Awarded contract

Upgrade to the rail industry's central computerised ticket revenue, allocation and apportionment system (LENNON and ORCATS)

Details

Buyer: Rail Settlement Plan Limited
Supplier(s): Worldline IT Services UK Limited
Value: £60,312,000
Duration: 7 years
Topic: Railway transport services
Published: 16 June 2025
Source: uk:find_a_tender

Tender description

The implementation of a new and improved Lennon system, which is provided by Worldline. The Future Lennon Programme seeks to deliver an enhanced system, including replacing the ORCATS allocation factor calculator, with one that enables a more realistic approach to revenue allocation using increased volumes of data based on near real-life journeys taken by passengers. The enhancement programme compromises: (i) Implementation of new allocation factor calculator hosted in the Cloud (ii) Upgrade of Lennon to refactor software for greater sustainability and supportability and to accommodate output from new allocation factor calculator (iii) Transferring Lennon to a Cloud hosted environment ## Contract award Title: Lennon Modernisation ## Contract award

Timeline

Completed: Award published16 June 2025
Current notice
Completed: Award date16 June 2025
Next: Contract expiry date31 August 2032in 6 years

About the buyer

Rail Settlement Plan Limited is a division of the Rail Delivery Group, running the ticketing and revenue settlement systems shared across Britain's train operating companies. The Rail Delivery Group runs this procurement centrally on behalf of the train operators it represents. Recent contracts have covered back-office systems, software support and equipment maintenance for the settlement platform. Rail Settlement Plan also sets the technical standards that ticket issuing systems across the industry must meet.

Over the past 5 years, most of Rail Settlement Plan Limited's contract awards have been in transport support and travel services, IT services and repair and maintenance.

Decision makers

Connect with the people behind this procurement.

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Head of Procurement	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@rail-settlement-plan-limited.gov
Commercial Director	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@rail-settlement-plan-limited.gov
Procurement Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@rail-settlement-plan-limited.gov
Category Lead	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@rail-settlement-plan-limited.gov
Senior Buyer	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@rail-settlement-plan-limited.gov
Contracts Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@rail-settlement-plan-limited.gov