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Published 17 Sept 2026, 16:37 BST
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TfGM - Cloud Public Address System

Official notice
Authority:Transport for Greater Manchester(Public Body)
services
Open procedure
Above threshold
WTO GPA (GPA)
SME suitable
Published estimate
£871,000
≈ £124,331 / year
Submission deadline
30 Oct 2026, 16:00 GMT
42d 23h leftTypical competition: 4 bidsThis authority · all categories · 24 months · n=16 bid reports
Lots published
1
Lots published in procedure
Contract duration
7 yrs (with extension options)
Starts 1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST

What is being bought & procurement scope

Procurement Scope & Specification
Tenderline summary generated from the published notice
Executive Summary: Transport for Greater Manchester: "TfGM - Cloud Public Address System". Published status: active. Published value: £871,000. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 30 Oct 2026, 16:00 GMT. Published submission portal: procontract.due-north.com.

Official Requirement Description:

This tender relates to Transport for Greater Manchester's (TfGM) need to procure a Cloud Public Address (PA) System and associated services to provide a secure, resilient, IP-based PA capability across TfGM Transport Service Facilities (TSFs). The PA service is intended to provide real-time passenger information, site-specific passenger safety and security (PSS) messages, and event-driven announcements, operable centrally from the Operations Control Centre (OCC) and locally by designated TSF Site Co-Ordinators. TfGM requires a cloud-hosted PA management system (with main and failover capability) integrated with an on-net estate of PA end user devices (EUDs) such as IP speakers, audio gateways, AFILs, paging stations and user clients, including the ability to interface with legacy Long Line Public Address (LLPA) systems during transition and with existing third-party systems (e.g., Cisco Unified Call Manager) as required. This is an Open Tender procedure in accordance with the Procurement Act 2023. This route has been selected to ensure unrestricted market access, maximise competition, and enable engagement with the full range of capable Bidders across the services market.

Lots and requirements (1)

Procurement Structure
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot #1
    Lot 1
    active
    Options
    Published value£871,000
    The source published no individual title or description for this lot.
    Contract period:
    1 Apr 2027 — 31 Mar 2034 (7 yrs)
    Eligibility:
    SME eligible
    Turnover benchmark:
    ~£248,662/yr
    Options / extension:
    Further site locations as specified within ITT documentation

Published award criteria & contract terms

From this notice
Only criteria and terms published on this notice. Conditions of participation in the tender pack are not inferred.
Evaluation weighting
Quality: 100
Price: 80
Social value: 20
Published as relative weights, not percentage points.
Published sub-criteria
  • Technical — 50
  • Technical — 50
  • Cost — 40
  • Cost — 40
  • Social Value — 10
  • Social Value — 10
Published terms
Contract duration7 yrs (with extension options)

Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid

How Transport for Greater Manchester buys Boat-location and public address system (CPV 4895) — and who usually turns up

Transport for Greater Manchester’s own published record, next to the North West England market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: sector page →

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How the contest usually goes

Left: this authority. Right: the market where the work is delivered. Bids and award-vs-estimate pairs are per lot, from contested contracts only — direct awards report one bid by definition and are left out. Empty means nothing was published, not filled in from elsewhere.

This authority

Transport for Greater Manchester

contract notices in 36 months: 16 in division 48 (4 direct) · 67 in all categories (13 direct)

Bids per lot4all categories · 36m · n=25 lots
Single-bid lots0%all categories · 36m · n=25 lots
Award vs estimate2% aboveall categories · 36m · n=7 pairs
Deadline → award71dall categories · 36m · n=7 notices
Notice updates0all categories · 24m · n=160 notices
Awarded without competition25%division 48 · 36m · n=16 notices
Bids per lot robust · n=25
  • 1 bid 0%
  • 2–3 36%
  • 4–6 40%
  • 7+ 24%

Median 4 · 25 lots on 16 contested notices · all categories.

Winning award vs estimate robust · n=7
  • Below estimate 14%
  • Within ±2% 43%
  • Above estimate 43%

7 lot pairs · all categories.

The market · delivery region

North West England · Boat-location and public address system (CPV 4895)

contract notices delivered in North West England in 36 months: 452 in division 48 (300 contested)

Bids per lot5division 48 · 36m · n=79 lots
Single-bid lots11%division 48 · 36m · n=79 lots
Award vs estimate1% belowdivision 48 · 36m · n=40 pairs
Deadline → award51ddivision 48 · 36m · n=47 notices
SME bidders56%division 48 · 36m · n=13 lots
Winners based in the region50%division 48 · 36m · n=206 awards
Bids per lot robust · n=79
  • 1 bid 11%
  • 2–3 22%
  • 4–6 37%
  • 7+ 30%

Median 5 · 79 lots on 76 contested notices · division 48.

