{"id":60349,"date":"2025-10-10T20:00:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T19:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=60349"},"modified":"2025-10-10T18:37:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T17:37:57","slug":"early-market-engagement-launched-for-new-supertram-trams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=60349","title":{"rendered":"Early market engagement launched for new Supertram trams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority (SYMCA) have started the process of procuring a new fleet of trams with the publication of an \u201cEarly Market Engagement\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The purpose of the \u201cEarly Market Engagement\u201d is to allow any interested organisations with appropriate experience to outline their views and ideas about the replacement and supply of the original fleet of trams which have operated in Sheffield since the first line opened in 1994.<\/p>\n<p>This is very much the first stage of plans for the replacement of the trams and it will be some time before the first tram touches the Supertram network and is carrying passengers.<\/p>\n<p>In the document it states that the total estimated value of the procurement would be \u00a3139.2 million (including VAT) and that the contract date would be between July 2027 and January 2031.<\/p>\n<p>The deadline for any companies to engage with the authority is 27<sup>th<\/sup> October 2025 and SYMCA expect to publish an official tender notice on or around 19<sup>th<\/sup> December 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority (SYMCA) have started the process of procuring a new fleet of trams with the publication of an \u201cEarly Market Engagement\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60350,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60349\/revisions\/60350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}