FIRST RAIL HOLDINGS LIMITED: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

Companies House: Private Limited CompanyGreater LondonLondonRan 9 procurements for other authorities

Companies House05154485 ↗Websitefirstgroupplc.com ↗

Open now1next deadline 9 Nov 2026
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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.

Notices, last 12 months3-40% vs prior 12 months (5)
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Notices published in the last 12 months.

Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.

Published award value, 24m£50mnet · on 4 of 4 published values · top 5 = 100%
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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

NoticeDeadlineDays leftPublished value
Carpark management services and ANPR installationprocuring entity9 Nov 202620d£7,000,000

What they buy
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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

How they buy
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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

Commercial tool
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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%).
Procedure route
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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%).
Typical bids per lot
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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.

Last 24 months, all categories.

2.5indicative · n=250% of lots drew a single bid
Notice amendments
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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.

Last 24 months.

01 of 8 notices amended
Award vs estimate
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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.

Last 24 months.

0% at estimatemoderate · n=4

Who wins here
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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

SupplierProceduresShareLast 24mAward recordsLast activity
Cubic Transportation Systems Limited,233.3%225 May 2026
SIGNATURE RAIL LIMITED116.7%1115 Jul 2026
SCHEIDT & BACHMANN (UK) LIMITED116.7%1122 May 2025
Nexus Alpha Ltd116.7%01—
Integral UK Ltd116.7%01—

6 awarded procedures across 5 suppliers: too few to describe concentration.

Published award value (24m)
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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.

£50mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 4 of 4 published single-supplier values; the five largest make 100%.
Typical single-supplier award (24m)
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The middle published award value for this buyer.

Middle value of the same awards as the total above.

Last 24 months.

£12m middle valuemoderate · n=4Middle half £4.9m–£20m.
Largest published awards
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The 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.

SupplierAwardedTermPublished value
First Greater Western Limited Contract for Maintenance and Support of Automatic Passenger Gate SystemsCubic 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 SystemsCubic Transportation Systems Limited,—6 yrs · up to 8 yrs£18,258,322
≈ £3.0m/yr
GWR - Provision of Maintenance & Support for Ticket Vending MachinesSCHEIDT & BACHMANN (UK) LIMITED—3 yrs£6,000,000
≈ £2.0m/yr
FRH - AWC Train Planning Software & Services TenderSIGNATURE RAIL LIMITED15 Jul 20265 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

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
Provision of cash in transit servicescentral purchasing body3 lotsFinancial and insurance servicesAwarded / complete14 Aug 2024£589,545
Provision of Services relating to the removal of Hygiene Waste (Washroom Services)Hygiene servicesOpen2 Aug 2024£1,390,764
Automated Ticket Gate (ATG) for GWR Procurement TenderTransport services (excl. Waste transport)Open26 Jun 2024—
Framework Agreement for the provision of Filters and Hoses for GWR and SWR.Framework2 lotsAutomotive elementsOpen5 Jun 2024£2,500,000
First Rail, SWR & GWR Ticket Issuing Systems (TIS) for On Board and Ticket Office Solutions Procurement Tender4 lotsTransport services (excl. Waste transport)Open30 May 2024—
Provision of Taxi Management Services to First Rail Holdings TOCs3 lotsTaxi servicesOpen24 May 2024£22,600,000
Leased Ancillary Vehicles and Fuel Card Management4 lotsAgency fuel cardsOpen15 May 2024£11,591,600
Provision of Train Catering Services (Avanti and TransPennine Express)3 lotsBeveragesCancelled13 Mar 2024£119,600,000
First Rail, SWR & GWR Ticket Issuing System (TIS) ProcurementTransport services (excl. Waste transport)Open29 Jan 2024—
First Rail RSPS/UK rail accredited WebTIS solutionTransport services (excl. Waste transport)Open21 Dec 2023£21,000,000
Media Strategy, Planning and Buying ServicesAdvertising and marketing servicesOpen18 Dec 2023£53,700,000
Tram Cleaning Services - Tram Operations LimitedCleaning servicesOpen15 Dec 2023£4,860,000
Bulk Fuel Supply and Deliverycentral purchasing body3 lotsFuelsOpen20 Nov 2023£50,000,000
Provision of PPE, Consumables and Janitorial SuppliesCleaning productsAwarded / complete1 Nov 2023£18,000,000
Train Cleaning Services2 lotsCleaning servicesOpen26 Sept 2023£54,592,698
Provision of Depot Track Maintenance Services for South Western Railway DepotsRepair and maintenance servicesOpen20 Sept 2023£700,000
Provision of Estate Management ServicesReal estate servicesAwarded / complete30 Jun 2023£2,000,000
First Rail Customer App Development ProcurementTransport services (excl. Waste transport)Open25 May 2023£4,700,000
Design & Supply of material (excludes installation) to enable the fitment of Single Variable Rate Sanding Equipment to 10 x Class 158 Units and 29 x Class 159 Units2 lotsRailway and tramway locomotives and rolling stock and associated partsAwarded / complete27 Feb 2023—
TPE - Overhaul of Class 397 Electric Multiple Units (EMU)Installation services (except software)Cancelled24 Feb 2023—

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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.