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Published 23 May 2025, 17:45 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Victoria Coach Station - Coach Management System

Official notice Competition analysis

Authority: Transport for London (Public body)

ServicesBelow threshold
Sectors: IT Services & Software (72) Delivery: Delivery location not published
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 30 Sept 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 9 yrsends 30 Apr 2036 · up to 1 May 2047 with extensions · starts 30 Apr 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Victoria Coach Station (VCS) is seeking to replace the current system that operates the service booking, coach operator schedule planning, invoicing and customer information display system that is in place. The new solution is required to support the aspirations of coach operations strategic delivery plans (made up of the Operations / Customer and Revenue roadmaps). TfL also seeks to exploit advancements in technology that generates efficiencies whilst maintaining service quality. It is hoped a new solution will improve operational efficiencies when managing departure and arrival schedules within VCS in addition to a system that continues to satisfy business management and customer needs.

CPV: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 9 yrs
Contract period: 30 Apr 2027 – 30 Apr 2036 (9 yrs) · up to 1 May 2047 with extensions
Extensions: Extension options published
72000000 IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published

How Transport for London buys IT services: consulting, software, internet (CPV 72), and who usually turns up

Transport for London’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: IT services: consulting, software, internet (CPV 72) →

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How the contest usually goes

Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.

Question for the bid
This buyerTransport for London · division 72
The marketIT services: consulting, software, internet (CPV 72) · Greater London (authority’s region)
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
i

How often small and medium firms win.

Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.

The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 3 of 13 known-size awards · market: division 72 · Greater London (authority’s region), n=713
23%37%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

How often do local suppliers win?
i

How often local firms win similar work.

Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.

Here, local means registered in Greater London (authority’s region).

A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 6 of 13 known-location awards · market: division 72 · Greater London (authority’s region), n=660
46%41%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside Greater London.

How long to a decision?
i

How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.

Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.

Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 33 decided notices · market: division 72 · Greater London (authority’s region), n=69
109 days68 days

Half of these awards were announced within 109 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
i

How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.

Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.

Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.

Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: at least 12 of 15 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: division 72 · Greater London (authority’s region), n=1,053
80%62%

Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.

How many bids did past lots attract?

i

How many bids past lots received.

Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.

Past bids do not predict this tender.

Last 36 months.

This buyer185 lots with bid counts · all categories
44% had one bid
The market102 lots with bid counts · division 72 · Greater London (authority’s region)
8% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid44% / 8%
Buyer: 81 of 185 lots with published bid counts. Market: 8 of 102 lots with published bid counts.
2–345% / 31%
Buyer: 84 of 185 lots with published bid counts. Market: 32 of 102 lots with published bid counts.
4–68% / 31%
Buyer: 15 of 185 lots with published bid counts. Market: 32 of 102 lots with published bid counts.
7+3% / 29%
Buyer: 5 of 185 lots with published bid counts. Market: 30 of 102 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

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Where winning prices landed against estimates.

Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.

Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.

Last 36 months.

This buyer25 lots with estimate and award · all categories
48% below estimate
The market76 lots with estimate and award · division 72 · Greater London (authority’s region)
41% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate48% / 41%
Buyer: 12 of 25 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 31 of 76 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%32% / 38%
Buyer: 8 of 25 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 29 of 76 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate20% / 21%
Buyer: 5 of 25 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 16 of 76 lots with an estimate and award.
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Assess each lot
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What past awards tell you about each lot.

See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.

No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.

Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list

Lot #1108 monthsEstimate not published
Expected competition
i

How many bids this lot may attract.

The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.

Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative. The bar shows 102 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet8% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 102 similar lots
1 bid8%
8 of 102 similar past lots received 1 bid (8%).
2–331%
32 of 102 similar past lots received 2–3 (31%).
4–631%
32 of 102 similar past lots received 4–6 (31%).
7+29%
30 of 102 similar past lots received 7+ (29%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 4 bids.
Commercial price forecast
i

Where the award price may land.

The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.

No comparable awards for this lot yet.

A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.

—Estimate not published
The buyer published no estimate for this lot, so there is nothing to forecast against. A price prediction here would be a number about a number we do not have.

Who has supplied this buyer on similar work?
i

Who has done similar work for this buyer.

Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.

A past supplier may not bid again.

No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.

Who could compete for this lot?
i

Who could compete for this lot?

Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.

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.
  • Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.

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
Below threshold
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
23 May 2025, 17:45 BST
Last source update
21 Aug 2026, 11:31 BST
Authority reference
WS2550139479
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-079829
Latest notice
Pipeline notice (UK1)
Classification (CPV)
IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
Delivery area
Not published
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0524fd Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

23 May 2025 → 30 Apr 2027 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published
    23 May 2025, 17:45 BST
  2. Latest notice published62 days ago
    21 Aug 2026, 11:31 BST
  3. Tender notice expected22 days ago
    30 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST
  4. Today
    22 Oct 2026
  5. Contract startsin 189 days
    30 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST

Notice history

4 events · 4 releases on Find a Tender · since 23 May 2025
  1. Pipeline notice published
    23 May 2025, 17:45 BST
    UK1
  2. Pipeline notice published
    23 May 2025, 18:04 BST
    UK1
  3. Pipeline notice published
    24 Feb 2026, 09:58 GMT
    UK1
  4. Pipeline notice published
    21 Aug 2026, 11:31 BST
    UK1
Routine re-releases (4)
  • 2025-05: 1 release · 23 May 2025

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

Transport for London

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central government GB-PPON: PHMT-6197-NWNZ 5 Endeavour Square, London, London, E20 1JNContact name, email

Official documents & specifications (4)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

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