Official UK procurement notice
Rolling Stock Asset Management System
Authority: Transport for Wales
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionTfW is inviting suppliers to express interest in an upcoming tender for an advanced, future-oriented Rolling Stock Asset Management System to supersede the existing solution. The new system must accommodate both legacy and modern rolling stock, with the aim of improving maintenance efficiency, materials management, regulatory compliance, and seamless integration with TfW’s internal and third-party systems.
The proposed system should support mobile usage as well as desktop and enhance all facets of maintenance planning, execution, and reporting—including both preventive and corrective tasks. Capabilities must include improved material availability, optimised inventory management, and effective warranty and cost control. Essential features comprise real-time fault and delay reporting, robust analytics for operational and financial performance, and strict adherence to railway safety and regulatory requirements.
The solution should additionally enable third-party maintenance operations and offer comprehensive traceability and auditability of all assets.
All maintenance activities must be documented electronically including mobile usage with complete traceability, including change logs, user activity, and audit trails, and distinguish between preventive and corrective maintenance activities, supporting dynamic scheduling based on time, date, vehicle, and component manufacturer.
Integration with external platforms such as CAF GMAO, Stadler SRMS, Tracsis Enterprise, and TfW's procurement and finance systems is essential. This includes automated purchase order processing, supplier qualification oversight, and approval workflow facilitation.
Master Data: The solution should incorporate templates for vehicle structures, track sub-assemblies, and serialised spare parts, ensuring full lifecycle traceability for all assets and components. It must also allow for counter readings, calibration tracking, and attachment of relevant safety documentation and drawings.
Materials Management: The system must provide inventory tracking across multiple locations, technician logging, automated procurement, and stock replenishment capabilities. Support for return and scrap management, lead time monitoring, and asset/component association per maintenance cycle is required.
Security and Compliance Requirements:
- The solution must meet strict security and compliance standards to protect operations and sensitive data with enough flexible licensing for separate roles, location and organisational needs, with tight access controls.
- Full adherence to TfW's security standards is required.
Reporting & Analytics:
- Real-time dashboards and reporting tools should deliver insights into performance, costs, compliance, and material usage.
- Reporting capabilities must extend to profitability, productivity, utilization, effectiveness, forecasting, and inventory valuation.
Planning & Scheduling:
- The platform should enable dynamic scheduling creation, mass updates to maintenance plans, and long-range simulations, assisting planners in optimising vehicle deployment and workforce allocation.
Interested parties are invited to express their interest in attending an online market engagement event on January 19th 2026 where a detailed scope will be presented and tender timeframes will be announced.
Please register your interest in attending the above by email to [email protected]
CPV: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support · Software package and information systems
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Transport for Wales buys Software package and information systems (CPV 48), and who usually turns up
Transport for Wales’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Software package and information systems (CPV 48) →
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Half of these awards were announced within 40 days of the bid deadline.
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1 bid7%
2–352%
4–628%
7+14%
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Below estimate63%
Within ±2%13%
Above estimate25%
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Lot #1Published estimate£483k
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1 bid15%
2–331%
4–632%
7+22%
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| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| XTM InternationalEarlier contract | TfW Translation Management System (TMS)notice published Dec 2022 | — | £113k | Matched as the earlier contract |
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Who could compete for this lot?
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None is confirmed as a bidder.
Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
- Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
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Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 21 Nov 2025, 16:48 GMT
- Last source update
- 21 Nov 2025, 16:48 GMT
- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-076197- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05e6adFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
21 Nov 2025 → 1 Dec 2026 · 4 dates- Planning notice published334 days ago21 Nov 2025, 16:48 GMT
- Market engagement306 days ago19 Dec 2025, 23:59 GMT
A supplier briefing will be conducted on 19th January 2026 to present technical requirements and deadlines in further detail. Engagements will take place via Microsoft Teams.
Interested suppliers should contact [email protected] to request participation, citing the UK2 reference and description, and providing proposed attendee email addresses.
- Tender notice expected261 days ago2 Feb 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Today22 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 40 days1 Dec 2026
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published21 Nov 2025, 16:48 GMTUK2
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 (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender