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FIRST RAIL HOLDINGS LIMITED

Audit and Inspection activities associated with the Build and Acceptance of Class 701 Rolling Stock for South Western Railway.

TransportCPV 60000000
Value£850k
Deadline2 Apr 2021
Published3 Mar 2021
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 3 Mar 2021ClosedCloses 2 Apr 2021
Who to contact
Stephen Stewart
stephen.stewart@firstgroup.com
+44 7711149653

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£850ktotal contract value
median £64k
this tender£0£2.2m

This is a large award for Transport Services — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 20,160 valued Transport Services tenders in our corpus.

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The brief

SWR will be inviting tenders for the provision of support for audit and inspection activities associated with the build and acceptance of the Class 701 rolling stock.

A background in rolling stock quality auditing or commissioning is essential as is knowledge and understanding of relevant railway standards and their application.

Previous experience working with new build fleets, in particular Aventra platform design, is desirable.

Support is required from May 2021 to February 2022.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

SWR will be inviting tenders for

SWR will be inviting tenders for the provision of support for audit and inspection activities associated with the build and acceptance of the Class 701 rolling stock.

02

Support is required from May 2021

Support is required from May 2021 to February 2022.

Derived from the notice text — always confirm against the original documents.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0297e9
Stage
tender · Open
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
004232-2021
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