Smart ticketing contracts

• The five suppliers that won the most smart ticketing contracts took 46% of them (25 of 55).
• The median contract, £943k, is 8.6 times the median across it & software contracts (£110k).
• London had the most contracts: 12, or 22% of the total.

1. 1Transport for Wales5 contracts£19.0m
2. 2West Midlands Combined Authority5 contracts£3.2m
3. 3GA TRAINS LIMITED3 contracts£62.1m
4. 4ScotRail2 contracts£83.8m
5. 5First Greater Western Limited2 contracts£24.2m
6. 6Transport for Greater Manchester2 contracts£10.1m
7. 7East Midlands Railway2 contracts£9.4m
8. 8TransPennine Express2 contracts£9.0m
9. 9Rail Delivery Group2 contracts£3.1m
10. 10Train Information Services Limited2 contracts£2.6m

1. 1Euclid Limited7 contracts£3.7m
2. 2Cubic Transportation Systems6 contracts£83.2m
3. 3Vix Technology UK Limited5 contracts£14.4m
4. 4Ticketer5 contracts£1.4m
5. 5Scheidt & Bachmann3 contracts£41.3m
6. 6Trainline.com Limited3 contracts£6.2m
7. 7SCHEIDT & BACHMANN (UK) LIMITED2 contracts£33.9m
8. 8Silver Rail2 contracts£4.5m
9. 9Unicard Limited2 contracts£1.6m
10. 10Indra Sistemas S.A.1 contract£2.0bn

Latest

• Procurement of Velociti Electronic Ticketing Machine (ETM) Data Analysis System (DAS) Contract Management Software (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £187k

  West Midlands Combined Authority to Velociti Solutions Limited · Awarded 25 September 2026

• Ticket Vending Machine Supply, Maintenance and Support (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £6.0m

  East Midlands Railway to SCHEIDT & BACHMANN (UK) LIMITED · Awarded 25 September 2026

• Provision of 12 x Handheld Electronic Ticket Machines (ETM's) (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  Value not published

  Transport for Wales to Ticketer · Awarded 8 September 2026

• Passenger Automatic Ticket Gates Support and Maintenance (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £19.1m

  GA TRAINS LIMITED to Cubic Transportation Systems · Awarded 7 September 2026

• LCRCA Multi-Modal Account Based Ticketing (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £6.4m

  Liverpool City Region Combined Authority to Vix Technology UK Limited · Awarded 7 September 2026

• Purchase of Passenger Automatic Ticket Gates for Various Stations (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £15.0m

  GA TRAINS LIMITED to Cubic Transportation Systems · Awarded 6 August 2026

• Metrolink Ticket Vending Machine Operation and Maintenance Service Agreement (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £9.7m

  Transport for Greater Manchester to Scheidt & Bachmann · Awarded 6 August 2026

• Invitation to Participate relating to an Arriva UK Trains (AUKT) Tender run on behalf of CrossCountry (XC) and Chiltern Railway Company (CRCL) for the Provision of an Onboard Mobile Ticketing and Information Systems. (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £5.3m

  ARRIVA UK TRAINS LIMITED to Worldline · Awarded 5 August 2026

• GoldSTAR Season Ticket Database (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £728k

  Transport for Wales to Team Technologies Limited · Awarded 4 August 2026

Largest

• TfL Revenue Collection Services - Project Proteus 24412 - Call for CompetitionTfL Revenue Collection Services - Project Proteus 24412 - Call for Competition (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £2.0bn

  Transport Trading Limited to Indra Sistemas S.A. · Awarded 15 January 2026

• Retail Systems Procurement (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £83.8m

  ScotRail to SilverRail Technologies · Awarded 29 May 2026

• Provision of Electronic Ticketing Machines and Automatic Vehicle Locators for Bus Franchising (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £31.3m

  West Yorkshire Combined Authority to Ticketer and Vix Technology UK Limited · Awarded 14 April 2026

• Ticket Vending Machines Support and Maintenance (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £27.9m

  GA TRAINS LIMITED to SCHEIDT & BACHMANN (UK) LIMITED · Awarded 10 June 2026

Smart and digital ticketing, fare capping and concessionary travel card management for transport authorities and operators, including ticket machines and on-train and station ticket issuing devices.

• Multi-operator fare capping
• Digital and smart ticketing platform
• Concessionary travel card management and production

• Real-time passenger information -> it.lob.real-time-passenger-information
• Parking payments -> it.lob.cashless-parking-payments
• Venue and attraction ticketing -> it.lob.cultural-venue-ticketing
• Retail EPOS -> it.ent.epos-retail-catering

• Telecare
• Building control software
• Traffic signals
• Digital forensics

• Train maintenance
• Skills bootcamps