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title: "Provision of Travel Management Services"
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# Provision of Travel Management Services

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/provision-of-travel-management-services-ocds-h6vhtk-03480e). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** NORTHUMBRIAN WATER GROUP LIMITED: "Provision of Travel Management Services". Published status: active. Published Value: £6,500,000. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 5 Jul 2022, 16:00 BST. Published submission portal: s1.ariba.com.

## Key Information
- **Status:** ACTIVE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [NORTHUMBRIAN WATER GROUP LIMITED](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/northumbrian-water-group-limited-coh-04760441)
- **Published Value:** £6,500,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 5 July 2022 at 16:00 BST
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Negotiated procedure with prior call for competition
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Business travel services, Travel management services
- **Delivery Location:** UK
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0025
- **Official Documents:** 2 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/provision-of-travel-management-services-ocds-h6vhtk-03480e#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-03480e`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/provision-of-travel-management-services-ocds-h6vhtk-03480e#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [s1.ariba.com](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fs1.ariba.com)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/provision-of-travel-management-services-ocds-h6vhtk-03480e#participate

## Description
NWL have a requirement to tender the services of a travel
management company to support employees to book all travel requirements.
NWL - NWL have approx. 3000 employees with offices spread across the northeast of England, Essex, and Suffolk. In addition, we have operations in Scotland, Cork Ireland and Gibraltar. 
A travel system was introduced in late 2018, prior to that, employees were issued with Barclaycards. Currently out of scope of this requirement for NWL are Meetings and Events, Taxi requirements and Car rental. NWL have a travel policy in place which placed restrictions for standard class travel only and hotel limits.
Pre Covid, 2019 Spend on travel was in the region of £800,000 per annum. Travel services include Trains(5000 transactions), flights (200 transactions) and hotel accommodation (2300 transactions). We have started to see an increase in the volume over the last few months. It is difficult to estimate our future spend, however we do expect that the trend will continue to increase to in the region of £400,000 to £500,000 by the end of 2022
The contract will be for a three-year contract with the option to extend for a further two years. 
Contract start date will be 1 July 2023

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 79997000
- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Description:** NWL wish to award a contract to a supplier who can demonstrate the ability to provide the following with key benefits.
- Provide an 'online', 'self-managed' travel booking tool for rail, air and hotel requirements.
- Achieve savings/reduction in trav...

- **Options published:** yes

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F016754-2022)
- **Last Source Update:** 2022-06-20T08:46:49.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-25T14:59:00.536Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-03480e