Contract award · 3 Oct 2023

Station Deep Cleaning

Govia Thameslink Railway Limited awarded “Station Deep Cleaning” to STM Group (UK) Limited on 3 Oct 2023. Awarded without open competition.

No competitionWaste, cleaning & environmentalLondon

Value Not published

Awarded without open competition

Awarded without open competition. The buyer went directly to one or a few suppliers instead of advertising the contract. Procurement rules allow this only in specific cases, such as extreme urgency, when only one supplier can do the work, or for call-offs from an existing framework.

What “without competition” means

Key facts

Buyer
Govia Thameslink Railway Limited · Train Operating Company
Value
Not published
Procedure
Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
Sector
Waste, cleaning & environmental · Building-cleaning services (CPV 90911200)
Region
London
Timeline
  1. Contract date3 Oct 2023
  2. Published5 Oct 2023Published 2 days after the contract date

Description

This procurement is an exercise to support in procuring a contract for the provision of a comprehensive and high-quality deep cleaning service to 50 GTR Stations. The Supplier shall take responsibility for cleaning all specified internal and external areas including floors, fixtures, fittings, and finishes, to minimise degradation, enhance asset life cycle and ensure the GTR’s service standards are maintained. Stations have been grouped by priority. The Supplier will clean the first 50 stations within a 3-month period and demonstrate further working capability to potentially continue for a further 6 months and another 100 stations. Upon successful delivery of deep cleaning of the first of 50 stations included this tender exercise, there may be an opportunity to deliver the further stages amounting to 100 stations over 6 months via a contract extension.

About the supplier

Other awards in the same procurement

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19 Feb 2026 SW Global Resourcing Limited SME £11.9m
29 Jan 2026 Infrastructure Support Solutions Limited —
29 Jan 2026 SPL Powerlines UK Limited —
29 Jan 2026 Kelvin Rail Services Ltd SME —
27 Jan 2026 Harsco Rail Limited SME £104m
27 Jan 2026 NRL Limited £35.6m
27 Jan 2026 Colas Rail Limited £84.9m
27 Jan 2026 VolkerRail Specialist Businesses Limited £12.4m
18 Nov 2025 Cleshar Contract Services Limited £67.6m
23 Sep 2025 Cleshar Contract Services Limited £82.7m

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