Prior information notice

Date of publication Simap: 30.03.2021

1. Contracting authority

1.1 Official name and address of the contracting authority

Contracting authority/Authority of assignment: SBB AG Purchasing infrastructure
Procurement authority/Organizer: SBB AG
Purchasing infrastructure,  attn Tanja Lukaszewski, Hilfikerstrasse 3,  3000  Bern 65,  Switzerland,  E-mail:  tanja.lukaszewski@sbb.ch

1.2 Deadline for submitting the offer

Date :   23.04.2021, Specific deadlines and formal requirements:  With this RFI, all interested providers of corresponding security monitoring solutions are invited to submit information about their services as well as realistic target prices.
This document is an RFI and not an invitation to tender.
Offers are not welcome and will not be considered.
Participation and submission of the completed RFI questionnaire is voluntary and nonbinding.

1.3 Type of contracting authority

Decentralized federal administration - public-legal organizations of the federation and other supporting organisations assuming federal tasks

1.4 Type of procedure

Open procedure

1.5 Type of order

Not specified

1.6 Scope of international treaties

Not specified

2. Objects of procurement

2.1 Project title of the acquisition

Request for Information RFI: Security Monitoring Rail - Safety Systems

2.3 Common Procurement Vocabulary

CPV:	35120000 - Surveillance and security systems and devices,
	72212730 - Security software development services,
	72212140 - Railway traffic control software development services

2.4 Subject and scope of the contract

SBB is planning to procure a dedicated Security Monitoring solution for monitoring signalling applications via the data network used.

With this RFI, SBB would like to obtain an overview of which providers offer which services in the area of security monitoring specifically for the area of security installations. With this Request for Information (RFI), SBB carries out a corresponding market analysis.
With this RFI, all interested providers of corresponding security monitoring solutions are invited to submit information about their services as well as realistic target prices.

2.5 Location of the procurement

Bern

2.6 Division into lots?

No

2.10 Implementation date

Start 26.03.2021 and finish 26.04.2021

Remarks: The Implementation Date is for the RFI.

A public tender for the procurement of an appropriate product follows. (probably 4th Quarter 2021)

The procedural language of the public tender will be German.

3. Conditions

3.1 General conditions of participation

Participating providers shall provide their responses by the prescribed deadline. Participation and submission of the completed RFI questionnaire is voluntary and non-binding. Non-participation in this RFI does not lead to exclusion from a possible later tender. Answering the RFI does not give the information provider any advantage for a possible later tender. Participation in this RFI does not lead to a preliminary referral with regard to a possible later call for tenders.

The relevant findings of the market survey will be announced with the subsequent call for tenders, if any.

3.5 Consortium of bidders

permitted

3.6 Subcontractor

permitted

3.10 Supplying source of the prior information notice documentation

at www.simap.ch
Prior information notice documentation is available from: 30.03.2021  until  26.04.2021
Language of the prior information notice documentation: English

3.11 Conduct of dialogue

No

4.6 Additional information

If you have any questions about the RFI, please contact the person named in section 1.1.

The answers (additions, corrections and changes) resulting from the questions asked on the RFI will be made available to all participating companies. Therefore, when formulating your question, please note that the questions and answers asked will be made available anonymously to all participating companies.