Tender

Provision of Railway Estates Management Services: Retail, Commercial and Occupations

  • First Trenitalia West Coast Rail Limited
  • First MTR South Western Trains Limited
  • First Greater Western Railway Limited
  • First TransPennine Express Limited

F05: Contract notice – utilities

Notice identifier: 2022/S 000-004285

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-031759

Published 15 February 2022, 2:12pm



Section one: Contracting entity

one.1) Name and addresses

First Trenitalia West Coast Rail Limited

8th Floor The Point, 37 North Wharf Road

London

W2 1AF

Contact

Sabrina Hollingum

Email

sabrina.hollingum@firstrail.com

Country

United Kingdom

NUTS code

UKI32 - Westminster

Internet address(es)

Main address

https://www.avantiwestcoast.co.uk/

one.1) Name and addresses

First MTR South Western Trains Limited

8th Floor The Point, 37 North Wharf Road

London

W2 1AF

Contact

Sabrina Hollingum

Email

sabrina.hollingum@firstrail.com

Country

United Kingdom

NUTS code

UKI - London

Internet address(es)

Main address

https://www.southwesternrailway.com/

one.1) Name and addresses

First Greater Western Railway Limited

Milford House, 1 Milford St

Swindon

SN1 1HL

Contact

Sabrina Hollingum

Email

sabrina.hollingum@firstrail.com

Country

United Kingdom

NUTS code

UKK - South West (England)

Internet address(es)

Main address

https://www.gwr.com/

one.1) Name and addresses

First TransPennine Express Limited

8th Floor The Point, 37 North Wharf Road

London

W2 1AF

Contact

Sabrina Hollingum

Email

sabrina.hollingum@firstrail.com

Country

United Kingdom

NUTS code

UKI - London

Internet address(es)

Main address

https://www.tpexpress.co.uk/

one.2) Information about joint procurement

The contract involves joint procurement

The contract is awarded by a central purchasing body

one.3) Communication

The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge, at

http://redirect.transaxions.com/events/JGka4

Additional information can be obtained from the above-mentioned address

Tenders or requests to participate must be submitted electronically via

http://redirect.transaxions.com/events/JGka4

one.6) Main activity

Railway services


Section two: Object

two.1) Scope of the procurement

two.1.1) Title

Provision of Railway Estates Management Services: Retail, Commercial and Occupations

Reference number

FG001460

two.1.2) Main CPV code

  • 70000000 - Real estate services

two.1.3) Type of contract

Services

two.1.4) Short description

FirstRail Holdings (FRH) is looking to appoint an experienced RICS rail estate management consultancy to drive and deliver both higher rental income returns by increasing the rent roll and substantial customer service improvements through capital and tenant investment. Our built stations estate (which encompasses all property within our Leases including station buildings, car parks and other land and property.)

The scope of this requirement covers the provision of an estate management services provider for Great Western Railway, South Western Railway and Avanti West Coast and TransPennine Express Train Operating Contracts (TOCs). Please note that First Transpennine Express (TPE) is included within this tender as an optional "add on", however there is no guarantee that this TOC will be included in the final contract award. FRH reserve the right to include TPE and the associated service offering from the successful bidder at any point or not at all over the duration of the contract term utilising this tendering process.

two.1.5) Estimated total value

Value excluding VAT: £3,100,000

two.1.6) Information about lots

This contract is divided into lots: No

two.2) Description

two.2.3) Place of performance

NUTS codes
  • UK - United Kingdom

two.2.4) Description of the procurement

FirstRail Holdings (FRH) is looking to appoint an experienced RICS rail estate management consultancy to drive and deliver both higher rental income returns by increasing the rent roll and substantial customer service improvements through capital and tenant investment. Our built stations estate (which encompasses all property within our Leases including station buildings, car parks and other land and property.)

The scope of this requirement covers the provision of an estate management services provider for Great Western Railway, South Western Railway and Avanti West Coast and TransPennine Express Train Operating Contracts (TOCs). Please note that First Transpennine Express (TPE) is included within this tender as an optional "add on", however there is no guarantee that this TOC will be included in the final contract award. FRH reserve the right to include TPE and the associated service offering from the successful bidder at any point or not at all over the duration of the contract term utilising this tendering process.

The estate comprises of over 700 properties providing a broad mix of retail, office, residential and other commercial tenancies held on a mixture of leases and licences. For the avoidance of doubt this excludes the management of station car parking and commercial advertising.

The estate has generated a rental income to these FirstGroup TOCs of approximately £13.7m per annum pre-Covid pandemic, and budgeted income of £10.8m per annum year ending March 2023.

The proposed contract would be for an initial 3-year period up to 24th July 2025 with an option to extend for a further year up to July 2026.

The estimated value of the contract is expected to be approximately in the range of £2,456,764 and £4,176,500 excluding VAT for the full 4 years of the contract (this includes the optional one-year extension for all four TOCs). The anticipated range excluding TPE is in anticipated to be in the range of £2,292,547 - £3,897,330.92.

two.2.5) Award criteria

Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents

two.2.7) Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system

Duration in months

36

This contract is subject to renewal

Yes

Description of renewals

There is an optional 12 month extension on this contract.

two.2.10) Information about variants

Variants will be accepted: No

two.2.11) Information about options

Options: Yes

Description of options

3 year initial term contract, with the option to extend by an additional 12 months, subject to approvals.


Section four. Procedure

four.1) Description

four.1.1) Type of procedure

Negotiated procedure with prior call for competition

four.1.8) Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: No

four.2) Administrative information

four.2.2) Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate

Date

18 March 2022

Local time

12:00pm

four.2.4) Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted

English


Section six. Complementary information

six.1) Information about recurrence

This is a recurrent procurement: No

six.4) Procedures for review

six.4.1) Review body

FirstRail Holdings Ltd

London

Country

United Kingdom