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)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionGiven 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 publishedPipeline 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) →
How the contest usually goes
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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 in 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 125 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 bid43% / 14%
2–346% / 43%
4–68% / 43%
7+3% / 0%
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% / 61%
Within ±2%32% / 15%
Above estimate20% / 24%
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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.
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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 6371Estimate not published
This lot is listed as CPV 6371. The table above uses the notice category.
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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.
1 bid17%
2–367%
4–617%
7+0%
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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.
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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.
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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- 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)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
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How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
24 Oct 2025 → 2 Aug 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published364 days ago24 Oct 2025, 20:55 BST
- Market engagement116 days ago29 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST
Based on current plan, the Early Market Engagement will potentially comprise the following stages.
- Distribution of Market Sounding Questionnaire (MSQ) to known and/or suppliers that indicate interest - ASAP from the publishing of this notice.
- Review MSQ submissions and hold technical clarification meetings with suppliers where necessary - December 2025/January 2026 (estimate).
- 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.
- Tender notice expected114 days ago1 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
- Today24 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 282 days2 Aug 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 24 Oct 2025- Pipeline notice published24 Oct 2025, 20:55 BSTUK1
- Preliminary market engagement notice published24 Oct 2025, 21:13 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
2 public bodies on the noticeOther public bodies
- Transport for LondonProcess contact pointProcuring entityProcuring on behalf of subsidiary company, London Underground Limited
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender