Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 24 Oct 2025, 20:55 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Jubilee Line Train Management System, Passenger Information System and Saloon CCTV Turnkey System Replacement Project

Authority: Transport for London (Public body)

ServicesCompetitive flexible procedureAbove thresholdUtilities
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 1 Jul 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 4 yrsends 1 Aug 2031 · up to 1 Aug 2033 with extensions · starts 2 Aug 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Given the age of Jubilee line 96TS (1996 Train Stock), several systems are now experiencing obsolescence which impact the fleet's maintainability and day-to-day availability. The aspiration is for the fleet to operate, with an acceptable level of Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety (RAMS), until replacement in approximately 2045.

To address these obsolescence issues, London Underground (LU) have mobilised a project to develop and implement a sustainable solution.

A 'Make vs. Buy' analysis is required to establish the optimal means of project delivery. To date, project development has assumed and have been engaging the market, on a 'Make' scenario for the individual systems, whereby LU procures replacement systems from 3rd parties and deliver their integration across the fleet at an in-house production facility.

This Market Engagement Exercise however, seeks to assess market appetite and capability to deliver the 'Buy' scenario, where a supplier is contracted to deliver a 'Turnkey' programme of works to address all the systems of concern as provided in the scope below - which itemises the Core / Extended scope systems and their respective Preferred solution. The Preferred solutions were determined as part of an LU completed optioneering work.

CORE SCOPE

1: Train Management System (TMS), including Incident Recorder (IR) - Replacement

2: Passenger Information System (PIS) - Replacement

3: Saloon CCTV - Replacement

EXTENDED SCOPE

4: Propulsion Inverter Electronics (PIE) - Replacement

5: Saloon & Cab Fluorescent Lighting - Replacement

6: Traction Brake Controller - Obsolescence Treatment (Repair)

7: HVAC (cab and saloon) Controllers - Obsolescence Treatment (Repair)

8: De- Icer Controller - Obsolescence Treatment (Repair)

This 'Buy' option assumedly, will require the supplier to complete all aspects of the design, prototyping, manufacture, installation and testing & commissioning of the replacement systems across the fleet (in full) at their facility. Such option could be preferable to LU if the approach, costs and delivery timelines proposed by the suppliers present better value in comparison to the "Make" option and current internal estimates.

The outcome of the Early Market Engagement will output the preferred modality for project delivery, to be progressed to tender with the intention of implementing it on all of LU's 63 Jubilee Line fleet of trains.

CPV: Closed circuit television services · Passenger information system · Railway transport services · Repair, maintenance and associated services related to railways and other equipment · Rolling stock · Train monitoring services · Vehicle bodies

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published

How Transport for London buys Information systems (CPV 4881), 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: Information systems (CPV 4881) →

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How the contest usually goes

Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.

Question for the bid
This buyerTransport for London · all categories
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 29 of 229 known-size awards · market: CPV 4881 · Greater London, n=17
13%24%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

How often do local suppliers win?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 214 of 286 known-location awards · market: CPV 4881 · Greater London, n=27
75%26%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.

How long to a decision?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 29 decided notices · market: CPV 4881 · UK-wide, n=7
125 days66 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 125 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: at least 182 of 315 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 4881 · Greater London, n=26
58%54%

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer187 lots with bid counts · all categories
43% had one bid
The market7 lots with bid counts · CPV 4881 · Greater London
14% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid43% / 14%
Buyer: 81 of 187 lots with published bid counts. Market: 1 of 7 lots with published bid counts.
2–346% / 43%
Buyer: 86 of 187 lots with published bid counts. Market: 3 of 7 lots with published bid counts.
4–68% / 43%
Buyer: 15 of 187 lots with published bid counts. Market: 3 of 7 lots with published bid counts.
7+3% / 0%
Buyer: 5 of 187 lots with published bid counts. Market: 0 of 7 lots with published bid counts.

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer25 lots with estimate and award · all categories
48% below estimate
The market33 lots with estimate and award · division 48 · Greater London
61% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate48% / 61%
Buyer: 12 of 25 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 20 of 33 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%32% / 15%
Buyer: 8 of 25 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 5 of 33 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate20% / 24%
Buyer: 5 of 25 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 8 of 33 lots with an estimate and award.
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Assess each lot
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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 637148 monthsEstimate not published

This lot is listed as CPV 6371. The table above uses the notice category.

Expected competition
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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 12 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet17% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 12 similar lots
1 bid17%
2 of 12 similar past lots received 1 bid (17%).
2–367%
8 of 12 similar past lots received 2–3 (67%).
4–617%
2 of 12 similar past lots received 4–6 (17%).
7+0%
0 of 12 similar past lots received 7+ (0%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 2.5 bids.
Commercial price forecast
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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.

—Estimate not published
The buyer published no estimate for this lot, so there is nothing to forecast against. A price prediction here would be a number about a number we do not have.

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.

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.

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
Procedure method
Competitive flexible procedure
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Planned procurement
Procurement threshold
Above threshold (FTS publication)
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
24 Oct 2025, 20:55 BST
Last source update
24 Oct 2025, 21:13 BST
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-068366
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Closed circuit television servicesPassenger information systemRailway transport servicesRepair, maintenance and associated services related to railways and other equipmentRolling stockTrain monitoring servicesVehicle bodies
Delivery area
London (UKI)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05d3c0 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

24 Oct 2025 → 2 Aug 2027 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published364 days ago
    24 Oct 2025, 20:55 BST
  2. Market engagement116 days ago
    29 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST

    Based on current plan, the Early Market Engagement will potentially comprise the following stages.

    1. Distribution of Market Sounding Questionnaire (MSQ) to known and/or suppliers that indicate interest - ASAP from the publishing of this notice.
    2. Review MSQ submissions and hold technical clarification meetings with suppliers where necessary - December 2025/January 2026 (estimate).
    3. Where necessary, re-engage suppliers through further clarification engagement and hold technical clarification meetings with suppliers - January (estimate).

    Within two weeks of the release of this notice, please indicate your interest to participate in this Early Market Engagement exercise.

  3. Tender notice expected114 days ago
    1 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
  4. Today
    24 Oct 2026
  5. Contract startsin 282 days
    2 Aug 2027, 00:00 BST

Notice history

2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 24 Oct 2025
  1. Pipeline notice published
    24 Oct 2025, 20:55 BST
    UK1
  2. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    24 Oct 2025, 21:13 BST
    UK2

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

2 public bodies on the notice

London Underground Limited

Contracting authorityPublic undertaking GB-COH: 01900907 · GB-PPON: PWJB-7544-VZCL 5 Endeavour Square, London, London, E20 1JNContact email

Other public bodies

  • Transport for LondonProcess contact pointProcuring entityProcuring on behalf of subsidiary company, London Underground LimitedGB-PPON: PHMT-6197-NWNZ London, LondonContact email

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure