DFT Operator Limited 'DFTO': Contract Register & Procurement Profile
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Tenders you can still bid for.
Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.
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Notices published in the last 12 months.
Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.
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How much of this buyer’s work goes to its three most frequent suppliers.
Share of its awarded tenders that name at least one of the top three. Each tender is counted once.
36 awarded tenders, 38 different suppliers.
Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.
A likely retender, not a certain one.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of award values to single suppliers, VAT excluded, on notices from the last 24 months. Framework ceilings and repeated totals are left out.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
Open notices
1 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
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| DFTO Ground Transportation | 31 May 2034 | 2801d | — |
What they buyi
What kind of work is bought here.
Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.
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What kind of work is bought here.
Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.
Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each
79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting8 procedures · 21%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet5 procedures · 13%34 Transport equipment and products3 procedures · 8% · 1 open66 Financial and insurance services3 procedures · 8%60 Transport services (except waste transport)2 procedures · 5% · 1 open48 Software package and information systems2 procedures · 5%63 Supporting and auxiliary transport; travel2 procedures · 5%22 Printed matter and related products1 procedures · 3%How they buyi
How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
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How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
Last 24 months · 39 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim
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How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
- Contract 95% (37 notices)
- Dynamic purchasing system 3% (1 notices)
- Framework 3% (1 notices)
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Which procedures buyers here use.
Notices by the procedure they declare: open, selective, limited or direct. Open and selective are competitions; limited and direct are not.
- Limited / restricted 54% (21 notices)
- Route not published 28% (11 notices)
- Direct award 8% (3 notices)
- Open 5% (2 notices)
- Selective 5% (2 notices)
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.
Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.
Based on 41 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
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Do this buyer’s awards land above or below its own estimates.
Each lot’s published estimate against its award, on this buyer’s competitions, like for like.
Based on 1 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months. Small sample.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
Who wins herei
Which suppliers win the most here.
Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.
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Which suppliers win the most here.
Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.
All published awards naming a supplier · ranked by distinct procedures, not pounds · panel and call-off entries inflate award records
| Supplier | Procedures | Share | Last 24m | Award records | Last activity |
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| Baringa Partners | 3 | 8.3% | 3 | 3 | 5 May 2026 |
| VA Rail Limited | 2 | 5.6% | 2 | 2 | 9 Jul 2026 |
| Alchester HR Consulting Ltd | 2 | 5.6% | 2 | 2 | 25 Aug 2026 |
| Addleshaw Goddard LLP | 2 | 5.6% | 2 | 2 | 28 Sept 2026 |
| PA CONSULTING SERVICES LTD | 2 | 5.6% | 2 | 2 | 9 Jul 2026 |
| TRANSPORT UK LONDON BUS LIMITED | 1 | 2.8% | 1 | 2 | 8 Sept 2026 |
| CMAC Group UK Ltd | 1 | 2.8% | 1 | 2 | 8 Sept 2026 |
| First Travel Solutions Ltd | 1 | 2.8% | 1 | 2 | 8 Sept 2026 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 19% of 36 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 38 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards — not a statement of preference.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of award values to single suppliers, VAT excluded, on notices from the last 24 months. Framework ceilings and repeated totals are left out.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
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What one of this buyer’s contracts is usually worth.
Middle value of the same awards as the total above.
Largest published awards iThe biggest published awards. Awards to a single supplier with a published value, largest first, so you can check the totals against the notice. A repeated framework total can appear here. Open the notice to check. | Supplier | Awarded | Term | Published value |
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| Provision of Recruitment Services | Alexander Mann Solutions Ltd | — | — | £100,000,000 † |
| Provision of Legal Advisers for the Public Ownership Programme | Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP | — | — | £3,650,000 † |
| Rail Network Customer Interfaces Merger: Structure, Purpose & Principles | M&C Saatchi (UK) Ltd | — | — | £3,000,000 † |
| Provision of Travel Management Services | TravelPerk UK IRL Limited | — | — | £2,000,000 † |
| Provision of Insurance Brokerage Services | Willis Limited | — | — | £1,400,000 † |
Contracts endingi
Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.
A likely retender, not a certain one.
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.
A likely retender, not a certain one.
