** Class 68 News **
First Look at the New Livery
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MK5 and 68's Contract signed
Description
The contracting authority will enter into contracts with the supplier for the supply of existing rolling stock for use on the Chiltern Railways routes. These contracts will be for the leasing by the supplier to the contracting authority of the supplier's full fleet of Mark5A coaches and Class 68 locomotives, for operation by the contracting authority, with associated maintenance.
Legal Justification
On 22 December 2023 the contracting authority issued a contract notice
- utilities with Notice reference 2023/S 000-037814 for the replacement
of existing rolling stock.
Beacon Rail Finance (Europe) Limited was the only supplier that could
offer rolling stock units that meet the contracting authority's
technical requirements of having units able to be utilised in fixed
formations of 5 passenger vehicles to enter into passenger service from
31 March 2026 on a turnkey basis.
Under the agreed contract terms, the supplier will be responsible for
procuring preventative and corrective maintenance for the units on an
interim basis for a period between contract award and 6 December 2026.
This will cover services in respect of 4 units to be provided for the
purposes of driver training and 3 units to enable passenger service
commencement on 1 April 2026.
The contracting authority will be responsible for certain train
preparation, cleaning, fuelling and minor defect rectification services
(as agreed from time to time between the contracting authority and the
supplier's maintenance providers) during this interim period and will be
a party to the interim service agreement in order to reduce interface
risk with its self-delivered services and facilitate the performance and
reliability of the units.
The contracting authority intends to carry out a separate procurement
for the long-term provision of preventative and corrective maintenance
over the remainder of the 144 month period.
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