Collaboration:the action of working with someone to produce something
Cooperation:the action or process of working together to the same end
The RSG “sets out the industry’s plans for improving productivity, for encouraging and capitalising on innovation
and for promoting collaboration right across the supply chain.”
“from everyone, and everywhere”*
* source
Collaboration supports innovation
Collaboration
Culture
Capability
REF: ROSSRAIL INNOVATION STRATEGY* source
“We’re using the British Standard BS 11000-1:2010, Collaborative Business Relationships, as the framework to develop, with our key suppliers, the processes, policies, culture and behaviours required to establish successful collaborations.”
Collaboration in practice
• Staffordshire Alliance: Atkins, Laing O’Rourke, Network Rail and VolkerRail, working as part of a new collaborative contract that will help to transform the delivery of rail infrastructure projects in the UK
• Switches & Crossings North Alliance (Scotland / LNE and EM / LNW North) – up to £400m over ten years
• Switches & Crossings South Alliance (Anglia / Kent and Sussex / Western, Wales and Wessex / LNW South) – up to £400m over ten years
“The alliance model means that we will work together with our delivery partners with aligned goals and objectives to efficiently deliver the switches and crossings work.” (ref)
Collaboration : Alliancing examples
“We need innovation from our supply chain to help us achieve these goals – and innovation also
requires collaboration.”
http://ted.europa.euhttps://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder
https://www.competefor.com/(ref)
“ a new concept in sustainable travel for local rail services, with a first-class engineering pedigree” • RDC - Railroad Development Corporation• Creactive Design Ltd• Motorail UK Ltd• Strukton Rail
Collaboration: a case study
BS11000: Collaborative Business Relationships
Rail Alliance BS11000 Awareness Workshop:
• Available to members and non-members • Introduces the background for and benefits derived from a
collaboration culture• Explains the 3 phases and the 8 stages to the standard• Outlines the accreditation requirements to achieve the standard
Test & Trials Facilities
3km loop
Sidings, trackside locations – various
25kV OHLE (2 x 200m)
WCML-standard continuously welded plain track (300m +)
Workshops
Lifting equipment
Storage Facilities (short term - long term)
Future Railway Test Voucher Scheme (FRTVS)
FRTVS extended through to the end of CP5 to assist product development mainly in the Technology Readiness Level 4-7 space
Up to £3,000 per company per product for subsidised testing and trialling
Test loop, infrastructure, traction, rolling stock, trials staff, linkage to academe
Repository of information for national and international secondary and tertiary Test and Trial facilities – see www.railalliance.co.uk
For more information please e-mail [email protected]
Collaboration in action
“Rail Live 2016 has been a terrific opportunity for
MECATEAMCLUSTER as a group of French rail
infrastructure specialists, to meet with new UK
suppliers and to discuss partnerships as well as new
products and solutions for the industry.”
David Deslandes Business Development Manager at
Mecateamcluster
www.railalliance.co.uk
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