Award, Contract

DfT Contract Award Notice NTMv5 Rebase

DEPARTMENT FOR TRANSPORT

  • Contract Timeline

    Publication Date

    8th October 2024 11:11:03 AM

  • Contract Summary

    Contract Award for NTMv5 Rebase. Summary of the requirement: NTMv5 is version 5 of the Department’s National Transport Model. It is a strategic model of surface travel demand responses and highway route choice. It uses PTV VISUM software (currently version VISUM 23). The Department now requires NTMv5 to be updated to reflect changes in travel demand following the covid-19 pandemic. The update is needed by the end of 2024 to support future forecasting activity in 2025. The forecasting activity is likely to focus more on regional traffic by vehicle type and road type than traffic on individual links, although there may be interest in presenting some information (potentially relating to motorways and other trunk roads) in thematic maps. The main components that need to be updated are the demand model and the highway assignment model. The Department intends to carry out high-level updates to the demand model component of NTMv5 (including trip frequency, mode choice, and if necessary location choice) in-house.

  • Contract Details

    Open Contracting ID

    ocds-h6vhtk-044ff3

    Publication Source

    Find a Tender Service

    Procurement Stage

    Award, Contract

    Procurement Method

    Open

    Procurement Method Details

    Open Procedure

    Procurement Category

    Services

    Tender Suitability

    Framework / DPS

  • Contract Classification

    CPV Code(s)

    73110000

    CPV Division(s)

    73 - Research and development services and related consultancy services

  • Awarding Authority

    DEPARTMENT FOR TRANSPORT

    Buyer Name

    Costaki Costi

    Buyer Email

    costaki.costi@dft.gov.uk

    Buyer Phone

    Buyer Address

    Great Minster House, 33 Horseferry Road

    London

    SW1P 4DR

    United Kingdom

  • Awarded Supplier(s)

    Supplier Name(s)

    ATKINSRéALIS UK LIMITED

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Planning

Department for Transport National Transport Model v. 5 2024 Rebase

DEPARTMENT FOR TRANSPORT

  • Contract Timeline

    Publication Date

    5th April 2024 11:28:43 AM

  • Contract Summary

    A PIN for this opportunity, requesting engagement from interested parties, has already been published at: https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/009464-2024?origin=SearchResults&p=1 This PIN duplicates the previous PIN, with an amended response deadline of 11:00, 22nd April 2024. The National Transport Model version 5 (NTMv5) is a large transport model, developed using classic transport modelling principles but with a number of adaptations to enable it to be sufficiently informative with shorter run times. Some parts of the model use a “masking” system with a representative subset of zone-to-zone movements, to reduce computation times. The Department for Transport is considering a `rebase' of the system. There are three important elements to this work. First, and most important, the requirement is to update the highway assignment component of NTMv5 to reflect the situation post-covid19. This is needed for strategic forecasting purposes. In practice, this means using data from 2022 and 2023, a shorter period than the original data used to estimate NTMv5. The challenge with this work will be to exercise judgement about where compromises are needed to meet the tight timescales for this project, whilst still providing sufficient quality for strategic forecasting. This work may also provide some opportunity (albeit within limited timescales) for an innovative approach to meet this challenge. Secondly, we intend to switch from using National Highways traffic counts to the Department’s data (potentially including traffic by region and road type as well as counts) for this update. This is because for strategic forecasting purposes, the Department requires the modelled traffic to match its own understanding of traffic in the model base year. Finally, the Department would like to have the capability to carry out similar updates in-house in future. Therefore, we would anticipate allowing some time after the model updates are complete for documentation, handover, and potentially training to the Department in the methods used for this update. This Prior Information Notice aims to gather information from potential bidders about their capability and capacity to provide these services - via an expression of interest. To respond, please first register an account on the Department for Transport’s e-sourcing platform, Jaggaer (https://dft.app.jaggaer.com/). Once you have registered an account, please access and respond to the Jaggaer PQQ event for this EoI (pqq_431, available at: https://dft.app.jaggaer.com/go/10612947018E65985C93). Communications about this procurement should be routed by the message function under the PQQ event. The deadline for responses to the EoI is 11:00, 22 April 2024. Further competition will not be restricted to respondents to this EoI.

  • Contract Details

    Open Contracting ID

    ocds-h6vhtk-044ff3

    Publication Source

    Find a Tender Service

    Procurement Stage

    Planning

    Procurement Method

    N/A

    Procurement Method Details

    N/A

    Procurement Category

    Services

    Tender Suitability

    Framework / DPS

  • Contract Classification

    CPV Code(s)

    73110000

    CPV Division(s)

    73 - Research and development services and related consultancy services

  • Awarding Authority

    DEPARTMENT FOR TRANSPORT

    Buyer Name

    Buyer Email

    charles.jansen@dft.gov.uk

    Buyer Phone

    Buyer Address

    London

    United Kingdom

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