DRD — Data Collection Managed Services Framework.

Descriptions

The Department or Regional Development in Northern Ireland plans to establish a transportation planning and analysis function in order to take the lead in transportation policy and strategy development and to help ensure effective decision making in relation to transportation schemes and transportation planning generally. The Department is therefore building an in-house team with a technical capability to undertake analyses and to manage the development of a multi-modal modelling system and specialist transportation studies. The Department has already established a Framework Agreement to cover transport modelling and a range of transport planning issues.This tendering process will be used to establish a Framework of contractors to provide data collection services.Tender Lots and Framework.The range of services will be tendered in 3 separate Lots, one for each category of work, classified broadly as follows:— Lot 1 — household interviews including travel diaries;— Lot 2 — origin destination interviews, public transport or highway;— Lot 3 — boarding and alighting counts.Using this tender, the Department will select and appoint up to a maximum of 5 contractors for each Lot. Thereafter, as specific work packages are identified, secondary competitions will be held within the relevant Lot to confirm the contractor with the most economically advantageous proposal. Tenderers may tender for 1 or all Lots.The Department gives no commitment to commission work packages under each or any of the Lots during the 3 year period. However, the Department's current best estimate for expenditure is shown in Table 1.Table 1: Current Best Estimate for Expenditure on Managed Services.Lot 1 Lot 2 Lot 3 TotalTo Mar 15 GBP 150k GBP 175k GBP 75 GBP 400kApril 15 — Mar 16 GBP 100k GBP 50k GBP 150kApril 16 — Mar 17 GBP 50k GBP 50k GBP 100kTotal to Mar 17 GBP 150k GBP 325k GBP 175k GBP 650k