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Transport for Wales Rail Limited (Utility Buyer)

Rail Replacement Service - Bus and Coach Operators

TransportCPV 60170000
Value£81.0m
Deadline10 Jun 2026
Published22 May 2026
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 22 May 2026ClosedCloses 10 Jun 2026
Who to contact
Christine Thorne
TFW.RRSOperators@tfwrail.wales

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

How to submit
Open the submissions portal

The submission route named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£81.0mtotal contract value
median £64k
this tender£0£87.5m

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

Transport for Wales Rail (TfWRL) are in-housing the co-ordination and management of Rail Replacement Service (RRS) across Wales and Border routes operated by TfWRL within Wales and between Wales and England.

Or any such route operated by TfW as may arise in future.

This means that all pre-planned and emergency rail replacement services currently provided by coach and bus operators through an aggregator agreement, will be contracted for as services, directly by TfWRL.

This procurement also includes the requirement for adhoc travel services to be commissioned via this framework as they arise.

Based upon 24/25 Financial year data, approximately 6,000 emergency duties and 21,000 planned duties were delivered by circa 135 different operators.

It is currently intended the Open Framework will run for the maximum 8 year term.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-060348
Stage
tender · Open
Source
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Buyer ref
048289-2026
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