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ClosedFind a Tender · tender
BuyerTHE CHILTERN RAILWAY COMPANY LIMITED
StatusClosed
Deadline7 Apr 2025
Value£1,300,000
Published21 Feb 2025

What is being bought

Chiltern Railways Company Limited (CRCL) seek to procure the design, development, delivery, installation and commissioning of desk simulator systems : a Full-Cab Simulator & 6 x Ultra-light Simulation units for driver training on the Class 168 (potentially 196) rolling stock, together with Instructor Stations and a Maintenance & Support Service package.

Delivery location

UKC23 · UKG · UKI

Categories

Training simulators 34152000

Lot details

Lot 1

Chiltern Railways Company Limited (CRCL) seek to procure the design, development, delivery, installation and commissioning of desk simulator systems : a Full-Cab Simulator & 6 x Ultra-light Simulation units for driver training on the Class 168 (potentially 196) rolling stock, together with Instructor Stations and a Maintenance & Support Service package. Procurement shall be undertaken in accordance with the Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016 (UCR 2016) utilising the Negotiated Procedure with prior call for competition.

Statusactive
Value£1,300,000

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Not publishedNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 34. The category anchor is Training simulators (34152000); 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 344,5593 median · 24 average (1,842 of 4,559 with a bid count)3.7 average (2,057 of 4,559 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer10Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UKC23105 median · 21.4 average (5 of 10 with a bid count)3.6 average (5 of 10 with named award suppliers)Not published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)2476 median · 10.7 average (3 of 247 with a bid count)2 average (3 of 247 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 requirementYes
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byNot published
Submission policyNot published
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

  • economicSelectionCriteria
  • technicalSelectionCriteria

Source data inventory

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

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-04e722
Latest release ID006931-2025
Latest release timestampFri Feb 21 2025 15:47:33 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodselective
Procurement method detailsNegotiated procedure with prior call for competition
Main procurement categorygoods
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basis32014L0025
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: end2025-04-07T12:00:00+01:00
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailshttps://chilternrailways.marketdojo.com
Submission languagesen
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£1,300,000
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source2
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release2

Notice history

DateEventReference
21 Feb 2025tender006931-2025

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)
21 Feb 2025 · 006931-2025 · tender
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