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NorTMS External Audit

Buyer: Transport for the North →

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BuyerTransport for the North
StatusClosed
Deadline16 Jun 2025
Value£50,000
Published22 May 2025

What is being bought

Transport for the North (TfN) wishes to appoint a supplier to undertake a full audit of all the model inputs and outputs in the Northern Transport Modelling System (NorTMS) and to provide an audit report with recommendations for areas requiring improvement. The supplier must be an expert CUBE model reviewer with competent Python skills as some elements of NorTMS are coded in Python, and who has not worked with NorTMS or related to any TfN framework directly involved in NorTMS. For more information about this opportunity, please visit the Delta eSourcing portal at: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-Manchester:-Technical-analysis-or-consultancy-services./9Q2M5G96B6 To respond to this opportunity, please click here: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/9Q2M5G96B6

Delivery location

UKD3, GB

Categories

Technical analysis or consultancy services 71621000

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusactive
Value£50,000
Contract periodFrom 13 Jul 2025 to 7 Nov 2025
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

Award criteria
Expertise and experience — Long criteria description (35%)
Approach to auditing — Long criteria description (30%)
Deliverables — Long criteria description (10%)
Decarbonisation — Long criteria description (5%)
Price — Long criteria description (20%)

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Technical analysis or consultancy servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 71. The category anchor is Technical analysis or consultancy services (71621000); 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 7110,1215 median · 30 average (4,042 of 10,121 with a bid count)4.2 average (4,448 of 10,121 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer3Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UKD3634 median · 82 average (22 of 63 with a bid count)7.3 average (24 of 63 with named award suppliers)Not published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)4014 median · 4 average (1 of 401 with a bid count)1 average (1 of 401 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.

Source data inventory

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

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-051dcb
Latest release ID024862-2025
Latest release timestampThu May 22 2025 12:49:42 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLhttps://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/024862-2025
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsBelow threshold - open competition
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNo
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: end2025-06-16T12:00:00Z
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadline2025-06-06T12:00:00Z
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailsSubmissions are to be uploaded on the Delta e-sourcing portal as described in the tender documents https://www.delta-esourcing.com
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£50,000
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source2
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
22 May 2025tender024862-2025

All source data

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

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Complete JSON history (1 releases)
22 May 2025 · 024862-2025 · tender
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