Pedestrian Accessibility and Road Safety Expertise for Public Roads and Spaces in the Lyon Metropolis

The Lyon Metropolis is seeking expertise to enhance pedestrian accessibility and road safety across its public roads and spaces. The Metropolis's road management activities are structured around four key areas: maintenance and preservation of road infrastructure; development, improvement, and expansion of the road network; operation of traffic signals and management of traffic flow; and the exercise of police powers related to traffic. Daily, the Lyon Metropolis strives to fulfill these missions with the overarching goal of ensuring and improving the safety of multimodal travel and the accessibility for people with reduced mobility within the urban area. This is achieved by developing infrastructure that favors soft modes of transport, facilitating the movement of vulnerable individuals and those with disabilities, and implementing specific road improvements tailored to living areas.

This procurement specifically aims to cover a range of expert services. These include studies on safety challenges and thematic or localized safety issues, as well as situational prevention safety expertise. The scope also encompasses the input or correction of safety data, and the execution of accessibility diagnostics for people with reduced mobility and disabilities. Furthermore, the contract will involve the collection of accessibility data, evaluation studies for safety or accessibility, and expert missions in these domains. Finally, the services required include the creation or updating of reference documents pertaining to safety and accessibility.

This is a services contract in the urban development and housing, architecture and engineering and transport and logistics sectors, with a focus on Urban Planning, Feasibility Studies and Traffic Management. Located in France, Europe, this opportunity is open to firms and consortiums.

Published through TED - Tenders Electronic Daily (EU), a national government procurement portal. Public procurement tenders follow the country's national bidding regulations and may have specific eligibility and documentation requirements for services in the urban development and housing sector. Service contracts are typically evaluated on both technical quality and price, and may require bidders to demonstrate relevant experience and qualified personnel. This contract has already been awarded. The information is published for transparency and market intelligence purposes.