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Task Force Boards Consultancy Support

Buyer: Transport for the North →

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BuyerTransport for the North
StatusClosed
Deadline7 Apr 2025
Value£100,000
Published12 Mar 2025

What is being bought

Transport for the North is seeking consultancy support to provide an independent chair and technical support to service three new Task Force Boards being established across the North of England to bring together decisions on train services and infrastructure investment into a single forum with a regional focus. For more information about this opportunity, please visit the Delta eSourcing portal at: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-Manchester:-Transport-services-%28excl.-Waste-transport%29./X6ZTW4ZR26 To respond to this opportunity, please click here: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/X6ZTW4ZR26

Delivery location

UK, GB

Categories

Transport services (excl. Waste transport) 60000000Railway transport services 60200000

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusactive
Value£100,000
Contract periodFrom 13 Apr 2025 to 1 Apr 2026

Award criteria
Price 1 - Chair of Task Force — Long criteria description (15%)
Price 2 - Technical Support — Long criteria description (10%)
Understanding of Context & Approach — Long criteria description (20%)
Personnel Capability — Long criteria description (30%)
Technical Capability — Long criteria description (20%)
Decarbonisation — Long criteria description (5%)

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Transport services (excl. Waste transport), Railway transport servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 60. The category anchor is Transport services (excl. Waste transport) (60000000); 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 607,99111 median · 20.6 average (6,945 of 7,991 with a bid count)1.4 average (6,978 of 7,991 with named award suppliers)1 comparable price pairs
Same buyer2Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UK2544 median · 30.5 average (59 of 254 with a bid count)4.3 average (67 of 254 with named award suppliers)Not published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)521 median · 1 average (2 of 52 with a bid count)1 average (2 of 52 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 regimeNot published
Covered byNot published
Submission policynotAllowed
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-04ec10
Latest release ID008950-2025
Latest release timestampWed Mar 12 2025 12:05:12 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLhttps://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/008950-2025
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsBelow threshold - open competition
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNo
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: end2025-04-07T10:00:00Z
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadline2025-03-21T12:00:00Z
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailsTo respond to this opportunity please use the following link: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/X6ZTW4ZR26. All questions should be raised via the Delta e-Sourcing portal, queries submitted via email will not be accepted. Further details can be found in the tender documents.
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£100,000
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source1
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
12 Mar 2025tender008950-2025

All source data

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

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12 Mar 2025 · 008950-2025 · tender
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