Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 12 Aug 2026, 15:20 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Body Worn Cameras Service

Authority: FIRST TRENITALIA WEST COAST RAIL LIMITED (Public body)

Framework agreementServicesAbove threshold
Planned pipeline value£1,300,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Framework period 3 yrsends 5 Dec 2029 · up to 5 Dec 2031 with extensions · starts 5 Dec 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

This is a tender to identify a strategic supplier for Body Worn Cameras services to include Hardware, support and services. The rationale behind this tender is being End-of-life estate, a colleague-safety incident, and capability gaps against the incumbent replacement is necessary, not discretionary.

This tender is utilising the Transport Technolgy Framework namely Framework RM6347. This is under Lot 5 which covers goods and services for Enforcement, security, compliance and emergency service technologies and services. Only suppliers eligible under this Framework RM6347 (Lot 5) are allowed to participate based on the PA20323 compliance.

CPV: Cameras · Hardware · Industry specific software package · Investigation and security services · Miscellaneous software package and computer systems · Security cameras

How this framework works

From the published notice
Framework period
3 yrs · up to 5 yrs from 5 Dec 2026

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 3 yrs

What it takes to win
i

How this buyer will score bids.

The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).

Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add more
What this means for your bid
  • “Body Worn Cameras Service” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.

Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published

How FIRST TRENITALIA WEST COAST RAIL LIMITED buys Surveillance and security systems and devices (CPV 3512), and who usually turns up

FIRST TRENITALIA WEST COAST RAIL LIMITED’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. This notice is a framework or DPS, so only frameworks and DPS are compared. Whole-market view: Surveillance and security systems and devices (CPV 3512) →

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How the contest usually goes

Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.

Question for the bid
This buyerFIRST TRENITALIA WEST COAST RAIL LIMITED · all categories
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
i

How often small and medium firms win.

Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.

The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 0 of 1 known-size awards · market: division 35 · Greater London, n=11
0 of 118%

No small-firm winners recorded among this authority’s published awards in this sample.

How often do local suppliers win?
i

How often local firms win similar work.

Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.

Here, local means the winner is registered in the region where that contract was delivered.

A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 0 of 1 known-location awards · market: CPV 3512 · UK-wide, n=6
0 of 10%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside Greater London.

How long to a decision?
i

How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.

Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.

Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 7 decided notices · market: CPV 3512 · UK-wide, n=5
126 days80 days

Half of these awards were announced within 126 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
i

How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.

Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.

Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: exactly 0 of 1 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 3512 · UK-wide, n=9
0 of 144%

Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.

How many bids did past lots attract?

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How many bids past lots received.

Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.

Past bids do not predict this tender.

Last 36 months.

This buyer1 lot with bid counts · all categories · too few to chart
The market20 lots with bid counts · CPV 3512 · UK-wide
0% had one bid
Market · select a colour for counts
1 bid0%
Market: 0 of 20 lots with published bid counts.
2–325%
Market: 5 of 20 lots with published bid counts.
4–630%
Market: 6 of 20 lots with published bid counts.
7+45%
Market: 9 of 20 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

i

Where winning prices landed against estimates.

Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.

On a framework or DPS, prices are agreed when work is called off.

Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.

Last 36 months.

Not comparable on a framework or DPS. The notice sets up a supplier panel and a ceiling value; what the work actually costs is agreed later, on each call-off or mini-competition, and those publish as contract notices of their own. The award-vs-estimate record of this market therefore sits on the call-offs; this page shows it on the contracts, not on the panel that frames them.

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Assess each lot
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What past awards tell you about each lot.

See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.

No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.

Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list

Lot #1CPV 351236 monthsPublished estimate£1.3m
Expected competition
i

How many bids this lot may attract.

The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.

Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative. The bar shows 17 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet18% single-bid risk
Past bids on 17 similar lots
1 bid18%
3 of 17 similar past lots received 1 bid (18%).
2–329%
5 of 17 similar past lots received 2–3 (29%).
4–618%
3 of 17 similar past lots received 4–6 (18%).
7+35%
6 of 17 similar past lots received 7+ (35%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 4 bids.
Commercial price forecast
i

Where the award price may land.

The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.

No comparable awards for this lot yet.

A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.

—Priced at call-off
On a framework or DPS the price is agreed on each call-off, so there is no award price to forecast here: the published figure is a ceiling.

Who has supplied this buyer on similar work?
i

Who has done similar work for this buyer.

Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.

A past supplier may not bid again.

No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.

Who could compete for this lot?
i

Who could compete for this lot?

Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.

None is confirmed as a bidder.

Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.

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.
  • Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
  • Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
  • 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.

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Planned procurement
Procurement threshold
Above threshold (FTS publication)
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Framework agreement
Who may use this agreement
Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
12 Aug 2026, 15:20 BST
Last source update
12 Aug 2026, 15:30 BST
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-076899
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
CamerasHardwareIndustry specific software packageInvestigation and security servicesMiscellaneous software package and computer systemsSecurity cameras
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06e2df Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Appointment period ends
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Timeline

12 Aug 2026 → 5 Dec 2026 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published70 days ago
    12 Aug 2026, 15:20 BST
  2. Market engagement56 days ago
    25 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST

    Stage 1 - Conditions for Participation :This will be the 42 suppliers from GCA Lot 5 Framework RM6347 . The Contracting authority will be sending formal tender invite to all the market suppliers in Lot 5 as Stage 1

    Stage 2 Issue of Invitation to Tender : ITT will be shared on the procurement portal with the suppliers who passed the Stage 1

    Stage 3 Tender Presentations : Presentations from the bidders

    invited to tender presentations.

  3. Today
    21 Oct 2026
  4. Contract startsin 45 days
    5 Dec 2026

Notice history

2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 12 Aug 2026
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    12 Aug 2026, 15:20 BST
    UK2
  2. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    12 Aug 2026, 15:30 BST
    UK2

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Pipeline notice
Awards (0)
No award published
Contracts (0)
No contract published
Bid statistics
No aggregate bid statistics published

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

FIRST TRENITALIA WEST COAST RAIL LIMITED

Contracting authorityPublic undertaking GB-COH: 10349442 · GB-PPON: PGLQ-8629-CMPG 8th Floor The Point, London, London, W2 1AFContact email

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure