Tender Results of Office Of Rail Regulation

Assessing National Highways evaluation of its smart motorways action plan-The successful consultants will undertake a review of National Highways' approach to monitoring and evaluating the impact of the smart motorway action plan and consider initial results from this work. ORR will use the findings to inform our assessment of National Highways' progress in evaluating the impact of the smart motorway action plan. In particular, whether the company's approach continues to follow best practice. We will report our conclusions in our next annual assessme...

Developing leading indicators of passenger and freight train performance-The project will focus on developing a set of leading indicators of passenger and freight train punctuality and reliability, which create the precondition for success, giving insight into the steps the rail industry is taking to improve outcomes for passengers and freight.

Provision of safety critical software technical expertise to support ORR staff undertaking regulatory oversight of TfLs Four Lines Modernisation Project-The purpose of this tender is to undertake a 'deep dive' and assess a sample of the actions taken by TfL and Hitachi Rail in relation to the requirements of relevant standards. The deep dive will include: Review the software development practices in place now for the next major software upgrade, including a deep dive to look at a sample of subsystem specification and associated software specification. Opinion will be required on the scope and sufficiency of testing as preparation...

6 Lenovo ThinkPad x1 Laptops-Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 12 21KC - 180- degree hinge design - Intel Core Ultra 7 - 155U / up to 4.8 GHz - Evo - Win 11 Pro - Intel Graphics - 32 GB RAM - 1 TB SSD TCG Opal Encryption 2 NVMe Performance - 14 OLED touchscreen 2880 x 1800 (2.8K) @ 120 Hz - NFC Wi-Fi 6E Bluetooth - 5G - black paint - kbd UK - with 3 Years Lenovo Premier Support CO2 Offset 0.5 ton (2nd Gen)

10 Lenovo ThinkPad X13 Laptops-Lenovo ThinkPad X13 Yoga Gen 4 21F2 - Flip design - Intel Core i7 - 1355U / up to 5 GHz - Evo - Win 11 Pro - Intel Iris Xe Graphics - 16 GB RAM - 512 GB SSD TCG Opal Encryption 2 NVMe - 13.3 IPS touchscreen 1920 x 1200 - Wi-Fi 6E - 4G LTE - deep black - kbd UK - with 1 Year Lenovo Premier Support

Review of National Highways Asset Information-The high level aims and objectives of the project are: To review NH's compliance with Licence condition 5.9 (re: asset information); To provide recommendations to improve NH's capability to develop and maintain high-quality and accessible asset information; and To provide recommendations to improve how ORR holds NH to account to meet is Licence condition 5.9.

Provision of an outsourced finance service/system and payroll service.