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West Midlands Combined Authority

Transforming Real Time Passenger Information- Ref 05052-2023

Office & Computing EquipmentCPV 48813200
Value£8,840,666
Deadline14 Aug 2026
Published15 Jul 2026
RegionNationwide

£8,840,666 — stated in the notice

Timeline
Published 15 Jul 2026ClosedCloses 14 Aug 2026
Who to contact
Bhupinder Chadha
bhupinder.chadha@wmca.org.uk
+44 0

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

How to submit
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Contract value in context
£8.8mtotal contract value
median £91k
this tender£0£9.5m

This is a large award for Software & IT Systems — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 30,286 valued Software & IT Systems tenders in our corpus.

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West Midlands Combined Authority has published 6 Software & IT Systems notices, about every 4 months. On that rhythm the next one is expected around October 2026.

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The brief

This tender is for the provision of a sole provider for the purchase and maintenance of Real Time Information Passenger Screens (RTPI), a Content Management System (CMS), annual maintenance and support, and a customer services helpdesk.

The WMCA now seeks to form a long-term partnership with a single provider for both hardware, software, customer services, development and innovation.

The rationale being to provide a managed service, with consistency, clearly defined responsibilities, streamlined products and supply chain, and facilitate interoperability.

In order to take part in this invitation to Tender, Suppliers must ensure they are registered on to the Government Central Digital Platform.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

This tender is for the provision

This tender is for the provision of a sole provider for the purchase and maintenance of Real Time Information Passenger Screens (RTPI), a Content Management System (CMS), annual maintenance and support, and a customer services helpdesk.

02

The rationale being to provide a managed

The rationale being to provide a managed service, with consistency, clearly defined responsibilities, streamlined products and supply chain, and facilitate interoperability.

03

In order to take part in this

In order to take part in this invitation to Tender, Suppliers must ensure they are registered on to the Government Central Digital Platform.

Sentences from the notice that state an obligation, surfaced automatically and shown in the order they appear. Not an exhaustive list — always confirm against the tender documents.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0568fa
Stage
tender · Open
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
066904-2026
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Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source data © Crown copyright.

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