Innovation partnership, deadline 24/04/2023, for the industrialized renewal of the ballast and sleepers of the railway and wheeled underground lines in Paris.

The massive natural ageing of metro network equipment requires its maintenance to be industrialised in order to meet the high level of safety required for rail traffic. Faced with this challenge, RATP wishes to innovate its practices by significantly mechanising its maintenance methods and significantly increasing its production yields without altering the availability time of the installations for IDF mobilité.

This innovation partnership will make it possible to meet three major objectives:

- Eliminate the use of combustion engines on these sites;

- Mechanize ballast and sleeper renewal operations for legacy maintenance with a target output of 6 km/year for the rail metro and 2.5 km/year for the rubber metro;

- To extend the methodology for the renewal of ballast and sleepers on rail-bound lines to tyre-bound metro lines.

The present consultation aims at selecting the 3 holders of the contracts of the innovation partnership. (rules for the award of the three partnership contracts in article 14 of the Special Rules of the Consultation)

Click here for tender documents and where tenders must be sent. Value of the contract is EUR130 million, excluding VAT. Duration of the contract will be 150 months. Contact RATP, attn Jean Cattelin, Paris, tel +33 664057032, email jean.cattelin@ratp.fr. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=177580-2023. Ref.n. DHA_2023GDI19260. 12/23.