Multi-Purpose Vehicle (MPV) Asset Renewal

Translink wishes to procure a solution to carry out safety critical overhauls on the Main Traction Unit engine, bogies, and pneumatic systems on the Multi-Purpose Vehicle. The Windhoff Multi-Purpose Vehicle (MPV) entered service in 2017. The double ended vehicle is designed primarily to apply sandite and use high pressure water jets on the rail to improve adhesion. However, the design is modular, allowing the swapping of equipment to undertake other work, including weed spraying. To allow the MPV to operate in a safe and efficient manner, aging components require replacing at scheduled intervals as per the manufacturer’s recommendation. This will ensure maintenance costs are kept low, reliability and availability of the vehicle remains high, and the operational life of the vehicle will be met. To that end Translink wishes to undertake premarket engagement consultations with interested suppliers conducted via Microsoft Teams. If you are an interested, please confirm in writing to Robin Winsby at robin.winsby@translink.co.uk by close of business Friday 01 November 2024. Additional information: Suppliers registering their interest in participating in this exercise should note that:. 1. This Notice is to initiate a market engagement and information gathering exercise and does not indicate the start of a procurement exercise. It is instead intended to act as an informal market research document providing a brief synopsis of Translink’s future requirements. This document is not intended to provide a definitive list of requirements.. 2. We intend to invite interested suppliers to present to a range of Translink personnel and discuss asset renewal of the MPV what each can offer.. 3. This document is not a tender specification nor request for quotation. Translink is merely investigating market opportunities at this stage without entering into any contractual or financial commitments.. 4. Please note, progress in the project will be subject to the availability and timing of funding. If this requirement 5 / 8 EN Standard form 4 - Periodic indicative notice – utilities is given financial approval, it will be tendered under the Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016. Any documents, discussions, presentations, demonstrations, or clarifications submitted for this Market Research will not be considered as any part of the tender exercise. If Translink does decide to proceed with a competitive tender process, a separate detailed tender specification document will be produced as part of that process.. 5. Nothing in this advertisement or any other documents or information provided by Translink or any of its advisers or agents is to be construed as implying a commitment by Translink to place any Contract, now or in the future with any participating supplier in respect of the requirement under consideration.. 6. Translink takes no responsibility for any actions or decisions taken, costs incurred, or commitments made by interested parties in responding to this notice or by being involved in any subsequent discussions in this market engagement and information gathering exercise.. 7. At this stage it is not possible to give an accurate timeframe for this requirement..