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.
Key facts
- Buyer
- Southeastern Railway (SE Trains Limited) · Railway Transport Services
- Supplier
- N/a
- Value
- £410,161,928
- Procedure
- Negotiated without publication of a contract notice
- Sector
- Repair & maintenance · Maintenance and repair of ticket-issuing machinery (CPV 50316000)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- 031939-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date5 Jun 2025
- Published12 Jun 2025Published 7 days after the contract date
Description
Please note this is a Voluntary Transparency Notice and this contract variation is not yet signed (meaning the ‘Award of Contract’ section and the ‘Date of conclusion of the contract / concession award decision’ of 05/06/25 are not valid). This notice informs bidders of a change of scope in procurement notice 2024/S 000-041499 from awarding a framework agreement that subsidiaries of DfT Operator Limited (as defined legally at the time of our original notice) could call-off, to a framework agreement which can be used by subsidiaries of DfT Operator Limited or operators under a National Rail Contract awarded by the DfT. The Contracting Authority intends to execute this variation subject to (i) receiving no notice during the 10-day standstill period of any intention to challenge the award process; (ii) successful completion of the Ticketing Machine Procurement process and associated required approvals. The Contracting Authority will observe the 10-day standstill from the date this notice.
About the supplier
N/a: every public contract they have won.