New BIM Price List: innovation and excellence in the infrastructural engineering sector

The Italian infrastructural scene is preparing for dealing with unprecedented challenges in terms of modernisation and digitalisation, and the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) provides a tool for outlining strategies and investments to relaunch the economy and achieve sustainable development of the Country.

Within this scene of great innovation and sudden changes Italferr, the Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane Group's Engineering Company at the Infrastructures Hub, has defined a new BIM (Building Information Modelling) Price List in response to the challenges set by the PNRR, with a view to ensuring constant dialogue within the sector's spin-offs, on crucial questions associated with digitalisation and implementation of innovative methodologies.

The BIM Price List, which aim is to define economic amounts for future activation of services in support of design done using digital information management methods and instruments, will make it possible to engage successfully with the various players involved in the infrastructures chain. The BIM Price List provides a clear, detailed overview of the costs for producing Computerised Models and Drawings, related to each element of a railway infrastructure, in the various phases of developing a design.

The new Price List provides the economic reference for future Draft Agreements for Categories that support BIM design of the “SQ-001 Sub-system for Approval of Providers of Services in Support of Italferr S.p.A. Engineering” published by Italferr's Procurement Management, for both Civil Works and for railway infrastructure Technologies.

This result was made possible by challenging, collaborative work across the Company's various structures, actively involving 40 personnel over a development period of 15 months, all coordinated by the BIM and Asset Management Operational Structure in Italferr's TID Spoke & Digital Rail Infrastructure Development Management.

The result is a new BIM Price List that is made up of more than 1500 price items and analyses, detailed according to their complexity and the computerised / geometric level of the individual models, organised according to the following classification:

• Computerised modelling.
• Extraction and post-processing of drawings, based on the computerised models.
• Reports and drawings that cannot be extracted from the computerised models.

Valorisation of the individual items started out from experience gained by Italferr's experts in developing BIM projects that, associated with an in-depth market analysis, led to joint determination of the cost of the individual items.

This arrangement will allow Italferr to identify outside support, overcoming a logic of applying a percentage increment to previous versions of price lists, based on the cost of the drawings, and will make it possible to define the costs of services unequivocally associated with the services required of suppliers contractually.

Releasing the new BIM Price List is yet another facet of Italferr's commitment to innovation and excellence in the infrastructural engineering sector. By reaching this further milestone, one of a kind on the national scene, Italferr makes its know-how available to all players who need it, providing an efficient, cutting-edge solution to the infrastructural challenges of the future.