Competition with a shortlist
Competitive procedure with a selection stage: suppliers were shortlisted before being invited to bid.
Key facts
- Buyer
- Transpennine Trains Limited · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Rock Rail TPE Plc
- Value
- Not published
- Procedure
- Negotiated procedure with prior call for competition
- Sector
- Vehicles & transport equipment · Rolling stock (CPV 34620000)
- Region
- North West
- Official notice
- 095764-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date8 Sep 2026
- Published9 Oct 2026Published 31 days after the contract date
Description
TPE conducted this procurement (New Trains Financier) to procure an Owner to finance, own and lease the new Units for use in passenger service TPE sought tenders for the financing and ownership of: a. the Units; and b. the Associated Equipment (as defined in the Contracts) as well as the provision of asset management services as detailed in the Joint Project Management Agreement. Additional information: The technical criteria included several stages with a combination of pass/fail and scored criteria. Tenderers only passed the technical criteria where they passed all pass/fail criteria and met a minimum threshold for the scored criteria. There was therefore no specific overall weighting applied to the technical evaluation stage as a whole
About the supplier
Rock Rail TPE Plc: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 17274296).