Official UK procurement notice
Financial Forecasting & Planning Solution
Authority: Transpennine Trains Limited (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionTransPennine Trains Limited (TPT) is exploring options to enhance its financial forecasting and planning capability, with a view to potentially procuring a solution and/or associated services. The current environment comprises multiple systems and spreadsheet-based processes, resulting in fragmented data, manual consolidation, and limitations in scenario modelling, governance and integration.
TPT is seeking to understand how the market could support improved integration across finance and operational systems, alongside enhanced budgeting, forecasting, planning and reporting capabilities. Any future requirement is expected to include driver-based modelling, improved data integration, and strengthened workflow, version control and audit functionality, as well as more accessible reporting and increased agility in supporting rolling forecasts.
TPT is not prescribing a specific solution model at this stage and may consider a range of approaches, including platform solutions, enhancement of existing systems, modular or phased delivery, or service-led / hybrid models. The outcome of this process will inform any potential future procurement and the scope of any subsequent requirement.
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The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Transpennine Trains Limited buys Consultative engineering and construction services (CPV 7131), and who usually turns up
Transpennine Trains Limited’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Consultative engineering and construction services (CPV 7131) →
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.
Here, local means registered in North West England.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside North West England.
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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.
Half of these awards were announced within 44 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.
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.
1 bid0% / 24%
2–380% / 13%
4–620% / 20%
7+0% / 43%
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 estimate41%
Within ±2%38%
Above estimate21%
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 7131No real estimate
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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 46 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid24%
2–313%
4–620%
7+43%
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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
- Goods
- 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
- 26 May 2026, 10:34 BST
- Last source update
- 26 May 2026, 10:34 BST
- Authority reference
TPT679- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-048494- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06a2d6Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
26 May 2026 → 1 Aug 2026 · 3 dates- Planning notice published148 days ago26 May 2026, 10:34 BST
- Market engagement139 days ago3 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST
TransPennine Trains Limited (TPT) is undertaking a pre-market engagement exercise to inform the potential procurement of a financial forecasting and planning solution and/or associated services. The engagement will consist of a structured request for information, followed by optional supplier presentations and clarification discussions.
Suppliers are invited to submit responses outlining their proposed approach, capabilities, delivery models and indicative commercial structures. TPT may invite a subset of respondents to participate in follow-up engagement, including solution demonstrations, workshops and clarification sessions to explore proposed approaches in more detail.
Supplier presentations are anticipated to take place on 5th and 12th June 2026 at TransPennine Trains Limited offices in Manchester and via Microsoft Teams. Further engagement activities may be scheduled as required. Participation in any engagement activity is by invitation only and subject to appropriate confidentiality arrangements.
The purpose of this engagement is to support TPT’s understanding of available solutions, validate assumptions and inform the scope, delivery approach and route to market for any potential future procurement. Participation in this engagement, or a decision not to participate, will not influence or prejudice any organisation’s ability to participate in, or be successful in, any subsequent procurement process.
- Contract starts81 days ago1 Aug 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published26 May 2026, 10:34 BSTUK2
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 (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender