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Type of document: Contract Notice
Country: United Kingdom

1. Title: PROCUREMENT FOR DESIGNATED ROLES (PSC) RAM, SS, INTEROPERABILITY, SECURITY AND OTHER SERVICES – ADDENDUM NOTICE
2. Awarding Authority: Ferrovial BAM Rail System, GB. Web:
3. Contract type: Service contract
4. Description: As part of the track system packages for each lot, the awarding authority will be procuring designated professional roles. The Services Package A shall consist of provision of designated professionals to perform, within the Contractor’s Design Management team, the following Designated professional Role(s) under the Main Contract:
Contractor’s RAM Manager
Contractor’s System Safety Engineer
Contractor’s Interoperability point of contact
Contractor’s Cyber Security Manager
Contractor’s Fire Manager
Potential mobilization start (soft start) in September/October 2025 – then estimated full start Febuary 2026
5. CPV Code(s): 71621000, 71311300, 79411000, 72221000, 98110000, 90721000, 71318000, 71311000, 79418000, 79000000, 71530000, 71600000, 79411100, 71317200, 71317000, 71311200, 71317210, 71310000, 98112000, 79417000, 72224000, 79400000, 79410000, 80330000, 73000000, 73200000
6. NUTS code(s): UKI, UKI3, UKI31, UKG24, UKG31, UKG13
7. Main site or location of works, main place of delivery or main place of performance: Delivery point: In person at Birmingham & London HS2 offices, with remote working
north from Euston Station in London to a junction with the West Coast Main Line at Handsacre in Staffordshire, with a spur from Water Orton in Warwickshire to a terminus at Birmingham Curzon Street
8. Reference attributed by awarding authority: Supply chain ID: 394401-FBRS HS2 Railway Systems Track Systems for Phase One
9. Estimated value of requirement: Estimated contract value (GBP) I: GBP 500k to 1m
10. CompeteFor response deadline 21.7.2025 (16:34).
11. Address to which they must be sent: Note: This is a CompeteFor opportunity. Opportunities may be with both public and private sector businesses. To apply, please click the following link to register on the CompeteFor portal Web:
12. Other information: Opportunity Method: Contract Opportunity
Opportunity Status: Open
Opportunity Type: Private Sector
Notice Type: Adden
Nature of Opportunity: Services
About the buyer’s selection process:
Industry standard selection process taking into account cost/experience/capability/robustness/delivery
About the buyer:
Ferrovial BAM Rail Systems is a JV Contractor on the HS2 Project, delivering the Track System and associated works under Phase One. The Phase One route comprises approximately 220 km of predominantly double-track high-speed railway running north from Euston Station in London to a junction with the West Coast Main Line at Handsacre in Staffordshire, with a spur from Water Orton in Warwickshire to a terminus at Birmingham Curzon Street. Phase One includes intermediate stations at Old Oak Common in London and Birmingham Interchange and a grade-separated junction (Delta Junction) to the east of Birmingham, with connections to facilitate the eastern leg of HS2 (Phase 2b).
Details of specialist staff required (if any): For each Designated Role, the requirements under WI0300 shall be met by the proposed individual, and adequate competency shall be demonstrated by means of a competency assessment, prior to the start of provision of the Services
Estimated tender close date: 15/08/2025
Estimated contract award date: 01/09/2025
Estimated contract start date: 07/09/2025
Estimated contract end date: 30/09/2027
Is SME: No
Is VCO: No
Is framework agreement: No
Additional information for bidders Include any special notes for bidders
Lead the management, oversight of designers’ delivery on the following:
Requirements – ensure there are suitable plans/procedures/processes are in place to evidence compliance with the requirements of the Contract and provision of required assurance under the Contract, (evidence normally provided by others, for example the Designers) and review of evidence supplied by the others (e.g. the Designers)
Manage, for these elements of scope, the design and assurance delivery in line with the programme
Support on Departures including discussions with Designers, Contractor’s staff, and HS2 or others
Plans & processes
Draft – liaising as required with the Designers, the Contractor’s staff, HS2 and/or others – the following plans & processes; seek approval by HS2; address and reach resolution of any comments (including resubmissions) until acceptance by HS2
RAM Plan and Programme
Contractor’s System Safety Management Plan
Interoperability Management Plan
Review the Physical Security Plan
RAM Demonstration Plan
Interface Management Plan – input on the Rail Systems safety part
RAM Reliability Growth Plan
Review of EMC Control Plan and E&B Execution Plan
Support with the definition of the processes, in liaison with Contractor’s Information Management Team, Design Management Team to support supply of evidence of assurance to HS2
Review and manage design deliverables
Review associated design deliverables & approval for submission to HS2, including assessment of integration within Contractor’s design, address comments; for:
Design deliverables
Specifications
Associated assurance deliverables, evidence of assurance,
Acceptance for submission to HS2. Manage addressing and closing out any associated comments from HS2 and others (including Assessment Body (AsBO))
Support the process of Departures, and contribute to the Departures Register
Assumptions: identify and set, ensure recording, in coordination with Designers and Contractor’s Design Management team. Manage discussions and agreement with Designers and HS2 and close out of Assumptions
Coordination and liaison with other parties, interfaces:
Participate or lead on IDCs, IDRs or other Review sessions
Liaise with HS2, Designer’s SMEs, Assessment Body (AsBO), suppliers/subcontractors and others on behalf of the Contractor
Chair or support/participate in meetings for interfaces with HS2, RSCs, MWCCs or other parties
Establish, own and maintain/update as needed ICDs to manage interfaces with HS2, other RSCs, MWCCs, to ensure integration within Contractor’s design, of other systems and/or design by Others /Employer’s Design
Manage other systems inputs
Miscellaneous
Coordinate with other design disciplines within design delivery, with interface management team, technical assurance team and information management team as required for the design delivery
Support to manage risk and change, in liaison with Contractor’s Design Management and Commercial teams, also on procurement processes
Identify and propose/manage optimization ideas in respect of the Scope of the Contract, for each design discipline
Coordination with other Contractor’s teams
Support to manage the design programme activities
Support on reporting
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