Official UK procurement notice
National Transport Analysis Platform
Authority: Department for Transport (Central government)
The DfT requires an analytical platform that is robust, scalable, distributed, combining methods across analytical disciplines to produce analysis for national transport policies. This requires an end-to-end solution from transport modelling through appraisal analysis to visualisation of results.
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe DfT requires an analytical platform that is robust, scalable, distributed, combining methods across analytical disciplines to produce analysis for national transport policies. This requires an end-to-end solution from transport modelling through appraisal analysis to visualisation of results. The scale and expectations of the use of analysis in policy making has increased significantly and we are looking for a system to help us meet that analytical need. While remaining with the same staffing levels.
Current situation
The national transport model has around 7,100 zones, 136,000 links, 46,000 nodes, 5 assigned user classes, 3 time periods, route choice for the assigned demand segments (apart from buses that are a pre-load). In the demand model there are 8 Journey Purposes, mode choice for 6 modes, and destination choice.
Typically to use the national transport model takes around 5 working days. 1 day to setup and quality assure the inputs and assumptions, half a day to setup and run the LGV model and the freight model, 11-12 hours to run a forecast year through both VDM and highway assignment, anything from half a day to 2 days to check the model results, and then a similar amount of time to generate presentation quality visualisations. All these stages have significant amounts of manual quality assurance, and manual data handling, with the exception of validating the approach and the setup data, all the internal manual handling and QA are in scope for being removed with as many modules running in parallel as possible.
CPV: Analytical, scientific, mathematical or forecasting software development services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedProcedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 21 Mar 2025, 16:14 GMT
- Last source update
- 24 Mar 2025, 13:54 GMT
- Authority reference
TBC- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-010915- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04f797Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
21 Mar 2025 → 2 Jul 2025 · 5 dates- Planning notice published21 Mar 2025, 16:14 GMT
- Latest notice published24 Mar 2025, 13:54 GMT
- Market engagement1 Apr 2025, 23:59 BST
Stage 1 – Capability Assessment following the shortlisting of suppliers by TASM to identify suppliers that can meet their requirements. Suppliers must be able to answer yes to all the capability assessment questions to become shortlisted for stage 2. A collaborative approach should be demonstrated which allows for requirements to be altered based on needs and risks which we expect to evolve through the discovery, proof of concept and pilot stages. This allows for joint problem solving with prospective suppliers encouraging the latest industry best practices including use of technology.
Stage 2 – Suppliers who meet all the criteria will be invited to a supplier day to present their capability.
Stage 3 –If you meet the customer’s criteria for being invited, your presentation will be evaluated against the published capability assessment criteria and the successful bidder(s) will be notified. If the Department is satisfied your tool meets our requirements you will be invited to tender for the opportunity.
Scalable national transport analysis platform
Procurement Timetable
The timetable below is indicative and may change if necessary. Suppliers will be informed of any changes promptly.
Publish Capability Assessment (CA) 21 March 2025
CA Clarification period open 21 March 2025
CA Clarification period closes 28 March 2025 @ 13:00
CA Clarification response published 31 March 2025 @ 17:00
CA Submission deadline 1 April 2025 @ 16:00
Review CA’s 4 April – 10 April 2025
Supplier Event preparation 11 April – 17 April 2025
Supplier Day (to include demos) 21 – 22 April 2025
ITT Preparation 23 April – 29 April 2025
ITT Publication 1 May 2025
ITT Clarification period opens 1 May 2025
ITT Clarification period closes 14 May 2025
ITT Clarification responses published 19 May 2025
ITT Submission deadline 28 May 2025
Evaluation / Moderation 2 - 6 June 2025
Intention to Award 9 June 2025
Alcatel period 10 June – 20 June 2025
Contract Award 23 June 2025
Draft Contract documentation 25 June 2025
Indicative Contract Phases
Start of Contract 2 July 2025
Inception meeting – London 2 July 2025
Discovery phase ends 18 July 2015
Proof of concept phase ends 10 October 2025
Pilot stage ends 16 January 2026
- Tender notice expected1 May 2025, 23:59 BST
- Contract starts2 Jul 2025, 00:00 BST
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 21 Mar 2025- Preliminary market engagement notice published21 Mar 2025, 16:14 GMTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published24 Mar 2025, 13:54 GMTUK2
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 (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender