Valley Rail Partnership No.1 LLP, for the manufacture, supply, maintenance and leasing of 7 x 3-car and 17 x 4-car FLIRT Tri-Mode units (the "Tri-Mode Units")

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                    "description": "Due to Covid-19 restrictions / related matters, TfWRL replaced KA in February 2021 under s.30 of the Railways Act 1993. TfWRL and its parent TfW are contracting authorities and also utilities in relation to the rail network. Due to Welsh Government's and TfW's decision to retain in the public sector maintenance workers who had transferred from KA to TfWRL under TUPE, changes were negotiated to the maintenance agreements associated with the Tri-Mode Units so that the agreements become Technical Support and Spares Supply Agreements (TSSSAs) instead of Train Services Agreements (TSAs), with TfWRL taking over the role of the maintainer of the Tri-Mode Units. TfWRL will replace SRS UK as maintainer, with SRS UK taking on a technical support and spares supply role. As a result of the change in maintainer of the Stadler Fleets, some knock-on amendments to the Manufacture and Supply Agreements (MSAs) are also required, to bring them in line with the change in maintenance arrangements. As a consequence of these changes, the leasing arrangements have been extended in order to deal with the impact on the residual value risk for the Owner of the Tri-Mode Units of moving to a TSSSA maintenance arrangement, protecting the exclusive rights of the Owner as the owner of the Stadler Fleets. A move from TSAs to TSSSAs exposes the Owner to additional risks, in particular re: its ability to re-lease the Tri-Mode Units at the end of the period of the undertaking under s.54 of the Railways Act 1993 provided by Welsh Government, being 31 December 2048. In order to protect the Owner against these additional risks and to protect the exclusive rights of the Owner as the owner of the Stadler Fleets, the s.54 undertakings are to be extended for a further 10 years, to 2058. Further, as Stadler owns the Intellectual Property in the Tri-Mode Units, as the original supplier of the Tri-Mode Units, the parties jointly agree that in order to protect the exclusive rights of Stadler, Stadler will provide the revised TSSSA services (and assist TfW in providing the revised maintenance arrangements). It would not be practically possible from an IP ownership perspective nor a technical perspective for anyone other than Stadler to perform the strategic TSSSA service and role. TfW/TfWRL relies on R.72(1)(c) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (PCR) / R.88(1)(c) of the Utilities Contracts Regulations (UCR) 2016 as set out below. Further or in the alternative, TfW/TfWRL relies on R.72(1) (b) of PCR / R.88(1)(b) of UCR on the grounds that it would not be technically possible for another supplier to provide the revised arrangements which have become necessary in respect of the Tri-Mode Units without serious inconvenience or duplication of cost. This is given Stadler's technical knowledge and experience with the Tri-Mode Units, as the original supplier of the Tri-Mode Units, and the fact that the Owner owns and controls the Tri-Mode Unit fleet. Further or in the further alternative, TfW/TfWRL relies on R.32(2)(b)(ii) and/or (iii) PCR / R.50(1)(c)(ii) and/or (iii) UCR (competition is absent for technical reasons and/or protection of exclusive rights) because only the Owners of the Tri-Mode Units can provide the revised lease arrangements detailed above (as the owner of the Tri-Mode Unit fleet) and Stadler's knowledge and experience of the Tri-Mode Units and ownership of IP rights in terms of being able to provide the technical support and spares supply required by these TSSSA maintenance arrangements. Given the additional risks to which the Owner is exposed, the conditions set out above play an important role in the feasibility of the move from a TSA to a TSSSA.",
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