Official UK procurement notice
Provision of Hot Drinks and Vending Services
Authority: Thameslink Southern Great Northern Limited (TSGN) (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionGTR is seeking to appoint a supplier to provide vending machine services for its employees. The scope of services will include the provision, installation, and maintenance of vending machines offering a selection of hot and cold beverages, as well as snacks, at designated depot and office locations across GTR's network.
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CPV: Canteen and catering services · Catering supplies · Coffee, tea and related products · Snacks · Soft drinks · Vending machines · Vending-machine ingredients
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedWhat 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).
Published sub-criteria (2)
- Criterion 2: 55%
- Criterion 1: 45%
Published award criteria (2)
- Criterion 1
- Criterion 2
- Price carries 45 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 4.5 points. Quality carries 55 of 100: the paper moves it further than the discount.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Thameslink Southern Great Northern Limited (TSGN) buys Canteen and catering services (CPV 5550), and who usually turns up
Thameslink Southern Great Northern Limited (TSGN)’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: Canteen and catering services (CPV 5550) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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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.
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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 Greater London (authority’s region).
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside Greater London.
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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 115 days of the bid deadline.
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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.
Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.
How many bids did past lots attract?
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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 bid38% / 22%
2–325% / 59%
4–625% / 19%
7+13% / 0%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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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 estimate80% / 46%
Within ±2%20% / 46%
Above estimate0% / 8%
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.
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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 #1CPV 5550Published estimate£1.8m
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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 85 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid15%
2–332%
4–645%
7+8%
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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.
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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.
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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- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Utilities
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 24 Nov 2025, 10:05 GMT
- Last source update
- 2 Apr 2026, 14:46 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 19 Aug 2026
- Authority reference
GTR1047- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-030983- Latest notice
- Planned procurement notice (UK3)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05e6feFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 4 May 2026, 23:59 BST
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Tender Notice published on 2 April 2026
The opportunity can be accessed here :
goviathameslinkrailway.delta-esourcing.com ↗
Access Code : QH7WEG465P
Timeline
24 Nov 2025 → 1 Apr 2027 · 7 dates- Planning notice published331 days ago24 Nov 2025, 10:05 GMT
- Market engagement305 days ago19 Dec 2025, 23:59 GMT
Deadline for clarifications 12 December 2025.
- Latest notice published202 days ago2 Apr 2026, 14:46 BST
- Tender notice expected196 days ago7 Apr 2026, 23:59 BST
- Submission deadline169 days ago4 May 2026, 23:59 BST
- Award decision expected by62 days ago19 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST
- Today21 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 162 days1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
8 events · 4 releases on Find a Tender · since 24 Nov 2025- Preliminary market engagement notice published24 Nov 2025, 10:05 GMTUK2
- Planned procurement notice published10 Feb 2026, 12:05 GMTUK3
- Status changed to planned10 Feb 2026, 12:05 GMT
- Procurement method changed10 Feb 2026, 12:05 GMT
- Deadline published: 23 Apr 2026, 23:59 BST10 Feb 2026, 12:05 GMT
- Planned procurement notice published26 Mar 2026, 09:56 GMTUK3
- Deadline moved to 4 May 2026, 23:59 BST26 Mar 2026, 09:56 GMT+11 days · was 23 Apr 2026, 23:59 BST
- Planned procurement notice published2 Apr 2026, 14:46 BSTUK3
Published amendments (2)
Estimated tender notice date 7/04/2026
The opportunity can be accessed here : https://goviathameslinkrailway.delta-esourcing.com/ Access Code : QH7WEG465P
Routine re-releases (4)
- 2025-11: 1 release · 24 Nov 2025
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 (4)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Planned procurement notice Planned procurement notice on Find a Tender
- Planned procurement notice Planned procurement notice on Find a Tender
- Planned procurement notice Planned procurement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender