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The Provision of Journey Planning, Mobile Ticketing and Mobile Application

Buyer: West Midlands Combined Authority →

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BuyerWest Midlands Combined Authority
StatusClosed
Deadline6 Jul 2026
Value£4,376,212
Published5 Jun 2026

What is being bought

The West Midlands Travel App (WMTA) Project aims to replace our current fragmented transport information with a simple, trusted, and dependable digital solution. Acting for its customers, Transport for West Midlands (TfWM) seeks a unified platform that simplifies the end-to-end customer experience for journey planning and mobile ticketing. By providing intelligent journey planning, accurate live updates, and easy mobile ticketing, the solution supports TfWM’s strategic objective to increase the use of public transport. This initiative is a foundational step towards delivering a cohesive and modern transport network, supporting bus franchising goals and our Local Transport Plan. The platform's ability to be a reliable, day-to-day tool for customers will allow TfWM to capture more valuable insights into customer behaviour, thereby supporting future enhancements and investment.

Delivery location

UKG, GB · UKG, GB · UKG, GB

Categories

Custom software development services 72230000System and support services 72250000

Lot details

Journey Planning

A journey planning solution is required to provide customers with comprehensive, real-time, and multi-modal journey planning information. It shall include search filtering options that enable customers to identify journeys that best meet their needs, including accessible journey options.

Statusactive
Value£250,000
Contract periodFrom 10 Nov 2026 to 9 Nov 2029
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

Award criteria
Quality (Technical) (65%)
Commercial (Price) (25%)
Social Value (10%)

Mobile Ticketing Backoffice Solution

The mobile ticketing solution will provide a backend solution (MTBS) that must securely manage all core ticketing system functions. It will serve as the backend system for ticketing lifecycles, payment processing, customer accounts and configurable commercial logic. The MTBS will handle all the critical account, product, ticketing, payment and support functions that are utilised by customers through TfWM apps and websites, with the ability to be expanded into other retail channels.

Statusactive
Value£3,776,212
Contract periodFrom 10 Nov 2026 to 9 Nov 2029
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

Award criteria
Technical (Quality) (60%)
Commercial (Price) (30%)
Social Value (10%)

Mobile App

The app will be TfWM’s primary customer-facing solution, providing a seamless and secure experience for customers to plan their journeys and purchase products on iOS and Android devices. These functions will be supported by additional features such as account management (personal details, payment details, communication preferences), help & support, and access to additional travel related information. The new mobile app shall support all features and capabilities of journey planning and mobile ticketing as outlined in the specification and requirements documents.

Statusactive
Value£350,000
Contract periodFrom 10 Nov 2026 to 9 Nov 2029
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

Award criteria
Technical (Quality) (60%)
Commercial (Price) (30%)
Social Value (10%)

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Custom software development services, System and support servicesNot published
2Custom software development services, System and support servicesNot published
3Custom software development services, System and support servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 72. The category anchor is Custom software development services (72230000); 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 723,7281 median · 7.7 average (1,193 of 3,728 with a bid count)1.7 average (1,361 of 3,728 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer7Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UKG2711 median · 8.1 average (105 of 271 with a bid count)1.4 average (112 of 271 with named award suppliers)Not published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)28913 median · 13 average (2 of 289 with a bid count)3.5 average (2 of 289 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 byGPA
Submission policyallowed
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsPlease refer to the Appendix E within the tender documents. Tender documents can be accessed via the eTendering portal, Proactis: https://procontract.due-north.com/

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-05a238
Latest release ID053252-2026
Latest release timestampFri Jun 05 2026 10:38:36 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLhttps://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/053252-2026
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsCompetitive flexible procedure
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdYes
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: end2026-07-06T12:00:00+01:00
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadline2026-06-26T12:00:00+01:00
Award period: startNot published
Award period: end2026-10-19T23:59:59+01:00
Submission method detailsTenders can be submitted via the Proactis tendering portal: https://procontract.due-north.com/
Submission languagesen
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£4,376,212
Tender lots in source3
Tender items in source3
Tender documents in source3
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
5 Jun 2026tender053252-2026
24 Apr 2026planning037621-2026
18 Nov 2025planning074655-2025
25 Sept 2025planning059741-2025

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 (4 releases)
5 Jun 2026 · 053252-2026 · tender
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24 Apr 2026 · 037621-2026 · planning
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18 Nov 2025 · 074655-2025 · planning
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25 Sept 2025 · 059741-2025 · planning
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