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Official procurement procedure
Provision of Ticketing Retailing Equipment and Support Services for use onboard rail services.
Repair
maintenance and associated services related to railways and other equipment
Ticket-issuing machines
+1 more
Published value
Not published
Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
Procurement Executive Summary
AI & Search Synopsis
Generated from official OCDS record
Tenderline Synopsis: NORTHERN TRAINS LIMITED: "Provision of Ticketing Retailing Equipment and Support Services for use onboard rail services.". Published status: complete. Published value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
| Contracting Authority | NORTHERN TRAINS LIMITED | Scope & Categories | Not published | Submission Window | complete No deadline published |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Submission Gateway | Direct notice route | Legal Basis & Regime | Standard procurement | Estimated Value (exc. VAT) | Not published |
Bidder Intelligence · Authority Profile: NORTHERN TRAINS LIMITED
Market Analytics
Derived from OCDS awards & bid statistics
Published history for NORTHERN TRAINS LIMITED. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
Average Price Reduction
Not availableInsufficient comparable data
Competition Density
2.9Bids / Report
Supplier ConcentrationHigh Concentration
PORTERBROOK LEASING COMPANY LIMITEDTop vendor: 58% of attributable valuePayment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
Coverage: 59 active published awards; 10 bid reports (which may be per lot). Supplier values exclude multi-supplier awards, frameworks and DPS, and use GBP only. They are published award values, not payments. Price reduction compares single-lot, single-award, single-supplier GBP procedures with explicitly non-framework/non-DPS status; increases remain in the average. Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
Historical Awarded Suppliers With This Authority:
| Supplier Name | Historic Awards | Attributable GBP Value |
|---|---|---|
| PORTERBROOK LEASING COMPANY LIMITED | 1 win | £222,022,200 |
| SIEMENS MOBILITY LIMITED | 1 win | £158,239,856 |
| EXPLOSIVE LEARNING SOLUTIONS LIMITED | 1 win | £1,550,000 |
| MORSON HUMAN RESOURCES LIMITED | 1 win | £360,000 |
| STHREE PARTNERSHIP LLP | 1 win | £253,000 |
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityNORTHERN TRAINS LIMITED | Procedure methodNot published | Procurement categoryNot published |
Statuscomplete | Framework / DPSNot published | CompetitionNot published |
Above thresholdNot published | Legal basisNot published | Tender period startsNot published |
Clarification deadlineNot published | Electronic submissionNot published | Submission languagesNot published |
Published1 Aug 2025, 10:26 BST | Last source update1 Aug 2025, 10:26 BST | Recurring procurementNot published |
ClassificationRepair, maintenance and associated services related to railways and other equipment, Ticket-issuing machines, Ticket-validation machines | ||
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-056294 | ||
What is being bought
Extension to the current agreement for the Provision of Ticketing Retailing Equipment and Support Services for use onboard rail services 'STARmobile' from 1 August 2025 until December 2026.
What changed
From the official release history
- Official notice release published
1 Aug 2025, 10:26 BST - Status changed to complete
21 Jul 2025, 09:31 BST - Official notice release published
21 Jul 2025, 09:31 BST - Buyer information updated
21 Jul 2025, 09:31 BST
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
- Lot 1 · #1Individual lot title not publishedcancelledPublished valueNot publishedExtension to the current agreement for the Provision of Ticketing Retailing Equipment and Support Services for use onboard rail services from 1 August 2025 until December 2026. This includes over 600 STARmobile devices and the support and maintenance of over 600 devices at 23 depots used in ticket selling, validation of digital tickets and processing of unpaid fares notices and penalty fares On the 12th March 2025 the current service provider published a notification of the End of Service Life (EOSL) for STARmobile and confirmed that this system will no longer be supported for operational for use beyond the end of 2026. Ticket retailing is critical activity for Northern Trains, and other Train Operating Companies (TOC's), and continuity in support activities until December 2026 will allow time for NTL to approach the market to source a replacement onboard train ticket retailing solution.Contract periodNot publishedEligibilityNot publishedOptions / renewalNot published
Timeline
- Procedure published
1 Aug 2025, 10:26 BST - Award active
Not published · Not published - Contract active
Signed 31 Jul 2025, 00:00 BST · Not published
Commercial outcome and competition
Awards Fujitsu Services Not published · Not published · active |
Contracts Contract Not published · signed 31 Jul 2025, 00:00 BST · active |
Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published |
Buyer and organisations in this procedure
NORTHERN TRAINS LIMITED
Contracting authority GB-COH-03076444Documents (0)
Official links; attachments are not copied
No linked documents are published
Related procedures (0)
No related procedures published
Planning and rationale
Planning budgetNot published |
No-engagement rationaleNot published |
Procedure rationaleAward a contract directly as this approach is allowed under the UCR's where restrictions on the use of IPR do not trigger a requirement to conduct a new OJEU-compliant tender process.
We believe in this circumstance the following is applicable:
There are grounds where NTL as public body could award a subsequent contract to a third party using the exemptions in Regulation 50 of the UCR. This exemption is provided for under the UCR Regulation 50(1)(c) which allows Utilities to award a contract where the works, supplies or services can be supplied only by a particular supplier because competition is absent for technical reasons and where no reasonable alternative or substitute exists. The supplier owns copyright and the IPR in all the software. The absence of competition is not the result of an artificial narrowing down of the parameters of the procurement
The works, supplies or services can only be supplied only by a particular supplier because competition is absent for technical reasons and where no reasonable alternative or substitute exists. The supplier owns copyright and the IPR in all the software. The absence of competition is not the result of an artificial narrowing down of the parameters of the procurement. |