WP 5

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WP 5

• Setting up a joint procurement procedure

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Part 1 WP5 overwiew

• Which obstacles to a common trans- national
  procurement initiative ?
• Which solution ?

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What has been done

• Collect information through the partners and
  European questionnaire
• Link with existing common procurement experiences
• Identify juridical state of the art tools

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Compro participatory process
From the demand side (convergence on common
standards/specification ?)
From the supply side (attitude of the industry
towards buyers consortia)
From a juridical perspective How can we join the
order ?
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Part 2 What to buy ? (tech specs)

• Start from UITP Tender Structure for tendering of
  buses and related services, functional
  specifications to try to achieve common
  procurement standard
• Proposition for a common clean bus comparison
  of each city requirement
• OK I agree to buy buses with proposition of
  compro standard
• KO N I disagree to buy buses with proposition
  BUT it is negotiable
• KO NN I disagree to buy buses with proposition
  and it is NON negotiable

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13.1 Accessibility ? Conformity with directive
EC-EU/2001/85
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Details of the table
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In summary

• At first view more convergence points than
  blocking points
• But the devil hides in details ?
• Manufacturing overcosts
• 10 are linked to national regulations (road
  regulation)
• 10 are linked to network facilities adaptation
  (AVL, radio systems, ticketing, ramps etc..)
• 80 at the specific operation and commercial
  requirements (colours, design, seats, places of
  the doors, driver cabins)
• Go back to different manufacturers with a summary
  of the sepcs table
• what do they consider should be in the common
  base
• what can be optionnal , at which price

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Examples of questions to manufacturers

• Impact of door movement in or out ?
• Communication tools Can pre wiring be
  compatible ?
• advertising panels, hammers for breaking windows
  seem easy to deal with
• Seat, floor and external design sound more
  complicated
• Need for  COMPROmise  between partners

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Part 3 Next steps

• Draft specifications
• Market the idea at each local level by proposing
  to put into operation the first  european common
  bus ,
• Find the legal way to be able to purchase
  together