FIRST RAIL HOLDINGS LIMITED: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
Companies House: Private Limited Company·Greater London·London·Ran 9 procurements for other authorities
Companies House05154485 ↗Websitefirstgroupplc.com ↗
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Tenders you can still bid for.
Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed, counted the way the search counts them: a notice shows under every code and region it names.
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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 this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of published VAT-exclusive awards to single suppliers, last 24 months. Left out: concession revenue, framework ceilings, repeated notices, equal-value duplicates.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carpark management services and ANPR installation | 9 Nov 2026 | 20d | £7,000,000 |
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
60 Transport services (except waste transport)2 procedures · 25%30 Office and computing machinery1 procedures · 13%48 Software package and information systems1 procedures · 13%64 Postal and telecommunications services1 procedures · 13%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 · 8 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.
Contract100%(8 notices)
8 of 8 notices are Contract (100%).
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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.
Selective50%(4 notices)
4 of 8 notices are Selective (50%).Direct award38%(3 notices)
3 of 8 notices are Direct award (38%).Limited / restricted13%(1 notices)
1 of 8 notices are Limited / restricted (13%).
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How many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.
Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.
Based on 2 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.
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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 8 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 4 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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| Cubic Transportation Systems Limited, | 2 | 33.3% | 2 | 2 | 5 May 2026 |
| SIGNATURE RAIL LIMITED | 1 | 16.7% | 1 | 1 | 15 Jul 2026 |
| SCHEIDT & BACHMANN (UK) LIMITED | 1 | 16.7% | 1 | 1 | 22 May 2025 |
| Nexus Alpha Ltd | 1 | 16.7% | 0 | 1 | — |
| Integral UK Ltd | 1 | 16.7% | 0 | 1 | — |
6 awarded procedures across 5 suppliers: too few to describe concentration.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of published VAT-exclusive awards to single suppliers, last 24 months. Left out: concession revenue, framework ceilings, repeated notices, equal-value duplicates.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
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The middle published award value for this buyer.
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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| First Greater Western Limited Contract for Maintenance and Support of Automatic Passenger Gate Systems | Cubic Transportation Systems Limited, | — | 6 yrs · up to 8 yrs | £24,164,631 ≈ £4.0m/yr |
| First Avanti West Coast Contract for Maintenance and Support of Automatic Passenger Gate Systems | Cubic Transportation Systems Limited, | — | 6 yrs · up to 8 yrs | £18,258,322 ≈ £3.0m/yr |
| GWR - Provision of Maintenance & Support for Ticket Vending Machines | SCHEIDT & BACHMANN (UK) LIMITED | — | 3 yrs | £6,000,000 ≈ £2.0m/yr |
| FRH - AWC Train Planning Software & Services Tender | SIGNATURE RAIL LIMITED | 15 Jul 2026 | 5 yrs · up to 7 yrs | £1,443,154 ≈ £289k/yr |
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 51 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| Provision of Retail Estate Management ServicesReal estate services | Awarded / complete | 15 Sept 2026 | £1,100,000 |
| FRH - AWC Train Planning Software & Services TenderRailway traffic control software package | Awarded / complete | 15 Jul 2026 | £1,443,154 |
| AWC - Class 80x Heavy MaintenanceRailway transport services | Open | 14 Jul 2026 | £15,000,000 |
| GWR - Class 387 Supply of LED LightsRailway and tramway locomotives and rolling stock and associated parts | Awarded / complete | 17 Jun 2026 | £450,000 |
| Estate ManagementReal estate services | Cancelled | 5 May 2026 | £1,100,000 |
| First Avanti West Coast Contract for Maintenance and Support of Automatic Passenger Gate Systems | Awarded / complete | 5 May 2026 | — |
| Temporary Labour for GWRSupply services of personnel including temporary staff | Awarded / complete | 30 Mar 2026 | £1,263,653 |
| AWC Station & Accommodation Cleaning, Washroom Services, and Vegetation ManagementAccommodation | Awarded / complete | 25 Mar 2026 | £25,500,000 |
| Hazardous and Confidential Waste Collection ServicesRefuse and waste related services | Awarded / complete | 11 Mar 2026 | £1,140,000 |
| RFI - TRAIN OPERATIONS OPTIMISATION AND PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT SUITEIndustry specific software package | Planning | 9 Mar 2026 | — |
| First Greater Western Limited Contract for Maintenance and Support of Automatic Passenger Gate Systems | Awarded / complete | 27 Feb 2026 | — |
| Provision of Services relating to Non-hazardous waste removal and waste segregation servicesNon-hazardous refuse and waste treatment and disposal services | Awarded / complete | 4 Sept 2025 | £10,490,626 |
| Property Projects Consultancy FrameworkArchitectural and related services | Awarded / complete | 6 Aug 2025 | £7,200,000 |
| GWR - Provision of Maintenance & Support for Ticket Vending Machines | Awarded / complete | 22 May 2025 | — |
| First Group Mobile Telephony, Services and DevicesMobile-telephone services | Open | 12 Feb 2025 | — |
| First Group IT Hardware ServicesOffice and computing machinery | Open | 7 Feb 2025 | — |
| First Group Service Desk Managed Service Procurement TenderTransport services (excl. Waste transport) | Open | 4 Dec 2024 | — |
| First Rail Travel Disruption Information ServicesTransport services (excl. Waste transport) | Awarded / complete | 28 Oct 2024 | — |
| Provision of Labour Services for the GWR Class 387 Door Maintenance activitiesRepair and maintenance services | Awarded / complete | 23 Sept 2024 | — |
| First Rail Travel Disruption Information ServicesTransport services (excl. Waste transport) | Planned | 13 Sept 2024 | — |
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- One profile per authority. Different spellings and registration numbers of the same body are merged into this profile. It includes tenders the authority ran for other bodies and tenders run on its behalf; spend is credited to the body that pays.
- Values are published values. Award values are what the authority published, excluding VAT and framework ceilings. They are not a budget or total spend.
- Contract end dates. 2 of 48 published contracts state an end date; those feed “Contracts ending”.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.