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Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service) verified 7 hours ago Contract notice

Courier Services

Open United Kingdom Postal & telecommunications services

Buyer Transport for Wales Rail Limited (Utility Buyer)

27 days left

Key facts

Closes
12:00 (UTC)
Estimated value
€1.5M
€1,498,531 · converted from GBP
Procedure
Open procedure Anyone may submit a bid, in one step, with no pre-selection. Full entry
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Summary

Machine-generated summary

Transport for Wales Rail Limited procures comprehensive courier and logistics services to handle the movement of rail spares and associated items. The contract supports operational activities across multiple TfWRL locations, including Canton, Machynlleth, Taffs Well, Barry, Holyhead, Birkenhead, and Chester. Additionally, the service must facilitate the resupply of parts and equipment to mobile technicians working at various outstations. The scope involves ensuring efficient logistical support for these specific operational needs, covering the transportation of necessary materials to maintain rail operations effectively at the designated sites and mobile work locations.

Timing

28 days from publication to deadline. Usual length in United Kingdom: 30 days. Usual length

  1. Published
  2. Today
  3. Deadline
  4. Awarded pending
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Notices of this kind (United Kingdom, open procedure, above the EU threshold) give a median of 30 days, half of them between 26 and 36 days, based on 2,161 notices of the last two years.

Description

This contract seeks the provision of comprehensive courier and logistics services to support the movement of rail spares and associated items on behalf of Transport for Wales Rail Limited (TfWRL). The service will support operational activities at TfWRL locations including Canton, Machynlleth, Taffs Well, Barry, Holyhead, Birkenhead and Chester, as well as mobile technicians requiring the re-supply of parts and equipment at outstations.

Bid or no-bid?

2 of 6 answered from the register

Six questions before you commit a team. Under each one, what the register holds on it. The answers are yours.

  1. In your favour:

    Do we meet every eligibility criterion?

    Open procedure: any interested supplier may submit a bid.

  2. Your call:

    Can we deliver this with the team we have?

    Estimated at €1.5M.

  3. Your call:

    Do we have two comparable references?

    Comparable work is in Postal & telecommunications services.

  4. In your favour:

    Is the deadline realistic for a proper offer?

    27 days left, 20 of them working days.

  5. Your call:

    Is there a margin at the likely winning price?

    In this country this kind of contract is usually awarded for between €78,300 and €767,735.

  6. Your call:

    Do we know this buyer?

    The buyer has 28 notices in the register and no pattern of winners yet.

Can I bid?

  • Open procedure: any interested supplier may submit a bid.
  • Documents in English.

Official source

Source: Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service)

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Last verified against Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service) 7 hours ago

Documents on Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service) (English)

Market

Postal & telecommunications services in United Kingdom

median award in this market
€262,577
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What this market pays

The buyer has too few awards of its own in this sector, so this is the range of the last 79 awards for Postal & telecommunications services in United Kingdom.

This notice
€1.5M
Median award
€262,577
Middle half of past awards
€78,300 to €767,735

The estimate is larger than three in four past awards.

Award values as published by the official sources. Use them as a guide, not a rule: scope, lots and duration differ between contracts.

Market context

Larger than 64% of the open notices in Postal & telecommunications services across Europe.

open now in Postal & telecommunications services
721
median open notice
€538,672

Who wins in this market

Many suppliers

United Kingdom · Postal & telecommunications services

different companies won awards here
52
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
26%
buyers awarded contracts here
81

Based on 96 awards with a named winner over the last 3 years. Counted by award, not by value, because lot and framework amounts are not comparable. Concentrated means the three most frequent winners took 65% or more of the awards; many suppliers, under 35% with at least ten different winners.

The buyer in figures

Transport for Wales Rail Limited (Utility Buyer)

notices in the register
28
awards
16

One dot per award, on the day it was signed, sized by its value. A ring is an award with no published value.

Transport for Wales Rail Limited (Utility Buyer)

United Kingdom

This buyer has no award history in this sector yet. Usual winners, Postal & telecommunications services - United Kingdom

Company Wins Total awarded Last win
Royal mail group limited 11 €8.4M Oct 2026
Vodafone Limited 8 €6.9M Oct 2026
Royal Mail 6 €3.6M Jul 2026
Trustmarque solutions limited 5 €1.0M Aug 2026
Whistl uk limited 3 €9.0M Oct 2026

Based on 98 awards with a linked company profile over the last 2 years.

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