ScotRail Trains Ltd: UK public procurement profile
Scotland·Glasgow·Central purchasing body on 35 of 88 notices
Find a Tender organisation id67847Websitescotrail.co.uk ↗
Open now0no live noticesNotices, last 12 months56+75% vs prior 12 months (32)Typical bids per notice325% single-bid · 8 bid reportsTop-3 supplier share17%of 54 awarded procedures · 48 suppliersPublished award value, 24m£1.6bnon 13 of 54 single-supplier awards · top 5 = 75%
What they buy
Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each
34 Transport equipment and products28 procedures · 32%50 Repair and maintenance services24 procedures · 27%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting11 procedures · 13%71 Architectural, construction, engineering8 procedures · 9%90 Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental8 procedures · 9%48 Software package and information systems6 procedures · 7%09 Petroleum, coal, oil and gas5 procedures · 6%31 Electrical machinery4 procedures · 5%How they buy
Last 24 months · 88 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim
Commercial tool
- Contract 92% (81 notices)
- Framework 8% (7 notices)
Procedure route
- Selective 53% (47 notices)
- Limited / restricted 28% (25 notices)
- Route not published 17% (15 notices)
- Open 1% (1 notices)
Typical bids per notice3robust · n=8Median of published bid reports · 25% of reports show a single bidder. Includes framework and DPS notices.
Notice amendments1Median amendments per notice · 52 of 88 notices amended.
Who wins here
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eversholt Rail | 4 | 7.4% | 4 | 4 | 28 Jul 2026 |
| Hitachi Rail Europe | 3 | 5.6% | 3 | 4 | 18 Feb 2026 |
| Porterbrook | 2 | 3.7% | 2 | 4 | 22 May 2026 |
| Vix Technology Limited | 2 | 3.7% | 2 | 3 | 8 Apr 2026 |
| SIEMENS MOBILITY LIMITED | 2 | 3.7% | 2 | 3 | 25 Apr 2025 |
| Highland Fuels Ltd | 2 | 3.7% | 2 | 2 | 27 Feb 2026 |
| Corona Energy Limited | 2 | 3.7% | 0 | 3 | 30 Mar 2023 |
| Angel Trains Ltd | 1 | 1.9% | 1 | 2 | 22 May 2026 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 17% of 54 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 48 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards — not a statement of preference.
Published award value (24m)£1.6bnSum of published values on 13 of 54 single-supplier awards; the five largest make 75%. Not spend and not a budget: notices sometimes republish a framework total or a mis-scaled figure — the largest rows are listed below so you can check.
Typical single-supplier award (24m)£77m medianrobust · n=13Middle half £55m–£168m.
| Largest published awards | Supplier | Awarded | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Class 170 Rolling Stock Lease | Porterbrook | — | £421,700,000 † |
| Class 170 Rolling Stock Lease | Porterbrook | — | £265,700,000 † |
| Train Services Agreement relating to the maintenance of Class 385 Train Units | Hitachi Rail Europe | — | £205,276,708 † |
| Class 158 Rolling Stock Lease | Porterbrook | — | £168,400,000 † |
| Class 156 Rolling Stock Lease | Angel Trains Ltd | — | £138,200,000 † |
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 111 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| SR785 Unexplained Delay Software SolutionAviation ground support and test software package | Open | 4 Feb 2026 | — |
| Class 156 Life Extension – RETB (Radio Electronic Token Block) Data LoggersElectrical signalling equipment for railways | Awarded / complete | 14 Jan 2026 | — |
| IT Software to Support the Management of Unplanned Disruption on Scotland’s Rail NetworkIndustry specific software package | Awarded / complete | 7 Jan 2026 | — |
| ScotRail Finance and Payroll ServicesAccounting services | Open | 18 Dec 2025 | — |
| Train Consumable Parts - Standard & FlexitorRailway and tramway locomotives and rolling stock and associated parts | Open | 12 Dec 2025 | £2,200,000 |
| ScotRail Loyalty Partner - Market EngagementCustomer-loyalty programme | Planned | 11 Dec 2025 | — |
| ScotRail Customer Contact CentreCall centre | Awarded / complete | 14 Nov 2025 | — |
| ScotRail suburban fleet (EMU and BEMU) procurementParts of railway or tramway locomotives or rolling stock; railways traffic-control equipment | Open | 5 Nov 2025 | — |
| SDWAN Network ConnectivityNetwork equipment | Awarded / complete | 31 Oct 2025 | — |
| HVAC Support ServicesRepair | Open | 31 Oct 2025 | £600,000 |
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 (£185m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 84 award records on 51 procedures (54 to a single canonical supplier, 1 multi-supplier, 29 with no supplier published). Typical award uses single-supplier GBP values below £5bn, excludes framework/DPS ceilings and — as a heuristic for republished framework totals — any amount repeated three or more times inside this authority’s 24-month awards; 13 values come from the contract record when the award carried none.
- Bid counts, deadline-to-award and amendments come from the nightly buyer analytics row (v8, award-identity grain). Evidence tiers: robust ≥5, moderate 3–4, indicative 1–2.
- Contract end dates: 0 of 110 published contracts carry a period end; 0 end within 18 months, 0 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (15 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)
Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.
Canonical page id: GB-FTS-67847