Transport for Wales (TFW): Contract Register & Procurement Profile
Other public body·Wales (Cymru)·Pontypridd·Central purchasing body on 16 of 60 notices
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Open now0no live noticesNotices, last 12 months42+133% vs prior 12 months (18)Typical bids per notice321.4% single-bid · 28 bid reportsTop-3 supplier share10%of 63 awarded procedures · 99 suppliersContracts ending ≤18 months103 within 6 monthsPublished award value, 24m£88mnet · on 43 of 46 single-supplier awards · top 5 = 74%
What they buy
Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each
79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting11 procedures · 18%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet8 procedures · 13%45 Construction work7 procedures · 12%34 Transport equipment and products4 procedures · 7%48 Software package and information systems4 procedures · 7%50 Repair and maintenance services4 procedures · 7%71 Architectural, construction, engineering4 procedures · 7%15 Food, drink, tobacco2 procedures · 3%How they buy
Last 24 months · 60 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim
Commercial tool
- Contract 93% (56 notices)
- Framework 7% (4 notices)
Procedure route
- Open 45% (27 notices)
- Direct award 30% (18 notices)
- Limited / restricted 10% (6 notices)
- Route not published 10% (6 notices)
- Selective 5% (3 notices)
Typical bids per notice3robust · n=28Median of published bid counts per lot on contested notices · 21.4% of lots drew a single bid. Direct awards are left out; framework and DPS lots are included.
Deadline → award43 daysrobust · n=8Median days from submission deadline to first award notice.
Notice amendments1Median amendments per notice · 31 of 60 notices amended.
Award vs estimate6.5% below estimaterobust · n=13Median (estimate − award) / estimate on single-supplier GBP pairs per lot, same VAT basis on both sides; vehicles excluded. Negative = awarded above estimate.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VERIFILE LIMITED | 2 | 3.2% | 2 | 2 | 18 Feb 2026 |
| PSI Group Ltd | 2 | 3.2% | 2 | 2 | 30 Jan 2026 |
| RICARDO RAIL LIMITED | 2 | 3.2% | 1 | 2 | 26 Mar 2026 |
| Uned Studio | 2 | 3.2% | 1 | 2 | 14 Jul 2026 |
| EVENERGI UK LTD | 2 | 3.2% | 1 | 2 | 27 Jul 2026 |
| BCM Construction | 2 | 3.2% | 0 | 2 | 28 Jul 2022 |
| Amalgamated Construction Ltd T/A AmcoGiffen | 2 | 3.2% | 0 | 2 | 28 Jul 2022 |
| CELTIC TRAVEL (LLANIDLOES) LIMITED | 1 | 1.6% | 1 | 4 | 26 May 2026 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 10% of 63 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 99 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards — not a statement of preference.
Published award value (24m)£88mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 43 of 46 single-supplier awards; the five largest make 74%; a further 1 published a VAT-inclusive amount only (£202k inc. VAT, kept apart). 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)£266k medianrobust · n=43Middle half £94k–£1.1m.
| Largest published awards | Supplier | Awarded | Term | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVL Transformation - Rhymney Valley Line Electrification | Seilwaith Amey Cymru / Amey Infrastructure Wales Limited | — | — | £33,000,000 † |
| TrawsCymru T5 Bus Operator Services | Richards Bros | — | — | £14,034,777 † |
| Lot 1 – 3 x Brecon based vehicle workings | CELTIC TRAVEL (LLANIDLOES) LIMITED | — | — | £7,145,547 † |
| Strategic Brand Guardianship | Uned Studio | — | 4 yrs | £6,000,000 † ≈ £1.5m/yr |
| Corporate Travel Portal - Transport for Wales | INNTEL LIMITED | — | — | £5,000,000 † |
Contracts ending
Published end dates only · 24 of 79 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| D365 Project Transformation Manager | WeDo Technology Solutions Ltd | 30 Sept 2026 | £88,200 |
| EV Rally 2026 | PSI Group Ltd | 30 Oct 2026 | £45,000 |
| C001195.00 - Provision of Bus Refurbishment Services | Edwards Coaches | 16 Nov 2026 | £500,000 |
| FOM Programme Management Support | WCL Infrastructure Limited | 30 Mar 2027 | £556,446 |
| Rail Major Incident Command Training and Exercising | Serco Ltd | 31 Mar 2027 | £75,567 |
| C001348.00 - TfW Coach Purchase | Volvo Bus Corporation | 31 Mar 2027 | £2,263,274 |
| Core Valley Lines (CVL) Transformation: Complex track works with associated level boarding works | Amey Infrastructure Wales (AIW), Amey Infrastructure Wales (AIW) | 31 Aug 2027 | £9,800,000 |
| Your Bus Journey Survey 2026/27 | Transport Focus | 31 Aug 2027 | £124,980 |
| New Board portal software | ADMINCONTROL AS | 5 Nov 2027 | £16,000 |
| Youth Advisory Panel | Children in Wales | 15 Mar 2028 | £119,980 |
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 90 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
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 (£433m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 47 award records on 44 procedures (46 to a single canonical supplier, 1 multi-supplier). Typical award uses single-supplier VAT-exclusive 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; 30 values come from the contract record when the award carried none; 1 awards published only a VAT-inclusive amount and are counted but not valued.
- Bid counts (per lot, contested notices only, PA 2023 final-stage tenders where published), 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: 24 of 79 published contracts carry a period end; 10 end within 18 months, 3 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
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Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.
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