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Cubic Transportation Systems scored poorly with its tender for Transport for London’s revenue-collection contract, contended the authority in its response to Cubic’s lawsuit. The ongoing suit seeks to overturn TfL’s decision to award the contract to another vendor, Indra Systems. The transport agency said it could have rejected Cubic’s tender on multiple grounds.
• Document: TfL’s response to Cubic’s lawsuit, Oct. 2025
• Document: Cubic’s amended particulars of claim, Oct. 2025
• TfL (London)
• Cubic
• Indra
• Rebel Group
Transport for London contends that it would have rejected Cubic Transportation Systems’ tender for the agency’s revenue-collection contract even if the vendor had not been automatically knocked out of the competition by failing the first technical question, TfL states in its first response to Cubic’s lawsuit.
The transport agency’s highly critical response or defense, filed just days ago in the High Court of Justice in London, largely reveals for the first time why TfL chose Indra Systems over Cubic.


