absence of competition is not the result of an artificial narrowing down of the parameters of the procurement.
Thales is the original equipment manufacturer for the AzLM assets and can therefore ensure that remote diagnostics solution that interfaces directly with this system will remain supported throughout all future AzLM hardware and Software versions. No other supplier or product known to be able to do this, and Thales has not release licences to third parties.
In addition to this, the TIRIS system has the following features which mean that Thales, holding the Intellectual Property is able to provide the system:
1) The integration and system collaboration with GDI (a Thales diagnostic tool) — access to interface uses software that Thales own the IP for. Thales have modified this software to allow remote access via TIRIS;
2) Drift warning algorithm – an algorithm that filters defect messages and has been created using Thales’ knowledge of AzLM;
3) The AzLM polling agent;
(a) allows Thales to create a linear timeline of events rather than just a snapshot in time;
(b) this tool was created using an interface document owned by Thales and not in the public domain.
4) The Axle counter service in Azure – Created using expert knowledge and interpretation of the AzLM log files;
5) Reading the config file from AzLM and interpreting it into a meaningful schematic – receipt of the config file can only be done by sending specific commands to AzLM. These commands are not in the public domain.
IV.1.3.
Information about framework agreement
The procurement involves the establishment of a framework agreement
IV.1.8.
Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: no
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: no
IV.2.
Administrative information
Section V: Award of contract/concession
V.2.
Award of contract/concession
V.2.1.
Date of contract award decision
04/09/2020
04/09/2020
V.2.2.
Information about tenders
The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators: no
V.2.3.
Name and address of the contractor/concessionaire
Official name: Thales Transport and Security Ltd
Official name: Thales Transport and Security Ltd
Postal address: RG2 6GF
Town: Reading
NUTS code: UK United Kingdom
Country: United Kingdom
The contractor/concessionaire will be an SME: noV.2.4.
Information on value of the contract/lot/concession
Lowest offer: 989 000,00 GBP / Highest offer: 989 000,00 GBP taken into consideration
Lowest offer: 989 000,00 GBP / Highest offer: 989 000,00 GBP taken into consideration
V.2.5.
Information about subcontracting
The contract/lot/concession is likely to be subcontracted
The contract/lot/concession is likely to be subcontracted
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.3.
Additional information
VI.4.
Procedures for review
VI.4.1.
Review body
Official name: The High Court
Official name: The High Court
Town: London
Country: United Kingdom
VI.5.
Date of dispatch of this notice
08/09/2020
08/09/2020

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