Published end dates only · 19 of 35 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| GTR Resilience Plan | VA Rail Limited | 14 Oct 2026 | £81,000 |
| Procurement Consultancy Support | Ad Astra Consultants Ltd | 31 Dec 2026 | £95,000 |
| Provision of Political Monitoring Services | POLICYMOGUL LIMITED | 2 Mar 2027 | £101,876 |
| Procurement Legal Support | DLA Piper | 6 Mar 2027 | £100,000 |
| Strategic Safety Management Programme (SSMP) Training | Arthur D Little Ltd | 15 Jun 2027 | £100,000 |
| IT Architecture Services for DFTO | PA CONSULTING SERVICES LTD | 29 Jun 2027 | £175,000 |
| Cyber strategy and roadmap consultancy support | Marlborough Consulting LLP | 23 Aug 2027 | £30,000 |
| TOC Remco Chair Services | Alchester HR Consulting Ltd | 1 Oct 2027 | £30,000 |
Recent procedures
Latest 39 of 39 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| Rolling Stock and Infrastructure Strategy Financial AdvisoryFinancial consultancy services | Awarded / complete | 28 Sept 2026 | — |
| Provision of Legal Advisers for In-life OperatorLegal advisory services | Awarded / complete | 28 Sept 2026 | — |
| IT Cost VisualisationInformation systems or technology strategic review and planning services | Awarded / complete | 22 Sept 2026 | — |
| Provision of Legal Advisers for the Public Ownership ProgrammeLegal services | Awarded / complete | 27 Aug 2026 | — |
| TOC Remco Chair Services | Awarded / complete | 25 Aug 2026 | — |
| Cyber strategy and roadmap consultancy support | Awarded / complete | 24 Aug 2026 | — |
| Provision of Claims Handling and Related ServicesFinancial and insurance services | Awarded / complete | 17 Aug 2026 | — |
| Procurement Consultancy Support | Awarded / complete | 14 Jul 2026 | — |
| Provision of Insurance Brokerage ServicesInsurance brokerage services | Awarded / complete | 14 Jul 2026 | — |
| Rail Network Customer Interfaces Merger: Structure, Purpose & PrinciplesAdvertising and marketing services | Awarded / complete | 10 Jul 2026 | — |
| GTR Resilience Plan | Awarded / complete | 9 Jul 2026 | — |
| DFTO Support for GBR Digital narrative and capabilityProject management consultancy services | Awarded / complete | 9 Jul 2026 | — |
| Strategic Safety Management Programme (SSMP) Training For DFTO | Awarded / complete | 29 Jun 2026 | — |
| Establishment of a Framework for the Provision of a Revenue Management SystemIT services: consulting | Open | 5 Jun 2026 | £50,000,000 |
| Procure to Pay (P2P) System | Awarded / complete | 8 May 2026 | — |
| DFTO 2026 Functional Design PhaseBusiness and management consultancy services | Awarded / complete | 5 May 2026 | — |
| Cloud Software ServicesSoftware package and information systems | Awarded / complete | 21 Apr 2026 | — |
| The provision of consultancy services to support development of high performing teams for customers | Awarded / complete | 17 Mar 2026 | — |
| Provision of Recruitment ServicesRecruitment services | Awarded / complete | 17 Mar 2026 | — |
| Provision of Tender legal support | Awarded / complete | 3 Mar 2026 | — |
Data coverage & method
- Source: Find a Tender OCDS releases; mixed PCR 2015 / Procurement Act 2023 history — no legal-regime label is applied.
- Counts are procedures (one notice family), not lots. Authority cluster = canonical buyer plus beneficiary and procuring-entity roles.
- Published procedure values exist on a minority of notices; their lifetime sum (£175k, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 37 award records on 36 procedures (35 to a single canonical supplier, 2 multi-supplier). 35 values come from the contract record when the award carried none.
- Bid counts, deadline-to-award, amendments and award-vs-estimate come from the nightly buyer analytics row; each figure’s own method and sample is behind its , the long form on Methodology.
- Contract end dates: 19 of 35 published contracts carry a period end; 8 end within 18 months, 4 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (1 historical Find a Tender publication identifier)
Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.
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