United Kingdom-Belfast: Ticket-issuing machines

Type of document: Contract Awards
Country: United Kingdom
OJEU Ref: (2016/S 235-429300/EN)
Nature of contract: Supply contract
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
Regulation of procurement: EU – with participation by GPA countries
Type of bid required: Not applicable

Contract award notice
Supplies
Directive 2004/17/EC
Section I: Contracting authority/entity
I.1) Name addresses and contact point(s):
Translink
3 Milewater Road
Belfast
Postal code: BT3 9BG
United Kingdom
For the attention of: Mark Osmer
Phone: +44 2890354028
Email: mark.osmer@translink.co.uk
Internet Address(es):
General address of the contracting authority: www.translink.co.uk
Electronic access to information:
Address of the buyer profile:
Electronic submission of tenders and requests to participate:
I.2) Main activity:
Railway services, Urban railway, tramway, trolleybus and bus services
I.3) Contract award on behalf of other contracting authorities/entities:
The contracting entity is purchasing on behalf of other contracting entities: no
Section II: Object of the contract
II.1) Description
II.1.1) Title attributed to the contract:
Ticketing System Replacement Project.
II.1.2) Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance:
Supplies
Main site or location of works, place of delivery or of performance: Northern Ireland.
Nuts code: UKN0
II.1.3) Information about a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system (DPS):
II.1.4) Short description of the contract or purchase(s):
Translink is the brand name for the public transport group of operating companies of Ulsterbus, Northern Ireland Railways and Citybus, which trades under the brand name Metro. Translink operate the majority of bus and rail services in Northern Ireland, with approximately 80 000 000 journeys made on Translink services every year by the 1 760 000 population of Northern Ireland.
Translink’s ticketing system processes 56 million transactions every year, collects over 82 % of Translink’s total annual revenue and accounts for 79 500 000 annual bus and rail passenger journeys (2013/14 financial year).
Translink now have a requirement for electronic ticketing system hardware, software, back office systems, customer payment interfaces and ongoing system support. This procurement will also ensure that the system is capable of integrating ticketing hardware and software from other non-Translink operators within the Translink ticketing system.

II.1.5) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV):
30144200,
II.1.6) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA):
The contract is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA): YES
II.2) Total final value of contract(s):
II.2.1) Total final value of contract(s):

Section IV: Procedure
IV.1) Type of procedure
IV.1.1) Type of procedure:
Negotiated with a call for competition
IV.2) Award criteria
IV.2.1) Award criteria:
The most economically advantageous tender
MOST_ECONOMICALLY_TENDER
IV.2.2) Information about electronic auction:
An electronic auction has been used: No
IV.3) Administrative information:
IV.3.1) File reference number attributed by the contracting authority
007/0162/14
IV.3.2) Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract:
CONTRACT_NOTICE
Notice number in the OJEU:
2015/S 025-042289 of 05.02.2015

Section V: Award of contract
V.1)Award and contract value:
Contract No: 1 Lot No: 1Lot title: Ticketing System Replacement Project
V.1.1)Date of contract award decision:
16.08.2016
V.1.2) Information about offers:
Number of offers received: 2
Number of offers received by electronic means: 2
V.1.3) Name and address of economic operator in favour of whom the contract award decision has been taken:
Parkeon Transit Ltd
10 Willis Way
Poole
BH15 3SS
United Kingdom
E-mail: irhoward@parkeon.com,
Phone: +44 1202339339
V.1.5) Information about subcontracting:

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:
Let’s work together:
Follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/TranslinkB2B for opportunites worth 30 000 GBP or more.
Check out our website at www.translink.co.uk/Corporate/Procurement/
Participate in tenders at
For assistance using eTendersNI and registering your Organisation please contact the helpdesk whose number is located on the eTendersNI contact us page.
Note: do not leave completing your PQQ/ITT response until the last minute, late responses shall be rejected. The contracting authority reserves the right not to award any contract as a result of this competition.
About the Translink Group:
Throughout the documentation, both ‘Translink’ and ‘Group’ refer to the same corporate entities. Both shall be taken to comprise the Northern Ireland Transport Holding Company (NITHC) in addition to its main operating subsidiaries Citybus Ltd, Northern Ireland Railways Company Ltd and Ulsterbus Ltd.

VI.3) Procedures for appeal
The Translink Group 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).
VI.4) Date of dispatch of this notice:
02.12.2016