PROCUREMENT OF A DESIGN-BUILD-OPERATEMAINTAIN (DBOM) CONTRACTOR FOR THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENT TRANSPORT SYSTEM (ITS) IN SOUTH AFRICA

摘要

Over the past two years, the South African National Roads Agency Limited (SANRAL) engaged in a comprehensive assessment of its overall Intelligent Transportation System Program. This assessment included its existing ITS deployment and operations in the Gauteng Province as well as plans and systems for its recently commissioned deployments in the provinces of Kwazulu-Natal and the Western Cape. The assessment resulted in the identification of several areas for which SANRAL could enhance the level of benefit it was delivering to the travelling public. These included modifications to their institutional environment as well as enhancement and expansion of their operations and systems. To implement the operations and systems changes, SANRAL assessed several approaches and elected to go out on Tender to acquire the services of a DBOM contractor. The DBOM contractor is to operate SANRAL’s three Transportation Management Centers, expand the deployments in each region in accordance with the Agency’s strategic deployment plan and concept of operations, and provide and implement new systems software. This paper describes the procurement and evaluation process, the procurement vehicle and some lessons learned.