TfL 95407 RFLI - Signalling Competency Assessment for Rail for London Infrastructure- Maintenance Assessment

Rail for London Infrastructure (RFLI), a Transport for London (TfL) subsidiary company, will take over responsibility for the Safety, Operations, Maintenance and Renewal of the Crossrail Central Operating Section (CCOS) that runs mostly in tunnels between Paddington, Stratford and Abbey Wood. RFLI staff will need to be competent and have an approved Safety Management System (SMS) necessary to become the Infrastructure Manager for the CCOS.

RFLI must train, assess and maintain the competence of its staff and demonstrate such to gain the authority to operate. RFLI wishes to engage a Service Provider to provide Assessors who can conduct signalling competency assessment of RFLI staff.

The Assessments will be against RFLI Competence Standards for Signal Engineering. The purpose of the Assessment is to ensure that RFLI staff have the skills, knowledge and behaviours that can be demonstrated with evidence gathered to be deemed competent and awarded a licence/ permit/ authority to work.

Service Provider can subcontract the technical expert knowledge and form an assessor panel. The contract will be for 2 years with an option to extend for a further 1 year.

Full details will be provided in the scope of specification to those providers invited to compete. The competition will be undertaken on TfL e-tendering portal: https://procontract.due-north.com Invitations to tender will be issued on the e-tendering platform to those Suppliers who express an interest by the date stated below.

Timeline Expression of Interest - Supplier response: Thursday 22nd October 2020 ITT issue (via ProContract) w/c Monday 26th October 2020 ITT return w/c Monday 16th November 2020 Contract Award w/c Monday 21st December 2020 The above dates are for indicative purposes only and may be subject to change. If you are interested in being considered for this work please respond to this expression of interest by Thursday 22nd October 2020.