---
title: "Aerial Derived Data Repository RFI"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-03a6e6"
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current_stage: "Planning"
buyer: "NETWORK RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE LTD"
published: "2023-02-20"
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# Aerial Derived Data Repository RFI

Buyer: NETWORK RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE LTD  
Current stage: Planning  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-03a6e6

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## Summary

Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd is planning to retender the Aerial Derived Data Repository system. Network Rail, a public body responsible for maintaining a vast railway network in the UK, is seeking a cloud-based image collaboration tool that can manage, view, maintain, and analyse the network. The tender, titled "Aerial Derived Data Repository RFI", falls under the IT services category and aims to accommodate the increased growth in image size and quality while eliminating hardware-specific image accuracy data. Interested suppliers must register with the Supplier Qualification System by July 2023, with responses to be submitted by the 31st of March 2023.

This tender opportunity presents a chance for businesses involved in IT services, consulting, software development, and Internet support to compete for providing the required system capabilities. Companies with expertise in aviation test software, image-processing software, database systems, and storage media loading software packages may find this procurement particularly suited to their offerings. The future notice date for communication regarding this tender is set for January 31, 2024, providing potential bidders with essential timeline information to engage with Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd.

## Notice

The Network Rail Air Operations team sit within Route Services, the central Network Rail business function, and is looking to retender its current aerial derived data repository system. This should accommodate the increased growth in image capture and quality while removing the reliance on hardware specific (e.g. helicopter vs drone) data image accuracy. The requirement is to provide a system which can deliver the capabilities and functionalities, specified in the Request for Information Aerial Derived Data Repository Requirements Document, and support and maintain this as BAU. The system is currently cloud-based, stores approximately 1.7 million images and has around 17,000 users.

### Lot Information

Lot 1

Network Rail is an arm's length public body that maintains a network which includes 20,000 miles of track, 30,000 bridges, 20 managed stations across the GBUK and thousands of signals and level crossings. The Network Rail Air Operations team sit within Route Services, the central Network Rail business function, and is looking to retender its current aerial derived data repository system. This should accommodate the increased growth in image size and quality while removing the reliance on hardware specific image accuracy data. The system currently in use is a cloud-based image collaboration tool that helps to manage, view, maintain and analyse the network. Requirement: * To replicate the capabilities and functionalities currently provided by the existing system, this includes a cloud-based repository system with support and maintenance services.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/005048-2023 |
| Notice type | Planning Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Not Specified |
| Procurement method details | Not specified |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | Not specified |
| All stages | Planning |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 20 Feb 2023 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | 31 Jan 2024 |
| Award date | Not specified |
| Contract period | Not specified |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | Not specified |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Planned |
| Lots status | Planned |
| Awards status | Not specified |
| Contracts status | Not specified |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | NETWORK RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE LTD |
| Locality | LONDON |
| Post town | North West London |
| Postcode | NW1 2DN |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLI London |
| ITL 2 | TLI3 Inner London - West |
| ITL 3 | TLI36 Camden |
| Local authority | Camden |
| Electoral ward | Regent's Park |
| Westminster constituency | Holborn and St Pancras |
| Delivery location | Not specified |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 48 - Software package and information systems
- 72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

### Codes

- 48132000 - Aviation test software package
- 48328000 - Image-processing software package
- 48610000 - Database systems
- 48750000 - Storage media loading software package
- 72000000 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

## Release History

- 20 Feb 2023 at 15:16 - Planning - Planning Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/005048-2023

## Notice URLs

- https://www.networkrail.co.uk

## Provenance

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