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Planned tendering exercise for Castle Cary station Ticket Offices modernisation

Buyer: FIRST GREATER WESTERN LIMITED →

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BuyerFIRST GREATER WESTERN LIMITED
StatusClosed
Deadline29 Sept 2025
Value£625,000
Published21 Jul 2025

What is being bought

Background: Castle Cary railway station is a key transport hub in Somerset, connecting the town and surrounding rural areas to London, Exeter, and Plymouth via the Great Western Main Line. The project is in GWR's programme for design and delivery within this fiscal year 2025. Despite its small size, the station provides essential amenities including a ticket office, waiting shelters, cycle storage, and parking to both the east and west. The existing station building has historical heritage value and is in need of refurbishment to support future passenger growth, improve staff facilities and align with GWR's customer experience standards. The project has recently completed PACE 1 (ES1-ES3) and is currently progressing through PACE 2 (ES4). This Procurement sets out the requirement to appoint a contractor to deliver works from PACE 2 (ES5) through to the end of PACE 4 (ES8) under a JCT Intermediate Works Contract with contractor design responsibility. The scope of works includes a heritage sensitive internal refurbishment of the ticket office building that needs to:- • Enhance ergonomics, • Improve staff working conditions, • Elevate customer experience, and • Optimise station operations. Contract Type: PACE ES5 to ES8 Construction works: JCT Intermediate Works Contract with Design & Build

Delivery location

UKK, GB

Categories

Site preparation work 45100000Works for complete or part construction and civil engineering work 45200000Building installation work 45300000Building completion work 45400000Repair and maintenance services of building installations 50700000Construction supervision services 71520000Construction consultancy services 71530000Construction management services 71540000

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusactive
Value£625,000
Contract periodFrom 3 Nov 2025 to 27 Feb 2026
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

Award criteria
Quality/ Technical — Submit tenders that include showing their experience working on similar projects. Evaluation will include technical competence and experience. (55%)
Contract acceptance with no/ minimal amendments — JCT IDB Contract acceptance with no/ minimal amendments (5%)
Price — Pricing methodology to be further set up for commercial response document (40%)

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Site preparation work, Works for complete or part construction and civil engineering work, Building installation work, Building completion work, Repair and maintenance services of building installations, Construction supervision services, Construction consultancy services, Construction management servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 45. The category anchor is Site preparation work (45100000); 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 459,2234 median · 24.8 average (2,113 of 9,223 with a bid count)3.7 average (2,322 of 9,223 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer4Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UKK7303 median · 56.9 average (125 of 730 with a bid count)5.6 average (131 of 730 with named award suppliers)Not published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)7494 median · 6.7 average (6 of 749 with a bid count)1.7 average (6 of 749 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 regimeutilities
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-05634a
Latest release ID041778-2025
Latest release timestampMon Jul 21 2025 15:43:23 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLhttps://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/041778-2025
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsOpen procedure
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdYes
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: end2025-09-29T17:00:00+01:00
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadline2025-08-22T17:00:00+01:00
Award period: startNot published
Award period: end2025-10-30T23:59:59Z
Submission method detailsThis is an early engagement and response will be received via eSourcing link shared. Suppliers are encouraged to register on the tendering portal. http://redirect.transaxions.com/events/rQahs
Submission languagesen
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£625,000
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source3
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
21 Jul 2025tender041778-2025

All source data

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

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Complete JSON history (1 releases)
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