Official UK procurement notice
Provision of tickets for London's key attractions and other activities via the TfL visitor centres
Authority: Docklands Light Railway Limited (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe purpose of this Prior Information Notice (PIN) is to alert potential suppliers to an opportunity for future services for providing tickets to London's main visitor attractions, theatres, and sightseeing tours. The tickets will be sold by TfL staff via TfL's five visitor centres as detailed below.
It is a market awareness exercise to share information on a potential procurement, to engage with the market on the scope and approach and to enable TfL to determine the detailed design of the procurement and commercial process.
The purpose is to test the market appetite, generate market interest, and to gain a better understanding of the capability and capacity of suppliers.
This activity is focusing on the market as a whole, rather than the merits of individual suppliers. It includes no element of supplier selection or bid evaluation. There is no commitment of any kind inferred by either party.
CPV: Retail trade services · Travel agency and similar services · Travel agency, tour operator and tourist assistance services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1About TfL Visitor Centres:Planned
About TfL Visitor Centres:
Visitor centres have been helping Londoners, commuters, and visitors for the last 70 years and are a one-stop shop for all travel-related inquiries, ensuring visitors have a smooth and enjoyable experience in London.
There are 5 Visitor Centres around London:
Heathrow (Heathrow Terminal 2 & 3 Tube station),
King's Cross & St Pancras International (Kings Cross & St Pancras Tube Station),
Liverpool Street (Liverpool Street Tube Station),
Piccadilly Circus (Piccadilly Circus Tube Station) and;
Victoria (opposite platform 8 at Victoria Rail Station).
Tens of thousands of customers travel through these stations on a daily basis providing high visibility for vendor products and a large opportunity for potential ticket sales.
The centres also sell tickets to many of London's top venues including fast-track admission to London's main visitor attractions, theatres, and sightseeing tours.
Providing information on London's major visitor attractions remains a key function of the centres today.
More information: visitorshop.tfl.gov.uk/en/visitor-centres ↗ Additional information: Expression of Interest:
Suppliers wishing to engage with the Authority for this opportunity are invited to register their interest by Friday 11th October 2024, this will be followed by a short survey.
If you wish to register an interest, please send an email clearly stating "TfL Visitor Centres - EOI" in the subject line to [email protected] including the following information:
Contact Name,
Name of Organisation,
Details of the company's website providing further information about the company,
Email address,
Telephone contact number.
TfL may engage in bilateral meetings with some of the potential suppliers who have completed the survey, to clarify survey responses if required.
A tender process may follow the PIN notice, estimated to be launched in mid-November 2024.
Following the tender, TfL are seeking to partner with up to three vendors to sell tickets via their Visitor Centres.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- 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
- 27 Sept 2024, 13:22 BST
- Last source update
- 27 Sept 2024, 13:22 BST
- FTS notice number
2024/S 000-030987- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04a39fFind a Tender
Publisher note: This PIN is released for market sounding purposes only. This PIN does not formally signify the beginning of any procurement exercise by the Authority, nor does it constitute a commitment by the Authority to undertake a procurement. However, in the event that the Authority decides to formally commence a procurement pursuant to this PIN, a separate contract notice will be published. If a separate contract notice is published the Authority will rely on the publication of this notice to utilise the minimum time-frames permissible for the receipt of tenders and stages of a procurement.
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
27 Sept 2024 → 12 Nov 2024 · 2 dates- Notice published27 Sept 2024, 13:22 BST
- Tender notice expected12 Nov 2024
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.