At a glance
FIRST TRENITALIA WEST COAST RAIL LIMITED has awarded £275.1m across 8 suppliers, with 42 live contracts.
Why: Top supplier share 94% · 37 open notices now · 1 award in last 90 d (£259.8m) · SME share 38% (Cabinet Office target 33%) · 1 modification in last 90 d.
About this buyer
Mission, scope and statutory context.
FIRST TRENITALIA WEST COAST RAIL LIMITED is a contracting authority, based in UKI32. Tracks 61 published notices and 10 awards on PublicSupply.
Spend profile
Award value by month — rolling 24 months. Line shows 12-month moving average.
Contract pipeline
Forward flow — planned notices through to completed awards in the last 90 days.
Planned
3
Open (bidding)
37
Awarded (90d)
1
Frameworks open
0
Procurement mix
How this buyer procures — by procedure, instrument, and publication source.
Contract type
Instrument type
Awarded contracts · 42 live
All contracts with a published award notice where FIRST TRENITALIA WEST COAST RAIL LIMITED is the contracting authority.
| Title | Supplier | CPV | Value | Awarded | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Provision of Retail Estate Management Services | — | 55900000 | £1.1mest. | — | active |
| First Cyber Security Tooling & Managed Services Tender | — | 48730000 | £3.4mest. | — | active |
| Provision of an end-to-end Catering Services | DHL SUPPLY CHAIN LIMITED | £259.8m | 14 May 2026 | pending | |
| Provision of Retail Estate Management Services | — | 55900000 | £1.1mest. | — | active |
| Estate Management | — | — | — | cancelled | |
| Local Information Control Centre (LICC) | WORLDLINE IT SERVICES UK LIMITED | £253k | — | pending | |
| RFI - TRAIN OPERATIONS OPTIMISATION AND PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT SUITE | — | 48100000 | — | — | planning |
| AWC Station & Accommodation Cleaning, Washroom Services, and Vegetation Management | CARLISLE CLEANING SERVICES LIMITED | £12.4m | 03 Mar 2026 | pending | |
| Estate Management | — | 55900000 | £1.1mest. | — | active |
| Provision of Uniforms at Avanti West Coast | — | 18222000 | £5.5mest. | — | active |
Top suppliers · by total award value
Ranked by cumulative awarded value. YoY = last 12 months vs prior 12 months.
Category spend breakdown
By CPV division · lifetime awards
Activity heatmap
Award volume by CPV division × month. Darker = more £ awarded.
Commercial & procurement leadership
Who signs off contracts, owns frameworks and runs SME engagement.
Curated leadership roster
Chief commercial officer, framework owners, SME lead and clinical sign-offs per buyer. Top-50 contracting authorities first, rolling out by sector.
Modifications · 1 in 90 d
Variations logged under Procurement Act 2023 s.74. Above-tolerance modifications attract a flag.
Per-modification s.74 classification + tolerance flagging
We see 1 notice tagged with a modification flag in the last 90 d. Next phase parses each one against PA 2023 s.74 limbs and surfaces above-tolerance flags.
Compliance & transparency
FOIA performance, statutory disclosures & prompt payment.
FOIA & prompt-payment ingestion
Notice timeliness and modification flags are derivable today. FOIA refusal rate, prompt-payment %, KPI reporting and net-zero plans need new data sources — work scoped, ingestion next quarter.
SME & social value
Performance against Cabinet Office targets & PPN 06/20.
target 33%
Peer benchmark
vs other buyers in the same type. Highlighted row = this buyer.
Compare against the peer group
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News mentions
Major UK press & trade publications.
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Statutory & accountability
Legal status, identifiers & accountable officers.
Identifiers & contact
- Type
- Contracting authority
- Region
- UKI32
- Companies House
- 10349442
- Contact
- Ruchiie Sehdev
- procurement@avantiwestcoast.co.uk
Board & accountable officers
Accountable officer + board roster
Pulled from gov.uk for arm's-length bodies and from Companies House for company-form buyers — chair, CEO, SRO and sign-off authority per contract band.
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