Tramway in Odense - Technical consulting services
For the purpose of the future establishment of a tramway in Odense, Odense Municipality now invites tenders for the technical consulting services for stage 1 by way of a negotiated tender procedure.
In 2010-2011, Odense Municipality completed an extensive pilot study regarding the establishment of a tramway in Odense, and this study caused the Odense Council to designate stage 1 of the project and initiate:
— completion of an environmental impact assessment (EIA),
— drafting of a coherent strategy for urban densification and transformation in the tramway corridor,
— preparations for tender procedure, draft planning basis etc.
The current stage – the EIA stage – will be completed by Odense Municipality in cooperation with the Danish Ministry of Transport over the next two years. When the EIA report has been approved, the first stage of the tramway line is planned to be established by a joint municipal/governmental construction company. The tendered consulting services are intended to be pursued by the construction company, and therefore the contracts will include provisions governing such transfer to the construction company.
The first stage of the tramway line has been determined as the line from Tarup via Bolbro to the town centre and the central railway station of Odense (Odense Banegård Center) extending further into a development area including the University of Southern Denmark (Syddansk Universitet) and Hjallese Station linking to the railway line to Svendborg.
The tramway will pass through an urban development area in the centre of Odense and through a special coordination area including a new university hospital, the New OUH.
On the basis of preparatory work and studies made into light rail and tramway systems elsewhere in Europe, and considering the fact that the alignment is to be located in a densely built-up urban area, there is a definite aim for attractive design while at the same time functionality is also seen as a crucial feature - a mix of "German" function and "French" design features could likely be seen as kind of an ideal.
Consequently, the tramway should become a well-integrated part of the public realm and interact positively with all other users of the corridor, be it pedestrians and cyclists or cars and delivery traffic.
The project must provide for a coherent solution servicing and catering for destinations, technology, rules, safety, choice of materials etc.
Based on the technical specifications, the tramway must be designed so that masts, contact wires, platforms and signs are properly coordinated with the existing urban spaces to ensure that the tramway appears as a natural and integrative element of the surrounding urban spaces.
Odense Municipality has decided to appoint the following parties for the handling of planning and management tasks and the provision of technical consulting services, including the drafting of the EIA report:
— one overall client consultant,
— one overall technical consultant initially to be in charge of the EIA report,
— one consultant to assist with design and visualisation tasks in relation to the EIA report.
The said consulting services will be tendered as three independent tenders, but it will be ensured that the client consultancy services and the overall technical consulting services are handled in two parallel tender procedures. As specified above, this tender procedure initially comprises the overall technical consulting services.
The overall technical consulting services initially comprise the drafting of the EIA report which itself consists of the following main technical services:
— environmental assessment and area conditions (part of this tender procedure),
— plant engineering sketch project comprising the tramway, rail technology and safety (part of this tender procedure),
— design and visualisations (to be tendered separately).
Odense Municipality has initiated the first public stage comprising the drafting of a debate folder and whitepaper including public hearing phases and political approvals.
This work is expected to be finalised when the contract is awarded.
Odense Municipality will prepare traffic model calculations which may form part of the work on drafting the tenders, including assessments of impacts on areas and neighbours, noise and emissions.
The requested technical consulting services at the EIA report level are to form the basis for the main technical decisions to influence or to be made in the future project stages and therefore the drafting of the EIA report requires specific technical competencies in relation to tramway, rail technology and safety etc. The technical consultant under the EIA report is expected, as part of this tender procedure, to also participate in later project phases in the detailed design phase and within such in the establishing of the overall framework for traffic and utilities relocations (preparatory works for tramway track) and the drafting of project basis for the contract to be executed with the turnkey supplier of a tramway comprising design, build, operate and maintain stages.
Consequently, the technical consultant must posses all technical competencies required for the projecting of light rail and tramway infrastructure.
The overall technical consultant is thus to be in charge of all general functions, design of the tramway and must be in charge of construction management and technical supervision as full-service consultancy services. The overall technical consultant must also be in charge of the process technical services necessary to ensure compliance with the standards fixed for project quality, time schedule, construction budget, and the subsequent operation. The overall technical consultant must also assist Odense Municipality in the relationship with public authorities, including the Danish Ministry of Transport and the Danish Transport Authority.
The EIA report and the relating strategic environmental assessment must predict the project's or the plan's environmental impacts and contribute to ensuring a timely and environmentally friendly planning and design of the project, including providing comparisons between various alternatives, if relevant. Moreover, the object of the EIA report is to provide a basis for decision-making to Odense Municipality and the public authorities involved and to include the general public in the decision-making process.
The environmental studies to be performed must comprise the collection of data, mapping, supplementary field studies, consequential assessments and proposals for preventive measures and monitoring schemes in all relevant respects.
The studies must be performed integratedly with the progression of the technical project, taking due account of inputs provided by the consultant for design and visualisations.
The complexity of the project, however, makes it difficult – at the time of tendering the project and executing the contract - to establish the final scope of the consultancy services to be rendered. Therefore the overall consultancy services will be tendered as a flexible contract making it possible for Odense Municipality to currently adapt the consultancy services to the project and its progression. As for the contract to be executed, a contract will be entered into concerning the drafting of the EIA report whereas the subsequent technical consultancy services will be tendered as an option, by way of one or more separate assignments, to the technical consultancy agreement which will thus constitute the framework for the subsequent technical consultancy services.
Further information on the project may be obtained on the website
www.odense.dk/letbane.
Deadline
Fristen for modtagelse af bud var på 2011-10-18.
Indkøbet blev offentliggjort på 2011-09-06.
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