Official UK procurement notice
PIN for ScotRail's Facilities Management Services
Authority: ScotRail Trains Limited
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionScotRail will be tendering for Hard and Soft Facilities Management Services and are issuing this Periodic Indicative Notice (PIN) to engage with and provide an update to suppliers on our tender strategy.
CPV: Building and facilities management services · Building installation work · Cleaning and sanitation services · Cleaning services · Facilities management services · Grounds maintenance services · Laundry-collection services · Mechanical and electrical engineering services · Miscellaneous fabricated products and related items · Miscellaneous repair and maintenance services · Repair and maintenance of plant · Repair and maintenance services · +4 more
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1ScotRail manage circa 360 staffed and unstaffed stations and 12 depot and train…Planned
ScotRail manage circa 360 staffed and unstaffed stations and 12 depot and train servicing locations across Scotland and are looking to tender for our facilities management services to ensure that buildings and facilities are operating efficiently, safely, and in compliance with regulations.
In March 2025, ScotRail issued a Periodic Indicative Notice (PIN) to engage with the market for the procurement of Hard and Soft FM services. The purpose of this PIN is to provide an update on our strategy for Hard and Soft activities and seek further engagement with the market before issuing the tenders.
Interested parties are asked to complete some market engagement questions on the Wax Portal, where you can find further information on the proposed updates and a market engagement session:
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How ScotRail Trains Limited buys Miscellaneous business-related services (CPV 7999), and who usually turns up
ScotRail Trains Limited’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Miscellaneous business-related services (CPV 7999) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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.
Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
i
How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
Here, local means registered in Scotland.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside Scotland.
i
How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards were announced within 64 days of the bid deadline.
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.
Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.
How many bids did past lots attract?
i
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 bid40% / 14%
2–340% / 21%
4–60% / 4%
7+20% / 61%
How did awards compare with estimates?
i
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 estimate71%
Within ±2%29%
Above estimate0%
Assess each lot i
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.
i
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 #1ScotRail manage circa 360 staffed and unstaffed stations and 12 depot and train…CPV 7999Estimate not published
i
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 28 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid14%
2–321%
4–64%
7+61%
i
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.
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.
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 · publisher note attached- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0025 Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016 (Directive 2014/25/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 30 Mar 2026, 10:15 BST
- Last source update
- 30 Mar 2026, 10:15 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-028906- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06775fFind a Tender
Publisher note: Further information, including information on the market engagement session, can be found on the ScotRail Wax Portal. (SC Ref:826427)
How it was run
Official noticeTender documents are also served through a separate tool: https://scotrail.wax-live.com/S2C/DisplayModules/TradeModules/Negotiations/Opportunities/ListEvents.aspx ↗
- Submission deadline
- —
Timeline
30 Mar 2026 → 2 Jun 2026 · 2 dates- Notice published205 days ago30 Mar 2026, 10:15 BST
- Tender notice expected141 days ago2 Jun 2026, 00:00 BST
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
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.