Ingenieursdiensten Rivium

The contract timeline is as follows:

• Contract Start Date: The framework agreement comes into effect on March 1, 2027.
• Initial Duration: The framework agreement has a duration of 4 years.
• Extension Option: The agreement can be extended a maximum of two times, each for a period of 1 year, under the same conditions, unless the client cancels the agreement at least six months before the expiration of the current term.
• Maximum End Date: In case of maximal extension, the framework agreement will end by operation of law on February 28, 2033. Another reference states the maximum duration is until March 1, 2033.
• Early Termination: The framework agreement will automatically terminate if the maximum financial scope of €1,800,000 (excluding VAT) is reached, irrespective of the stated duration.

Key milestones and phases explicitly mentioned in the tender procedure leading up to the contract start are:

• Publication of the assignment: August 6, 2026.
• 1st round of questions (deadline): September 3, 2026, 12:00 PM.
• Dispatch of answers to 1st round of questions (note of information): September 14, 2026.
• Latest receipt of application: September 28, 2026, 12:00 PM.
• Dispatch of provisional selection: October 13, 2026.
• Dispatch of definitive selection: November 3, 2026.
• Invitation of selected candidates for the award phase: November 10, 2026.
• Latest receipt of bids: January 21, 2027, 12:00 PM.
• Effective date of the agreement: March 1, 2027.

Further assignments (Nadere Opdrachten) under the framework agreement will include their own planning, milestones, and delivery dates.

The core scope of work for this tender involves the provision of integral and multidisciplinary engineering services for the Rivium area development. The overall service includes research, advice, and plan development leading to an integral design, technical preparation, securing permits and notifications, providing contract advice, and the preparation and supervision of tenders for execution. These services will be provided through specific "Nadere opdrachten" (further assignments) during the framework agreement's term, with the exact content, scope, phasing, planning, financial frameworks, and deliverables determined per assignment.

Key activities and deliverables include:

• Integral coordination and technical preparation of the public space within the planning area.
• Designing and technically preparing both the municipal public space and the underground main infrastructure.
• Developing and implementing the area-wide mobility plan.
• Reviewing and integrally coordinating designs and work performed by the "Coalitie" (a consortium of developers).
• Managing interfaces between municipal works, Coalitie works, and other developments within and around the project area.
• Ensuring coherence across above-ground and underground elements, design, phasing, execution, management, and financial aspects.
• Collecting, assessing, and integrally aligning existing data, studies, and design documents.
• Developing plans and designs into integral preliminary, definitive, or execution designs.
• Establishing and managing design parameters, requirements, and boundary conditions.
• Conducting variant studies and integral evaluations.
• Drafting, elaborating, and testing designs.
• Providing design management and interdisciplinary coordination.
• Producing drawings, calculations, reports, and technical justifications.
• Testing designs for feasibility, executability, manageability, maintainability, and safety.
• Preparing work to a technically ready-for-execution level, including phasing and execution plans.
• Budget-driven design and cost management, encompassing the creation and updating of cost estimates (e.g., SSK methodology), cost optimization, and timely reporting of budget overruns.
• Serving as an integral point of contact for the client and leading the coordination of assigned tasks.
• Ensuring internal coordination, deployment, and management of necessary disciplines, as well as the overall coherence, quality, and timely delivery of all products.
• Timely identification of bottlenecks, risks, and deviations, and integral processing of changes.
• Coordination with other involved parties as part of the assignment.

The project specifically encompasses six sub-projects: Openbaar Ruimte (RED - integral public space, landscape, mobility, and Coalitie review), Openbaar Ruimte (YELLOW - municipal public space, mobility, and landscape), Underground main infrastructure and preparatory works, ParkShuttle (grade-separated crossing, track extensions, new/adapted stops), Abram van Rijckevorselweg (redesign, speed reduction), and the Metropolitan Bicycle Route Ridderkerk-Rotterdam.

Deliverables for each further assignment will specifically include the scope and demarcation of work, requested products and results, involved disciplines and key personnel, planning, milestones, delivery dates, budget, agreed price, applicable standards and documents, and methods for reporting, testing, delivery, and acceptance, including agreements on changes, risks, and interfaces. All final products must be delivered in both viewable and original, fully editable source formats, along with underlying calculations, models, estimates, drawings, registers, and metadata.