Official UK procurement notice
Provision of Rail Operations Systems - Extension of Contract
Authority: SE TRAINS LIMITED (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis contract extension is being entered into to provide SE Trains Limited with continuity of service for operationally critical rail operations systems, including the migration from the supplier's outgoing system to the new release.
The contract will also have an option to migrate another unsupported system for train crew, drivers and other colleague rostering to the supplier's software solution for this.
The contract is being extended to provide sufficient time to allow SE Trains to finalise its specification for these services, compliantly tender and implement a solution.
CPV: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support · Public transport services by railways
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1The Authority currently has a live contract with the supplier for the provision of…
The Authority currently has a live contract with the supplier for the provision of rail operations services and intends to directly award an extension to this contract, combining an option for migrating safety and operationally critical rostering to the supplier's software solution.
The duration of this contract extension shall have a term of three years, with two further years permitted as optional extensions to be exercised at the discretion of the Authority based on the readiness of any replacement solution.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0025 Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016 (Directive 2014/25/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded without competition
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Direct award (no call for competition)
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 25 Mar 2025, 08:37 GMT
- Last source update
- 25 Mar 2025, 08:37 GMT
- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-011019- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04f82aFind a Tender
- Why no open competition
- The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
- Published justification
The Authority is committed to completing a compliant procurement for the provision of rail operations systems but does not currently have a viable technical specification.
Due to the operational and safety critical nature of the services, it is determined that an extension of the existing contract arrangements should be made to provide sufficient time to run a compliant tender, develop, test and implement a new system safely into the Authority's operations.
The duration of this contract extension has been determined with these factors in mind, with optional extensions to provide contingency in the event that implementation takes longer than envisaged.
Publisher note: The Authority is currently seeking to develop and finalise a specification for a rail operations system that will be compliantly tendered in the future. The timing of this procurement will be driven by resource availability.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast1 further award records carry no date or value.
Contracts
Contract 011019-2025-1 · supplier not published
- Signed
- 21 Mar 2025
- Value
- —
- Status
- active
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- High Court of England & Wales Technology and Construction CourtReview body
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.