Support for the purchase of low-floor trams
Customer: Basel public transport authority (BVB), Switzerland
Project tasks
- Capture customer wishes concerning vehicle technology
- Support documentation of the resulting technical requirements
- Consider the current state of technology
- Take account of current technical rules and standards
- Revise the draft specification
- Conduct a technical evaluation of the submitted bids
Our Approach
PROSE employs experts with many years’ experience in rail passenger transport. This allowed PROSE to put the tender call in a correct and due form and to state the customer’s requirements so as to facilitate their practical implementation. PROSE also brought in current technical rules and standards and took current laws and regulations into account.
Customer benefit
The customer gained value because the PROSE experts, reduced the commitment of customer resources in the tender call’s development and because PROSE introduced knowledge of current technology and of corresponding systems and components in developing the concept for the tram. PROSE took into account the experience of other public transport agencies in recent rolling stock procurement projects and contributed to a neutral and impartial bid evaluation.
