Official UK procurement notice
Mobile Phone Services · UK public procurement notice
Authority: MERSEYRAIL ELECTRICS 2002 LIMITED (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionMerseyrail Electrics 2002 Ltd. is seeking to partner with a competent and proven Supplier to provide Mobile Phone and Data Services across all MEL sites and the surrounding Merseyside region.
Suppliers will be asked to provide a proposal for sim only with unlimited call minutes and texts as well as a data pool allowance which will then be distributed across all the handsets, with a priced option for the supply of hardware.
The opportunity will be let for 24 (twenty-four) Months with options to extend on a rolling monthly basis.
CPV: Mobile-telephone services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1RenewalPublished value£150,000
What 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).
Lot awarding rule: The anticipated criteria and weightings for the Tender process is as below, this will be confirmed within the Tender documentation: PSQ: Confidentiality Agreement - Mandatory Pass/Fail Company Information - For Information Only Mandatory Exclusion Grounds - Pass / Fail Discretionary Exclusion Grounds - Discretionary Pass / Fail Experience / Capability - 70% Financial / Risk - 30% Legal Declaration - Mandatory Pass / Fail ITT: Quality (General / Technical) - 60% Commercial & Contract - 40% Where questions are to be scored by more than one evaluator, an average of all evaluator scores will be taken and used as a final score, rounded to the nearest whole number. The total score for each Bidder shall be ranked in descending order.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Below threshold - open competition
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Closed
- Procurement threshold
- Below threshold
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 3 Jun 2025, 13:31 BST
- Last source update
- 3 Jun 2025, 13:31 BST
- Authority reference
MEL01-2025- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-029503- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-052b81Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 22 Oct 2025, 12:00 BST
- Clarification deadline
- 2 Jul 2025, 12:00 BST
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge, at:
Requests to participate must be submitted electronically via:
Timeline
3 Jun 2025 → 6 Jul 2026 · 4 dates- Tender notice published3 Jun 2025, 13:31 BST
- Clarification questions by2 Jul 2025, 12:00 BST
- Submission deadline368 days ago22 Oct 2025, 12:00 BST
- Contract starts111 days ago6 Jul 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published3 Jun 2025, 13:31 BSTUK4
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender