Provision of Ticketing Retailing Equipment and Support Services for use onboard rail services

Concepts

• railways equipment
• york
• ticket validation machines
• ticket issuing machines
• use onboard rail services
• onboard rail services
• ticket retailing
• digital tickets
• ticket selling
• support activities

Location

York

Description

Extension to the current agreement for the Provision of Ticketing Retailing Equipment and Support Services for use onboard rail services 'STARmobile' from 1 August 2025 until December 2026.

Total Quantity or Scope

Extension to the current agreement for the Provision of Ticketing Retailing Equipment and Support Services for use onboard rail services from 1 August 2025 until December 2026. This includes over 600 STARmobile devices and the support and maintenance of over 600 devices at 23 depots used in ticket selling, validation of digital tickets and processing of unpaid fares notices and penalty fares On the 12th March 2025 the current service provider published a notification of the End of Service Life (EOSL) for STARmobile and confirmed that this system will no longer be supported for operational for use beyond the end of 2026. Ticket retailing is critical activity for Northern Trains, and other Train Operating Companies (TOC's), and continuity in support activities until December 2026 will allow time for NTL to approach the market to source a replacement onboard train ticket retailing solution.

Award Detail

CPV Codes

• 50220000 - Repair, maintenance and associated services related to railways and other equipment
• 30123100 - Ticket-validation machines
• 30144200 - Ticket-issuing machines

Indicators

Legal Justification

Award a contract directly as this approach is allowed under the UCR's where restrictions on the use of IPR do not trigger a requirement to conduct a new OJEU-compliant tender process. We believe in this circumstance the following is applicable: There are grounds where NTL as public body could award a subsequent contract to a third party using the exemptions in Regulation 50 of the UCR. This exemption is provided for under the UCR Regulation 50(1)(c) which allows Utilities to award a contract where the works, supplies or services can be supplied only by a particular supplier because competition is absent for technical reasons and where no reasonable alternative or substitute exists. The supplier owns copyright and the IPR in all the software. The absence of competition is not the result of an artificial narrowing down of the parameters of the procurement The works, supplies or services can only be supplied only by a particular supplier because competition is absent for technical reasons and where no reasonable alternative or substitute exists. The supplier owns copyright and the IPR in all the software. The absence of competition is not the result of an artificial narrowing down of the parameters of the procurement.