Supply & Installation of an On-Street Disabled Parking Bay Monitoring System

The Council is seeking an experienced Contractor to provide on-street disabled parking bay monitoring to assist in the delivery of the SIMON (asSIsted Mobility for Older and impaired users) project. The SIMON project is a European Union (EU) funded project with the aim to improve the mobility for older citizens and impaired users. The project has 4 streams of interest around access management, assisted navigation, parking monitoring and blue badge enforcement. The Council’s involvement largely focuses around providing assisted navigation services by car to disabled bays and by public transport and this includes monitoring occupancy at the individual parking bays.

The Council has 63 on-street disabled parking bays within the borough and this project looks to deploy technology that will allow some or all of these bays to be monitored for occupancy, with the data used by other SIMON project partners to deliver the navigation services. In addition the occupancy data will be included in the Council’s open data service for 3rd parties to develop services.

This tender commits to purchasing a core system of 33 units spread across 10 locations as outlined in the specification documents. The tender also includes the provision for the supply and installation of up to a further 30 units in 7 additional locations, dependant on future funding.

Procurement will be for the supply and installation of the: (i) on-street detectors, (ii) wireless communications between the detectors and the traffic signal controller, (iii) connection of the access point to the traffic signal communications and power within the controller; (iv) provision of the necessary data standards for the detectors to enable Siemens (under separate contract to this tender) to integrate the occupancy data and fault status into Stratos

Additional information: The procurement exercise will be conducted in accordance with the information contained in the procurement documents. The contracting authority does not bind itself to enter into any contract as a result of the publication of this notice and will not, under any circumstances, have any liability for any costs any person responding to this notice incurs in any part of the tender process.

The services are to be procured under an open procedure and organisations interested in expressing an interest should download the procurement documents which are available on the Council's e-tendering system at: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/readingbc (Project Reference No. RBC 00000071 refers), and complete as instructed.

The Portal is free of charge - to register please follow the supplier registration guidance which is available on the Portal. Contractors wishing to be considered for this tendering opportunity must complete the tender documents and return them electronically via the Council's e-tendering portal. The deadline for return of the tender is Friday 15th July 2016 at 1200 hours.

Please note: you must register your interest via the Council's e-tendering portal if you intend to submit a tender. Interested parties must log onto the Council's e-tendering portal at: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/readingbc, to express an interest and download the procurement documents. All communications regarding this procurement exercise will be conducted through the Council's e-tendering portal including requests for clarifications or general enquiries. The procurement documents will be available for download up until the closing time and date for tender submissions, it is the organisation's responsibility to ensure that they download the documents in ample time to ensure that they can be completed and returned electronically, along with supporting documents, prior to the closing time and date stipulated. Before completing the tender, potential providers/suppliers should ensure that the e-mail address that has been used to register their organisation will be checked regularly as the Council's e-tendering system will generate automatic notifications to this e-mail address when there are updates, changes or messages sent relating to the project. Potential bidders should also check that their organisation's details are correct and kept up to date.

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Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No