Railway Industry Supplier Qualification Scheme (RISQS)

RSSB, The Helicon, 1 South Place, London, EC2M 2RB.

This Notice announces the existence of a qualification system for the railway industry pursuant to which the utilities, and other buyers, listed in Section VI.3 below can purchase services falling within the CPV codes listed in this Section II. The qualification system is operated by RSSB and include the GB rail industry's supplier Pre-Qualification Questionnaire and audit. The RISQS coding structure, against which suppliers indicate their areas of capability, is the RICCL. The Railway Industry Commodity Classification List (RICCL) includes all commodities that are purchased to support GB Railway operations and provides a common vocabulary for the benefit of all buyers and suppliers who are participants in railway supplier assurance activities. It aligns with International standards (especially ISO 81346) while utilising the best of existing models. The Commodity Classification System is a hierarchical classification system. All entities are identified with a structured alpha-numeric code which both indicates its location in the list and uniquely classifies it. The Commodity Classification System is split into 8 subsystems. Each subsystem consists of its classes. These could be termed its “children”. Each class is part of its subsystem, this could be termed its parent. The prefixes A-H identify which subsystem a commodity belongs too. The codes, and further explanations can be found at http://www.risqs.org/explanation-of-riccl/

This Notice incorporates any changes that have occurred since the previous Qualification System Notice (QSN) was published for RISQS services and supersedes all previous QSNs for RISQS service.

Buyers may on occasion use this qualification system to award contracts in relation to a project or programme financed by European Funds.

RISQS has been established as an industry-based service to assist the UK rail companies, and their associated transport activities, by providing through the administration of a single qualification scheme and database. For all of the product and service categories listed, RISQS will provide a register of suppliers and Contractors to the subscribers listed in Section VI.3, and for some of the categories a second stage qualification will be applied as part of the scheme. Registered and qualified suppliers may be considered by subscribers for contract opportunities, without further notification of requirements in the “Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union”. Each subscriber may impose further qualification stages and in addition certain contract opportunities may be published separately, even though they relate to the commodity classification list. This suppliers wishing to register on RISQS should reply to the address listed in Section I or visit http://shop.risqs.org/

Some of the utilities using this qualification system may use electronic auctions

The organisations that subscribe to RISQS as Clients and therefore have the ability to source suppliers using the information within are:

ABB Ltd (Power Systems)

ABC Electrification Limited

Abellio East Anglia Ltd

Abellio Scotrail

Abellio Scotrail Ltd

Abellio Transport Holdings Ltd

AECOM Limited

Alan Dick Communications Ltd (Trading as ADComms)

Alstom Transport UK Limited

Alun Griffiths (Contractors) Ltd

Amalgamated Construction Ltd

Amey Rail Limited

Angel Trains

Ansaldo STS UK Ltd

Arriva UK Trains Ltd

Atkins Limited

Atos IT Services UK Ltd

B and M McHugh Ltd

Babcock Rail Ltd

Balfour Beatty Rail Ltd

BAM Construction Ltd

BAM Nuttall Ltd

BCM Construction Ltd

Bechtel Limited

Buckingham Group Contracting Limited

C Spencer Ltd

Carillion Construction Ltd

Carillion Powerlines Limited

Chiltern Railways

Clancy Docwra Limited t/a Clancy Docwra Rail

Cleshar Contract Services Ltd

Colas Rail Limited

Commercial Property Maintenance Services Ltd

Costain Limited

Crossrail Limited

Cubic Transportation Systems Ltd

DHL Supply Chain LImited

East Midlands Trains

Eurostar International Limited

Ferrovial Agroman UK Ltd

First Greater Western Limited

First MTR South Western Trains Limited

FPA Consulting Ltd

Frankham Consultancy Group Ltd

Galldris Construction Ltd

Galliford Try Infrastructure Ltd

GB Railfreight Ltd

Geoffrey Osborne Limited

Giffen Group Limited

Govia Thameslink Railway Ltd

Halcrow Group Limited

Harsco Rail Limited

Heathrow Airport Limited

High Speed Two (HS2) Limited

Hitachi Rail Europe Ltd

HOCHTIEF (UK) Construction Ltd

Integrated Utility Services Ltd

J Murphy and Sons Limited

Jacobs UK Limited

John Graham Construction Limited T/A Graham Construction

JSS Rail Limited t/a Sisk Rail

Keltbray Limited T/A Keltbray Rail

Keolis Amey Docklands Limited

Keolis Amey Metrolink

Kier Infrastructure and Overseas Limited

Knorr Bremse Rail Systems (UK) Ltd

Laing O'Rourke Construction Limited

Lend Lease Construction (Europe) Ltd

London Underground Ltd t/a Transport for London

Lowery Ltd

Lundy Projects Ltd

M J Quinn Integrated Services Ltd

Mace Limited T/A Mace

McNicholas Construction Services Ltd

Merseyrail Electrics 2002 Ltd

Morgan Sindall Construction and Infrastructure Ltd

Network Rail

Nexus

NG Bailey Ltd

Northern Rail

Ove Arup and Partners International Ltd T/A Arup

Progress Rail Services UK Ltd

Resonate Group Limited

Select Plant Hire Company Limited

Siemens Mobility Limited, Rail Automation Ashby

Siemens Mobility Limited, Rail Automation Chippenham

Siemens Mobility Limited, Rail Electrification

Siemens PLC - Managed Services

Skanska Construction UK Ltd

SNC-Lavalin Rail and Transit Ltd

Sonic Rail Services Limited

Southeastern Railway

Stagecoach

Stagecoach South Western Trains Ltd

Stobart Rail Ltd

Story Contracting Ltd

Tarmac Holdings Limited t/a Tarmac

Taziker Industrial Limited

Telent Technology Services Ltd

The Channel Tunnel Group Limited T/A Groupe Eurotunnel

TSP Projects Ltd t/a TSP Projects

TXM Plant Limited

UK Power Networks Services (Commercial) Limited

Unipart Rail Limited

VINCI Construction UK Limited t/a Taylor Woodrow

Virgin Trains East Coast

Virgin Trains West Coast

Vital Human Resources Limited

VolkerFitzpatrick Ltd

VolkerRail Ltd

VVB Engineering Limited

Walker Construction (UK) Ltd

WSP UK Limited