Iarnród Éireann (IÉ) has a 5 year requirement for the services of a specialist company to undertake the inspection, re-certification, maintenance and overhaul of cylinders on fire suppression systems for their various fleets, applicants are being asked by IÉ to participate in a tender process for the provision of specialist cylinder maintenance services on fire suppression systems.
The successful contractor will be required to undertake the following, in relation to IE’s maintenance requirements:
• Cylinder inspection
• Cylinder pressure testing
• Pressure sensor replacement
• Replace all defective parts where necessary
• Cylinders to be refilled and pressurised as per the specification
• On completion each cylinder must be re-certified and returned to the IÉ depot with a letter of conformance and tagged with the new expiration date and individual serial number.
• If a cylinder is not in a condition to be overhauled then IÉ may require a new replacement cylinder to be sourced from the OEM.
Fleet and Depot Details:
• 22000 ICR – Portlaosie Traincare Depot
• 2900 DMU – Drogheda DMU Depot
• 2600/2800 – Limerick Depot
• Mark IV/201/701 - Inchicore Depot
The scope of the contract will involve undertaking the re-certification, maintenance and overhaul requirement for the various cylinders fitted to the Kiddie Graviner fire suppression systems on the above fleets.
PLEASE NOTE: The Fire Suppression Systems are Safety Critical and the CME Safety Standard document ‘CME-SMS-009 Supply, Overhaul, Storage and Contract Management of Safety Critical Requirements’ will apply to this requirement. This will require IÉ’s Supplier Assurance Co-ordinator to audit suppliers of Safety Critical Components to ascertain if they achieve technical acceptability to supply safety critical components and/or systems.
Please take time to read the content of the notice carefully and to ensure that you provide all requested information by the specified date.