Belgium – Motor vehicles for the transport of 10 or more persons – Levering en onderhoud van een vervoersysteem met autonome voertuigen

This contract concerns a framework agreement for setting up a purchasing centre, and includes all necessary deliveries and services to supply and implement an autonomous transport system, consisting of, among other things, multiple autonomous vehicles for passenger transport, at various locations in Flanders for De Lijn and at other locations (in the EU) for the other purchasers of the purchasing centre. The contractor will be asked, within the framework of this framework contract, to offer, for various pilot projects, different types of autonomous vehicles with different requirements in terms of capacity per vehicle. The autonomous vehicles will have to drive on public roads in complex traffic environments in full interaction with other road users. Also, non-vehicle-related supporting parts of this transport system are part of this contract, such as, but not limited to: a supervision centre and the maintenance of, among other things, the autonomous control system of the vehicles and the associated supervision centre.