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ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-032f2d"
title: "Cable Car - Operate and Maintain"
url: "https://tenderline.uk/tenders/cable-car-operate-and-maintain-ocds-h6vhtk-032f2d"
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# Cable Car - Operate and Maintain

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/cable-car-operate-and-maintain-ocds-h6vhtk-032f2d). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Notice summary:** TfL is seeking information from the potential suppliers in the various markets delivering services similar to those required to operate and maintain the Cable Car. Interested suppliers will be able to view and response to the Market Sounding Questionnaire (MSQ).

## Key Information
- **Status:** PLANNED (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [Transport for London](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/transport-for-london-coh-01900907)
- **Planned Pipeline Value:** £30,000,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 9 May 2022 at 01:00 BST
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Not published
- **Main Category:** goods
- **Classifications (CPV):** Transport equipment and auxiliary products to transportation
- **Delivery Location:** UK
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0025
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-032f2d`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/cable-car-operate-and-maintain-ocds-h6vhtk-032f2d#tl-md)

## Description
TfL is seeking information from the potential suppliers in the various markets delivering services similar to those required to operate and maintain the Cable Car.
Interested suppliers will be able to view and response to the Market Sounding Questionnaire (MSQ). TfL is issuing this PIN to invite responses from the market, with a view to understanding how the procurement may be structured to suit market capability. This PIN and MSQ form a standalone exercise intended to inform TfL as described above. As such, it does not form part of any procurement process. This MSQ should not be read as committing TfL to carrying out a procurement process. TfL reserves the right but is not obliged to carry out a procurement process in the future. If TfL were to decide to hold a procurement process.
For the avoidance of doubt, if TfL carry out a procurement process, any responses to this
MSQ will not be considered as part of any pre-qualification or tender stage.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** planned

- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Description:** The London Cable Car (Emirates Air-Line) is a cableway system that opened in 2012 to support people travelling across the River Thames. There are two terminals: North Terminal which is situated at the Royal Docks in Newham and the South Terminal whic...

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F010383-2022)
- **Last Source Update:** 2022-04-21T13:38:57.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-11-04T18:58:30.006Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-032f2d