Awarded contract

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

Details

Supplier(s)
Fujitsu Services
Topic
Ticket-validation machines
Published
21 July 2025

Tender 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. Lot 1: 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.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award published21 July 2025
    Current notice
  2. Completed: Award date31 July 2025

About the buyer

Northern Trains Ltd operates passenger rail services across the North of England as a publicly owned local transport organisation. DfT Operator has run the company since Northern returned to public ownership in March 2020.

Suppliers of safety-critical goods, works and services register on RISQS to gain audited status. A published pipeline lists upcoming tendering opportunities for engineering, construction and safety-critical projects each year.

Over the past 5 years, most of Northern Trains Ltd's contract awards have been in construction work, repair and maintenance and architectural and engineering services.

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