Winning award vs estimate robust · n=40
  • Below estimate 48%
  • Within ±2% 25%
  • Above estimate 28%

40 lot pairs · division 48.

robust · n=7 Awards in Transport for Greater Manchester (all categories, n=7 pairs) land a median 2% above: on this notice’s £871,000 that is about £884,936. Context for a bid, not a recommended price.

Method and what to read with care
  • Two columns, no blending. The authority column walks its own record only: notices in the 4-digit class, then the 2-digit division, then all categories (36 months, per lot, contested only), and as a last resort its 24-month row across all categories (per notice, every route). The market column is the notice’s primary delivery ITL1 × the same class, then division (36 months). Nothing is filled from the UK-wide class; an empty tile means the source published nothing usable.
  • Per lot, contested only. Find a Tender publishes bid counts per lot; a seven-lot tender is seven contests. Procedures awarded without competition (limited / direct) are excluded from bids, price pairs and decision days — they report one bid by definition. Frameworks and DPS are a separate population from contracts (6–7 bids per lot against 2–4) and only the notice’s own kind is shown.
  • Coverage. Roughly 40 % of notices publish a bid count; about half publish an ITL1 delivery location, so the market column reads the authority’s registered region when the notice has none (labelled). Award-vs-estimate pairs need a lot estimate, one active award on the lot, one canonical supplier and a gap under 60 %; about 30 % of pairs are exact matches (the buyer published the award at the estimate). n is on every figure; below 3 the tile is muted, never hidden.
  • Pounds. The expected award applies the authority’s median movement (or the region’s, when the authority has fewer than 3 pairs) to this notice’s estimate; the middle half uses the region’s quartiles. A multi-lot notice publishes an envelope, so the movement is applied per lot, never to the total. A benchmark, not a recommended price.
  • “Match” and “relevance” are model scores from the nightly matcher, not published facts. Find a Tender does not publish who is bidding. Never shown: contact details, payment behaviour, or a recommended price.

Procedure terms & legal framework

Procedure methodOpen procedureLegal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54
Procurement Act 2023
Procurement categoryservices
Notice statusOpen for tenderProcurement threshold
Above threshold
(FTS publication)
Regulatory regimeStandard commercial regime
Commercial structureStand-alone contract (No framework)Competition typeCompetitive procedureGPA WTO covered{"GPA"}
Recurring procurementNo (One-off requirement)First published17 Sept 2026, 16:37 BSTLast source update17 Sept 2026, 16:37 BST
Award evaluation windowSubmission end — 20 Jan 2027, 23:59 GMTClassification (CPV)Public address systems, Repair and maintenance services
Delivery area
North West (UKD3)
Official Registry OCIDocds-h6vhtk-0774cf

How to participate & submission route

Official notice
Submit via ProContract (Due North)
Authorized E-Sourcing Portal
Supplier login required
Online submission allowed
Language: EN
Open official portal workspace ↗
Access & Registration note: Free · short registration with manual review; public opportunity list
Expression of interest (EOI)—Tender submission deadline
30 Oct 2026, 16:00 GMT
Clarification deadlineNone published in notice
Submission channelOfficial e-sourcing portalElectronic submissionAllowedAccepted languagesen
Participation feeFree of charge (Open access)
Detailed Submission Instructions & Authority Contacts
From official release
Timeline
  1. Procedure published
    17 Sept 2026, 16:37 BST
  2. Submission deadline
    30 Oct 2026, 16:00 GMT

Commercial outcome and contract awards

Awards (0)No award published
Contracts (0)No contract published
Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published
Notice history
1 lines · 1 source events
  1. Official notice release published
    17 Sept 2026, 16:37 BST

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Transport for Greater Manchester

Contracting authority
Public Body
GB-PPON-PNJQ-2746-NWYT
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Official Documents & Specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

  • Tender notice on Find a Tender

    tender
    Tender notice
    17 Sept 2026, 16:37 BST

  • Conflict of interest declaration

    tender
    Conflict of interest declaration
    Notice declares: Not published
Procedure justification & pre-market engagement
Official Statement
Preliminary market engagement (PME) rationaleRFI was conducted using email to gather supplier responses.