Docklands Light Railway System Management Centre Renewal

A Contract Award Notice
by TRANSPORT FOR LONDON

Source: Find a Tender
Type: Contract ()
Duration: not specified
Value: £17M

Sector: MISCELLANEOUS
Published: 30 Sep 2025
Delivery: not specified
Deadline: n/a

Concepts

Location

Geochart for 1 buyers and 1 suppliers

1 buyer

Transport for London London

1 supplier

Hitachi Rail GTS London

Description

The required works are to renew the current Docklands Light Railway System Management Centre (SMC) and subsystems located in Beckton and Poplar control centres. The works include, but may not be limited to, replacement of SMC Servers, SMC Workstations, SMC Remote Workstations, Networking Hardware, Software, Cabling, Operational Training Workstations, spares provisions, updated installation, maintenance & operating procedures and operational & maintenance system training.

Award Detail

1	Hitachi Rail GTS (London) Reference: 1 Value: £17,000,000

CPV Codes

None found

Legal Justification

Hitachi is the only supplier that can provide the required works for renewal of the System Management Centre (SMC) as they have exclusive ownership of the intellectual property rights (IPR) associated with the design, software and hardware of the Automatic Train Control (ATC) signalling system currently deployed at Docklands Light Railway. The SMC is a subsystem of the ATC signalling system. Access to Hitachi's software or source codes by other suppliers would invalidate the safety assurances given by Hitachi, in its capacity as the signalling design authority, that the system is and continues to be fit for purpose and safe to operate.