Official UK procurement notice
Cartography Services Framework for Transport for London
Authority: Docklands Light Railway Limited (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionA Multi-lot, Single supplier framework for the production of map products, management of cartography deliverables including licencing for all transport for London network including London Underground, London Buses, London River Services, London Overground, London Trams, DLR, Elizabeth line and Cycle Hire.
CPV: Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security
How this framework works
From the published notice- Framework period
- 4 yrs from 14 Feb 2028
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedWhat it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
- “Cartography Services Framework for Transport for London” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Docklands Light Railway Limited buys Business services: law, marketing, consulting (CPV 79), and who usually turns up
Docklands Light Railway Limited’s published record next to the market for the same work. Compared with other frameworks and DPS only. Whole-market view: Business services: law, marketing, consulting (CPV 79) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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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.
No small-firm winners recorded among this authority’s published awards in this sample.
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How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in Greater London (authority’s region).
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 70 days of the bid deadline.
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.
Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.
How many bids did past lots attract?
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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.
1 bid0% / 5%
2–318% / 8%
4–636% / 11%
7+45% / 75%
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.
On a framework or DPS, prices are agreed when work is called off.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Not comparable on a framework or DPS: the price is set later, on each call-off.
Assess each lot i
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.
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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 #1CPV 79Estimate not published
This lot lists more than one class in CPV 79. The comparison uses that group.
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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 155 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid5%
2–38%
4–611%
7+75%
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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.
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.
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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.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| Benugo LtdEarlier contract | London Transport Museum Catering Servicesstarted Jan 2026 | — | £141k | Matched as the earlier contract |
| T-Kartor Content Management ABEarlier contract | Framework Agreement for the Provision of Cartography Servicesnotice published Jan 2024 | Legible London, Cycle Superhighway Totem Mapping & Cycle Hire Docking Stations | — | Matched as the earlier contract |
| PINDAR TRAVEL INFORMATION SYSTEMS LIMITEDEarlier contract | Framework Agreement for the Provision of Cartography Servicesnotice published Jan 2024 | Tube and Rail | — | Matched as the earlier contract |
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.
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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.
What this replaces i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
47% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
47% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (47% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid
Framework Agreement for the Provision of Cartography Services — held by T-Kartor Content Management AB and PINDAR TRAVEL INFORMATION SYSTEMS LIMITED (+1 more); no contract end date published.
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
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 14 May 2026, 20:52 BST
- Last source update
- 14 May 2026, 20:52 BST
- Authority reference
WS2659068895- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-044661- Latest notice
- Pipeline notice (UK1)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-069961Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Appointment period ends
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Timeline
14 May 2026 → 14 Feb 2028 · 3 dates- Planning notice published166 days ago14 May 2026, 20:52 BST
- Today28 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 186 days2 May 2027, 23:59 BST
- Contract starts14 Feb 2028
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Pipeline notice published14 May 2026, 20:52 BSTUK1
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
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender