Spend profile

Award value by month — rolling 24 months. Line shows 12-month moving average.

£31.9m
12 m spend
£3.1m
Prior 12 m
+920%
YoY change
£501k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Transport for Wales Rail Limited (Utility Buyer) — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£2.3m£4.6m£6.9m£9.2mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

Forward flow — planned notices through to completed awards in the last 90 days.

Planned

13

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

1

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

3

£11.5m

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes
10 recorded contracts worth £8.9m end within 12 months.View expiry radar →

Procurement mix

How this buyer procures — by procedure, instrument, and publication source.

Contract type

services89 · £330.5m
goods15 · £178.8m
Unspecified79 · £48.4m
works7 · £5.2m

Instrument type

contract190 · £563.0m
Source:Find a Tender: 190

Awarded contracts · 40 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Transport for Wales Rail Limited (Utility Buyer) is the contracting authority.

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Top suppliers · by total award value

Ranked by cumulative awarded value. YoY = last 12 months vs prior 12 months.

1
VT
3 contracts · SME · 26 Nov
£38.7mest.
2
SB
2 contracts · 07 May
£13.2m
3
SR
1 contract
£4.1m
4
DC
1 contract · 26 Jun
£3.6m
5
IL
2 contracts · SME · 26 Jun
£2.5m
6
CR
4 contracts · 24 Mar
£2.3m
7
OI
3 contracts · 12 Jan
£2.3mest.
8
OB
8 contracts · 09 Feb03 Mar
£2.1m
960
···
52 other suppliers
long tail · 12 SMEs
£16.9m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Transport services
4 contracts
£234.4m
42%
Petroleum, fuel, energy
2 contracts
£152.0m
27%
Other
81 contracts
£60.8m
11%
Repair & maintenance
7 contracts
£45.6m
8%
Business, legal, advisory
7 contracts
£32.5m
6%
Installation services
1 contract
£25.0m
5%
Software packages, IT
4 contracts
£2.2m
0%
Transport equipment, vehicles
3 contracts
£1.5m
0%

Activity heatmap

Award volume by CPV division × month. Darker = more £ awarded.

Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Transport services
Petroleum, fuel, energy
Other
0
3
4
8
2
1
2
0
7
4
Repair & maintenance
Business, legal, advisory
Installation services
LessMore (£m awarded)

Commercial & procurement leadership

Who signs off contracts, owns frameworks and runs SME engagement.

Coming Q3 2026

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 · 2 in 90 d

Variations logged under Procurement Act 2023 s.74. Above-tolerance modifications attract a flag.

Coming Q3 2026

Per-modification s.74 classification + tolerance flagging

We see 2 notices 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.

Coming Q4 2026

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.

30%
SME supplier share
target 33%
29
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
60
Distinct suppliers
23%
SME share of awarded value
where SME status recorded
7%
Local suppliers (CF postcodes)
1 of 14 with known office
0%
Value to local suppliers
£93k of £46.8m
23%
Postcode coverage
14 of 60 matched suppliers
Local = Companies House registered office in the CF postcode area — not trading address, so national firms registered locally count and local branches of elsewhere-registered firms don't. Percentages are of suppliers with a known registered office.
⚠ Below target. SME supplier share at 30% vs Cabinet Office target of 33%.

Peer benchmark

vs other buyers in the same type. Highlighted row = this buyer.

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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
UKL15
Contact
Christine Thorne
Email
procurement@tfw.wales

Board & accountable officers

Coming Q3 2026

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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