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BuyerTHE CHILTERN RAILWAY COMPANY LIMITED
StatusClosed
Deadline15 Sept 2025
Value£1,200,000
Published20 Aug 2025

What is being bought

CHILTERN is conducting this Procurement to select a supplier for the provision Rail Winterisation Services to railway platforms, car parks, walkways, over bridges, access paths, etc, at railway stations and depots, and associated public spaces, across the CHILTERN network from its central London terminus at London Marylebone along the M40 corridor to destinations in Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Warwickshire. This Procurement also covers East West Railway from Oxford to Bletchley.

Delivery location

UKG3, GB · UKI3, GB · UKI7, GB · UKJ1, GB

Categories

De-icing agents 24951310Anti-freezing preparations 24951311Salt spreaders 34144420Winter-maintenance materials 44113910Support services for railway transport 63711000

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusactive
Value£1,200,000
Contract periodFrom 31 Oct 2025 to 30 Oct 2028
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

Award criteria
Technical — Please refer to the Invitation to Tender (DRAFT) (40%)
Legal — Please refer to the Invitation to Tender (DRAFT) (10%)
Commercial — Please refer to the Invitation to Tender (DRAFT) (50%)

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1De-icing agents, Anti-freezing preparations, Salt spreaders, Winter-maintenance materials, Support services for railway transportNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 24. The category anchor is De-icing agents (24951310); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 241844 median · 63.1 average (42 of 184 with a bid count)7.2 average (43 of 184 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer1Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UKG30Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)205 median · 5 average (1 of 20 with a bid count)1 average (1 of 20 with named award suppliers)Not published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeutilities
Covered byNot published
Submission policyallowed
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-058ba7
Latest release ID050325-2025
Latest release timestampWed Aug 20 2025 15:48:18 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLhttps://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/050325-2025
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodselective
Procurement method detailsCompetitive flexible procedure
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdYes
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: endNot published
Expression of interest deadline2025-09-15T12:00:00+01:00
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: end2025-10-24T23:59:59+01:00
Submission method detailshttps://marketdojo.com/market-dojo-sign-up/ Chiltern use Market Dojo e-sourcing portal for the purposes of this Procurement. Use Invitation Code: 11E56EBBB9 to access the tender documents.
Submission languagesen
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£1,200,000
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source2
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
20 Aug 2025tender050325-2025

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

Complete current OCDS release JSON
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Complete JSON history (1 releases)
20 Aug 2025 · 050325-2025 · tender
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