Official UK procurement notice
Intention to Use RISQS as a Dynamic Market for Cable Procurement
Authority: Transport for London (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionSummary:
This notice confirms that Transport for London intends to use the Railway Industry Supplier Qualification Scheme (RISQS) as a Qualifying Utilities Dynamic Market under Sections 34-40 of the Procurement Act 2023.
Scope of Procurement:
Procurement of 935 cable and associated components for use in rail infrastructure projects.
Dynamic Market Operator:
Rail Safety & Standards Board Ltd (RSSB)
Website: www.risqs.org ↗
Conditions for Membership:
Suppliers must be registered and qualified under RISQS for relevant product codes, including cable supply and installation.
Procurement Procedure:
Competitive flexible procedure conducted via RISQS supplier list. Only qualified suppliers were invited to tender.
Justification for Retroactive Notice:
This notice is published retrospectively due to transitional implementation of the Procurement Act 2023. The procurement was conducted in good faith using RISQS, which meets the criteria of a dynamic market.
Future Use:
Transport for London will continue to use RISQS as a dynamic market for future rail-related procurements and will ensure timely publication of notices going forward.
CPV: High-voltage cable
How this dynamic market works
From the published notice- Type
- Dynamic market · pending
- Market period
- 16 Sept 2025 – …
- Buyer types
- utilities
- Supplier levy on call-offs (max %)
- None
- Manpower Support for High Voltage Feeder Cable Renewal · Transport for London · 11 Sept 2026
- High Voltage Cable Supply · Transport for London · 10 Sept 2026
- Chancery Lane and St Pauls Water-Ingress · Transport for London · 31 Jul 2026
Notices that name this market as their framework in the official record. Many call-offs are never published, so this is a floor, not utilisation.
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedWhat it takes to wini
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 morei
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).
- “Intention to Use RISQS as a Dynamic Market for Cable Procurement” is a dynamic market: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How Transport for London buys Power distribution cables (CPV 3132), and who usually turns up
Transport for London’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: Power distribution cables (CPV 3132) →
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.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside the delivery region.
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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 109 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.
The buyer’s share is a minimum: 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 bid3%
2–319%
4–629%
7+48%
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.
On a framework or DPS, prices are agreed when work is called off.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
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.
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 3132Estimate not published
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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.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid8%
2–333%
4–639%
7+20%
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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.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vix Technology UK LtdWorked for this buyer | Procurement of Countdown3 (CD3) Servicesnotice published Apr 2025 | — | — | Similar wording and category |
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.
| Supplier | Won in this category | Live contracts | Award vs estimate |
|---|---|---|---|
| £553m16 awards in 36m · last 1 months ago | 4 live · £1.9bn iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | 30% below n=1 | |
| £82m35 awards in 36m · last 1 months ago | 21 live · £115m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=4 | |
| £17m15 awards in 36m · last 1 months ago | 5 live · £17m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | 10% below n=4 | |
Rexel UK LimitedLarge | £1.4m24 awards in 36m · last this month | 2 live · £158k iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | 6% below n=1 |
| £422k10 awards in 36m · last 3 months ago | 5 live · £418k iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | 10% below n=1 |
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- Procedure method
- Dynamic market
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Closed
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Utilities
- Commercial structure
- Dynamic market
- Who may use this agreement
- Any qualifying supplier may apply while the market is open
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 16 Sept 2025, 10:06 BST
- Last source update
- 16 Sept 2025, 10:06 BST
- Authority reference
DMN-TFL-PLU-935CABLE-RISQS-2025- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-056823- Latest notice
- Dynamic market intention notice (UK13)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-059afbFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Admission period ends
- —
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Supplier levy on call-offs (max %)
- submission fee · None
Rail Safety & Standards Board Ltd (RSSB)
Website: www.risqs.org ↗
Timeline
1 published date- Tender notice published16 Sept 2025, 10:06 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Dynamic market intention notice published16 Sept 2025, 10:06 BSTUK13
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Dynamic market intention notice Dynamic market intention notice on Find a Tender