Official UK procurement notice
C-25-040 Supply of Two (2) Road-Rail Vehicles (RRVs) for the South Yorkshire Supertram Network
Authority: South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority (SYMCA) is seeking to procure two (2) new Road-Rail Vehicles (RRVs) for use on the South Yorkshire Supertram network. Each vehicle shall be configured as a complete OHLE maintenance vehicle, including the required working/access platform and associated mission equipment, together with full integration of the Authority-supplied OHLE pantograph, as defined in the Technical Specification.
The vehicles will be used primarily to support the inspection, maintenance and repair of the Supertram Overhead Line Equipment (OHLE), including planned maintenance and emergency response activities.
The vehicles shall be suitable for operation on both road and rail and shall be compatible with the relevant track, infrastructure and operating conditions across the Supertram network.
The Authority anticipates that the contract will start on 01/03/2026 and will run for a period of 6 years and 6 months comprising of an estimated 18 months programme for design, manufacture, delivery, testing and final acceptance, following by 5 years warranty, and optional maintenance term.
The Authority reserves the right to extend the warranty contract for a further 1 x 24 months subject to satisfactory performance.
CPV: Railway maintenance or service vehicles
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1RenewalPublished value£1,000,000
What 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).
Published sub-criteria (3)
- Quality: 55%
- Total prices items: 35%
- Social Value: 10%
Published award criteria (3)
- Quality: Technical Compliance Method Statement - 30% Certification, Testing and Acceptance - 15% Technical Risks - 5% Delivery Programme - 15% Spare Parts Provision - 13% Warranty - 12% Maintenance and Support - 5% Modification Experience - 5%
- Total prices items
- Social Value
No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.
- Price carries 35 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 3.5 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
- Turnover usually expected at this size: about £307,244 (twice the annual value).
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula. Turnover is an indicative market norm (≈2× annual value), not a published condition.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority buys Passenger cars (CPV 3411), and who usually turns up
South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority’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: Passenger cars (CPV 3411) →
How the contest usually goes
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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 Yorkshire and the Humber.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside 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 54 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.
Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.
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 bid4% / 15%
2–326% / 31%
4–633% / 46%
7+37% / 8%
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 estimate50% / 36%
Within ±2%45% / 36%
Above estimate5% / 29%
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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.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
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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 3462Published estimate£1.0m
This lot is listed as CPV 3462. The table above uses the notice category.
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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.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid8%
2–333%
4–650%
7+9%
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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.
Based on 24 comparable awards. Each lot reflects its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
Middle 50%£956k–£1.0m
Estimate£1.0m
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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| Bamford Bus Company Ltd Trading as WrightbusWorked for this buyer | Call off for the Supply of Busesruns to Jul 2030 | — | £275m | Similar wording and category |
| Alexander-Dennis LtdWorked for this buyer | Call off for the Supply of Busesruns to Jul 2030 | — | £275m | Similar wording and category |
| Pelican Engineering Company (Sales) LimitedWorked for this buyer | Call off for the Supply of Busesruns to Jul 2030 | — | £275m | Similar wording and category |
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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.
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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.
| Supplier | Won in this category | Live contracts | Award vs estimate |
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| 1 award in 36m · last 3 months ago | None on file | no comparable pairs | |
| £60m17 awards in 36m · last 2 months ago | 3 live · £4.6m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=6 | |
Alexander-Dennis LtdLarge | £68m7 awards in 36m · last 3 months ago | 5 live · £68m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | 13% above n=4 |
CAF RAIL UK LIMITEDLarge | £375m7 awards in 36m · last 5 months ago | 2 live · £304m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | no comparable pairs |
| £46m7 awards in 36m · last 3 months ago | 3 live · £104m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | 28% above n=2 |
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.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Open for tender
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Utilities
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 25 Feb 2026, 13:02 GMT
- Last source update
- 26 Oct 2026, 13:25 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 25 Jan 2027
- Authority reference
DN834055- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-101019- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-065c00Find a Tender
- Risks
- Risk of legislative changes, regulatory changes or changes in law during the term of the contract.
- Risk of unforeseen circumstances that cause the value of the contract to increase or decrease (previous examples include BREXIT, war, trade-tariffs, pandemic and the cost-of-living crisis)
- Risk of unforeseen political impact.
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via ProContract (Due North)- Requests to participate (first stage)
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- Tender submission deadline
- 30 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
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- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
All tender documentation is available by expressing an interest in project id DN834055 via the ProContract website:
Timeline
25 Feb 2026 → 1 Mar 2027 · 7 dates- Planning notice published244 days ago25 Feb 2026, 13:02 GMT
- Market engagement218 days ago23 Mar 2026, 23:59 GMT
Any interested suppliers are asked to register on ProContract where further information is available.
Ref DN808105
- Next notice expected148 days ago1 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST
- Tender notice published39h ago26 Oct 2026, 13:25 GMT
- Today28 Oct 2026
- Submission deadlinein 33 days30 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Award decision expected byin 89 days25 Jan 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 123 days1 Mar 2027
Notice history
7 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 25 Feb 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published25 Feb 2026, 13:02 GMTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published25 Feb 2026, 14:11 GMTUK2
- Tender notice published26 Oct 2026, 13:25 GMTUK4
- Published value updated to £1,000,00026 Oct 2026, 13:25 GMTwas £0
- Status changed to active26 Oct 2026, 13:25 GMT
- Procurement method changed26 Oct 2026, 13:25 GMT
- Deadline published: 30 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT26 Oct 2026, 13:25 GMT
Published amendments (1)
Change to submission details to be submitted via ProContract.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- 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 (3)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender