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Railway transport services. The DfT is seeking to appoint an appropriately experienced and qualified transport operator to operate the Thameslink rail passenger franchise. Expressions of interest are now being sought from the market and shortlisted potential providers will receive the invitation to tender planned to be issued in October 2012. It is expected that the successful bidder will be announced in May 2013 with the contract commencing in September 2013. The length of the franchise will be a minimum of 7 years with pricing also required for a potential extension of up to 2 years at the discretion of the secretary of state. The Thameslink Franchise will: — include all services that are currently operated by the First Capital Connect ('FCC') franchise from September 2013, — at a point between April and December 2014 the franchise would include some services currently operated by Southeastern. These services would be all those that are jointly operated by FCC and Southeastern at present, and some further current Southeastern services which may be transferred to enable the implementation of the full Thameslink service operations, — include all the services operated by the current Southern franchise at some time between July 2014 and July 2017; and, — operate until 2020 (unless the secretary of state exercises her contractual rights to extend beyond this date) allowing for the Thameslink programme infrastructure works to be completed, the new Thameslink programme rolling stock to be fully deployed, the new train control systems to be commissioned and the future Thameslink timetable to be implemented. The franchise operator may be required to provide up to GBP 100 000 000 as a final delivery payment for the planned new rolling stock for the current South Central Franchise. The GBP 100 000 000 will be required as a cash payment and is expected to be required between September 2013 and July 2017. It is expected that the cash payment can be used, in part, by the franchise operator to offset the funding requirements of the performance bond and the season ticket bond, which may be secured with a loan agreement with the current South Central Franchise operator.

Thameslink franchise letting.

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