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title: "Contract for West Coast Partnership Rail Services. Currently operated by First Trenitalia West Coast Rail Ltd"
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# Contract for West Coast Partnership Rail Services. Currently operated by First Trenitalia West Coast Rail Ltd

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/contract-for-west-coast-partnership-rail-services-currently-operated-by-first-trenitalia-w-ocds-h6vhtk-02a139). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Department for Transport: "Contract for West Coast Partnership Rail Services. Currently operated by First Trenitalia West Coast Rail Ltd". Published status: tenderUpdate. Published Value: Value not published. Lot information not published. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** RECORDED (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [Department for Transport](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/department-for-transport-gov-d9)
- **Published Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 0
- **Procurement Method:** Not published
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Railway transport services
- **Delivery Location:** Not published
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32007R1370
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-02a139`

## 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/contract-for-west-coast-partnership-rail-services-currently-operated-by-first-trenitalia-w-ocds-h6vhtk-02a139#tl-md)

## Description
Contract for provision of long distance rail services on the UK conventional mainline rail system. They serve the key cities of London, Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, Edinburgh and Glasgow. It is envisaged the services would run between:
(a)	London Euston to Lichfield Trent Valley, Crewe, Preston and Glasgow Central;
(b)	Lichfield Trent Valley to Macclesfield and Manchester Piccadilly;
(c)	Crewe to Wilmslow and Manchester Piccadilly;
(d)	Crewe to Chester, Wrexham General and Holyhead;
(e)	Crewe to Liverpool Lime Street;
(f)	Preston to Blackpool North;
(g)	Carlisle to Edinburgh;
(h)	London Euston to Coventry, Birmingham New Street, Wolverhampton and Shrewsbury;
(i)	Wolverhampton to Stafford; and
(j)	Birmingham New Street to Wolverhampton, Stafford, Crewe and Glasgow or Edinburgh. 
There is a mixture of leisure, business and commuter  travel.  These  services  would  be similar to those currently operated  on  the  West  Coast  Partnership  franchise.  It  is envisaged that the contract would also encompass the provision of rail services on HS2 (between Old Oak Common in London and Curzon Street in Birmingham), and will also include the performance of services in relation to the planning and preparation of HS2 rail services.

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F006600-2021)
- **Last Source Update:** 2021-03-31T08:44:03.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-24T21:41:55.152Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-02a139