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Rail Safety Standards Board (RSSB)

977407103 T1394 Determining tram-train platform arrangements  

R&DCPV 73110000
Value£80k
Deadline3 Oct 2025
Published3 Sept 2025
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 3 Sept 2025ClosedCloses 3 Oct 2025
Who to contact
Procurement Team
Procurement@RSSB.co.uk
+44 2031425651

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

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£80ktotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£561k

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The brief

The objective of this research is to define a set of standardised tram-train platform arrangements suitable for use in Great Britain.

These arrangements will help support safe, accessible, and cost-effective delivery of future tram-train schemes.

The project will: •Develop practical platform interface designs that accommodate tram-train vehicle characteristics, accessibility requirements, and operational constraints such as curvature, cant, and clearance for the largest rolling stock likely to pass the infrastructure (typically freight services). •Support consistency across future schemes by providing clear, annotated arrangements that reduce the need for bespoke infrastructure and improve design efficiency in early project stages. •Inform national standards development, by providing evidence-based recommendations for updating existing infrastructure guidance or supporting the case for a dedicated tram-train platform standard. •Engage relevant industry stakeholders to ensure the outputs are feasible, widely applicable, and aligned with safety, operational, and regulatory expectations.

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Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

These arrangements will help support safe, accessible

These arrangements will help support safe, accessible, and cost-effective delivery of future tram-train schemes.

02

Support consistency across future schemes by providing

Support consistency across future schemes by providing clear, annotated arrangements that reduce the need for bespoke infrastructure and improve design efficiency in early project stages.

03

Engage relevant industry stakeholders to ensure

Engage relevant industry stakeholders to ensure the outputs are feasible, widely applicable, and aligned with safety, operational, and regulatory expectations.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-059374
Stage
tender · Open
Source
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Buyer ref
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