Official UK procurement notice
Manpower Support for High Voltage Feeder Cable Renewal
Authority: Transport for London (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionProvision of experienced multi-skilled operatives to support the installation of High Voltage (HV) cable infrastructure across the TfL network. The service includes installation of HV Cable Route Management Systems (CRMS) and HV power cables weighing approximately 20 kg per metre.
The supplier shall provide suitably qualified and experienced personnel with demonstrated expertise in heavy cable installation activities, including:
Installation and handling of HV cables and associated cable management systems.
Operation of London Underground cable trains.
Delivery, movement, and handling of cable drums weighing up to 5 metric tonnes.
Use of cable winches and associated equipment for cable installation works.
Support for cable pulling, routing, positioning, and associated installation activities in rail and tunnel environments.
An estimated requirement of approximately 800 shifts is anticipated over a 12-month period to support the installation of the first cable section. All resources must be competent, trained, and capable of working safely within the TfL operational environment.
CPV: Supply services of commercial or industrial workers
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1PlannedPublished value£450,000
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Transport for London buys Supply services of personnel including temporary staff (CPV 7962), and who usually turns up
Transport for London’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Supply services of personnel including temporary staff (CPV 7962) →
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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.
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Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 56 days of the bid deadline.
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Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid44% / 14%
2–346% / 29%
4–68% / 29%
7+3% / 29%
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.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate48% / 35%
Within ±2%32% / 41%
Above estimate20% / 24%
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See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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Lot #1CPV 7962Published estimate£450k
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How many bids this lot may attract.
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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 258 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid13%
2–324%
4–634%
7+29%
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Where the award price may land.
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
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Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
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A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
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A past supplier may not bid again.
No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
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Who could compete for this lot?
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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.
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Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Competitive flexible procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Call-off under a framework
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 11 Sept 2026, 09:22 BST
- Last source update
- 11 Sept 2026, 09:22 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 15 Mar 2027
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-086210- Latest notice
- Planned procurement notice (UK3)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06f798Find a Tender
- Call-off under framework Intention to Use RISQS as a Dynamic Market for Cable Procurement
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 8 Feb 2027, 17:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 25 Jan 2027, 17:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
11 Sept 2026 → 26 Apr 2027 · 6 dates- Planning notice published46 days ago11 Sept 2026, 09:22 BST
- Today27 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 52 days18 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Clarification questions byin 89 days25 Jan 2027, 17:00 GMT
- Submission deadlinein 103 days8 Feb 2027, 17:00 GMT
- Award decision expected byin 139 days15 Mar 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 180 days26 Apr 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Planned procurement notice published11 Sept 2026, 09:22 BSTUK3
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
- Planned procurement notice Planned procurement notice on Find a Tender