Official UK procurement notice
Communications, CCTV, Access Control and Security Systems (maintenance and works)
Authority: Transport for London (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionPlanned and reactive maintenance of CCTV, access control, security systems, SCADA, passenger call point, public address and other communications systems across London Underground (LU) and other business units within TfL. Limited supply to additional assets or capital project upgrades also in scope.
CPV: Repair and maintenance services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Transport for London buys Repair and maintenance services (CPV 50), and who usually turns up
Transport for London’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Repair and maintenance services (CPV 50) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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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.
Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in Greater London.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside the region where that award was delivered.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 99 days of the bid deadline.
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.
Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.
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.
1 bid30% / 13%
2–360% / 34%
4–60% / 22%
7+10% / 31%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate48% / 28%
Within ±2%32% / 51%
Above estimate20% / 22%
Assess each lot i
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.
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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 50Estimate not published
This lot lists more than one class in CPV 50. The comparison uses that group.
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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 149 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid13%
2–334%
4–622%
7+31%
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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.
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.
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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.
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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
- Below threshold
- Regulatory regime
- Utilities
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 21 May 2025, 15:14 BST
- Last source update
- 23 Sept 2026, 11:11 BST
- Authority reference
WS2524586734- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-090020- Latest notice
- Pipeline notice (UK1)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-051b5aFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
21 May 2025 → 13 Sept 2028 · 5 dates- Planning notice published21 May 2025, 15:14 BST
- Latest notice published34 days ago23 Sept 2026, 11:11 BST
- Market engagement11 days ago17 Oct 2026, 00:59 BST
Transport for London (TfL) is issuing a preliminary market engagement notice to obtain market feedback in relation to Communications, CCTV, and Security Systems Maintenance by issuing a Market Sounding Questionnaire (MSQ).
The primary focus of the MSQ is to better understand the market, supplier appetite, capacity, and capability, as well as perceived risks and opportunities. The engagement will also provide feedback and help to develop the tender documentation.
TfL invites suppliers to participate in this Preliminary Market Engagement exercise by completing an MSQ. All feedback received will be treated confidentially and will help to shape the upcoming procurement opportunity.
Information on the engagement process and the procurement can be found in MSQ documents which will be emailed to interested suppliers.
The engagement process consists of the following key steps:
- Registering Interest - Suppliers who wish to participate should express their interest by emailing [email protected] and quoting ‘Communications, CCTV and Security Systems Maintenance – Registering MSQ interest’.
- TfL will host an online presentation for suppliers interested in the procurement process. We envisage this taking place week commencing 5th October. All suppliers who express an interest will be issued an invite to this session. Please advise of your attendees and their contact details in your initial email registering an interest.
3.Review and complete the MSQ document.
4.Email the completed MSQ document back to [email protected] in an MS Word format before the deadline of 17:00 on 16th October 2026
- Following review of the MSQ responses we will be looking to have one to one discussions with suppliers to discuss their responses further. We envisage sessions taking place week commencing 26th October or week commencing 2nd November, and these sessions will be arranged in due course.
TfL reserve the right to carry our further market engagement in addition to the steps outlined above.
If you have any questions about the process, please do not hesitate to get in touch with Jessica Openshaw via [email protected]
We look forward to hearing from you.
- Today28 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 238 days23 Jun 2027, 23:59 BST
- Contract starts13 Sept 2028, 00:00 BST
Notice history
6 events · 6 releases on Find a Tender · since 21 May 2025- Pipeline notice published21 May 2025, 15:14 BSTUK1
- Pipeline notice published3 Jun 2025, 12:13 BSTUK1
- Pipeline notice published11 Mar 2026, 15:54 GMTUK1
- Preliminary market engagement notice published22 Sept 2026, 12:35 BSTUK2
- Pipeline notice published23 Sept 2026, 11:06 BSTUK1
- Pipeline notice published23 Sept 2026, 11:11 BSTUK1
Published amendments (2)
The notice was updated in March 2026 to revise the contact email address, confirm the location of works as London, revise the estimate contract start and end dates and estimate tender notice date.
Update to the estimated contract start and end dates, and estimate date for the release of the tender.
Routine re-releases (6)
- 2026-03: 1 release · 11 Mar 2026
- 2025-06: 1 release · 3 Jun 2025
- 2025-05: 1 release · 21 May 2025
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
Official documents & specifications (6)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender