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How to win: Lightweight Step Free Platforms

A goods contract from Transport for London, worth £120,000. Below: what it involves and how to write a winning bid for it.

Buyer

Transport for London

Value

£120,000

About this contract

Supply of lightweight, modular, temporary fall prevention platforms, designed to sit within the deep section of the suicide pits, providing a robust working surface and a step free interface with the adjacent shallower section suicide pit area of London Underground (LU) station platforms.

How to win contracts like this

✓Answer against the marking scheme, not the question text — Transport for London scores each response, so map your evidence to the published criteria and weightings.
✓At £120,000, expect quality and social value to carry a large share of the score — price alone rarely wins goods work.
✓Show recent, comparable delivery: name similar goods contracts you've delivered for public bodies, with measurable outcomes.
✓Start early: deadlines are tight and a strong bid takes iteration.

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