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BuyerMERSEYRAIL ELECTRICS 2002 LIMITED
StatusClosed
Deadline22 Oct 2025
Value£150,000
Published3 Jun 2025

What is being bought

Merseyrail 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.

Delivery location

UKD, GB

Categories

Mobile-telephone services 64212000

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusactive
Value£150,000
Contract periodFrom 6 Jul 2026 to 5 Jul 2028

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Mobile-telephone servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 64. The category anchor is Mobile-telephone services (64212000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 641,3393 median · 18.9 average (416 of 1,339 with a bid count)2.3 average (501 of 1,339 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer0Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UKD461 median · 5.5 average (21 of 46 with a bid count)1.2 average (22 of 46 with named award suppliers)Not published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)631 median · 1 average (1 of 63 with a bid count)1 average (1 of 63 with named award suppliers)Not published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byNot published
Submission policyallowed
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-052b81
Latest release ID029503-2025
Latest release timestampTue Jun 03 2025 12:31:18 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLhttps://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/029503-2025
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsBelow threshold - open competition
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNo
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: end2025-10-22T12:00:00+01:00
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadline2025-07-02T12:00:00+01:00
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailsThe procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge, at: https://me-2-procure.org/ Requests to participate must be submitted electronically via: https://me-2-procure.org/MerseyrailElectrics/DisplayModules/TradeModules/Negotiations/Opportunities/ViewOpportunityEvent.aspx?EventID=552&Culture=en-GB
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£150,000
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source1
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
3 Jun 2025tender029503-2025

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

Complete current OCDS release JSON
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Complete JSON history (1 releases)
3 Jun 2025 · 029503-2025 · tender
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