The Public Works Authority (Ashghal) has invited firms to bid by 9 October for the operations and maintenance framework contract for the state’s intelligent transport system (ITS).

The contract will have a maximum duration of five years with an optional two one-year extensions.

It will cover preventative and corrective maintenance as well as operations and new installations of the ITS network’s components.

MEED understands Qatar’s ITS network comprises of:

• Traffic signals
• Emergency vehicle preemption system
• Traffic detection and monitoring system
• CCTV
• Road weather information system
• Air quality monitoring
• Overhead vehicle detection system
• Weight in motion
• Dynamic message sign
• Portable dynamic message sign
• Lane control signs
• ITS structures
• Toll and payment collection
• Wide area network
• Connected vehicle technology
• Control room equipment and software
• Smart lighting management system

Ashghal tendered the contract to design, develop, procure, install, commission, operate and maintain an intelligent transport system in early 2017.

The system sought was envisaged to enable control room operators to manage, monitor and maintain the road networks and assets within the responsibility of Ashghal “24 hours a day, 365 days a year.”

The software-driven system was to be installed at the roads assets management centre (RAMC), which is located on the ground floor of the headquarters building of the Asset Affairs division of Ashghal.