Office of Rail and Road: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

GOV.UK register: Non-ministerial departmentCentral governmentGreater LondonLondon

Official UK PPONPMPH-6471-MDYY

Open now4next deadline 2 Oct 2026
i

Tenders you can still bid for.

Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.

Notices, last 12 months37+37% vs prior 12 months (27)
i

Notices published in the last 12 months.

Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.

Top-3 supplier share18%of 44 awarded procedures · 37 suppliers
i

How much of this buyer’s work goes to its three most frequent suppliers.

Share of its awarded tenders that name at least one of the top three. Each tender is counted once.

44 awarded tenders, 37 different suppliers.

Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.

All awards we hold.

Contracts ending ≤18 months63 within 6 months
i

Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.

Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.

A likely retender, not a certain one.

Published award value, 24m£11mnet · on 39 of 41 single-supplier awards · top 5 = 82%
i

How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.

Sum of award values to single suppliers, VAT excluded, on notices from the last 24 months. Framework ceilings and repeated totals are left out.

Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.

Open notices

4 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build

What they buy
i

What kind of work is bought here.

Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.

Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each

How they buy
i

How work here is packaged.

Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.

Last 24 months · 64 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim

Commercial tool
i

How work here is packaged.

Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.

  • Contract 95% (61 notices)
  • Framework 5% (3 notices)
Procedure route
i

Which procedures buyers here use.

Notices by the procedure they declare: open, selective, limited or direct. Open and selective are competitions; limited and direct are not.

  • Open 73% (47 notices)
  • Route not published 20% (13 notices)
  • Direct award 5% (3 notices)
  • Limited / restricted 2% (1 notices)
Typical bids per lot
i

How many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.

Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.

Based on 1 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.

Last 24 months, all categories.

3indicative · n=10% of lots drew a single bid
Notice amendments
i

How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.

Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.

Based on 64 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

023 of 64 notices amended
Award vs estimate
i

Do this buyer’s awards land above or below its own estimates.

Each lot’s published estimate against its award, on this buyer’s competitions, like for like.

Based on 20 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

Last 24 months.

7.8% below estimaterobust · n=20

Who wins here
i

Which suppliers win the most here.

Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.

All published awards naming a supplier · ranked by distinct procedures, not pounds · panel and call-off entries inflate award records

SupplierProceduresShareLast 24mAward recordsLast activity
EUROPEAN ECONOMIC RESEARCH LIMITEDframework/DPS on 149.1%3410 Sept 2025
CEPA LLP36.8%2311 Nov 2025
REBEL INFRASTRUCTURE ASSETS & OPERATIONS UK LTD24.5%2231 Jul 2025
CPCS Transcom UK Ltd24.5%2217 Dec 2025
FURRER + FREY GB LIMITED24.5%229 Oct 2025
HAYS SPECIALIST RECRUITMENT LIMITED12.3%1114 Aug 2025
AECOM LIMITED12.3%1114 Apr 2026
STEER DAVIES & GLEAVE LIMITED12.3%1115 Jan 2025

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 18% of 44 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 37 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards — not a statement of preference.

Published award value (24m)
i

How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.

Sum of award values to single suppliers, VAT excluded, on notices from the last 24 months. Framework ceilings and repeated totals are left out.

Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.

£11mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 39 of 41 single-supplier awards; the five largest make 82%.
Typical single-supplier award (24m)
i

What one of this buyer’s contracts is usually worth.

Middle value of the same awards as the total above.

Last 24 months.

£54k middle valuerobust · n=39Middle half £43k–£90k.
Largest published awards
i

The biggest published awards.

Awards to a single supplier with a published value, largest first, so you can check the totals against the notice.

A repeated framework total can appear here. Open the notice to check.

SupplierAwardedTermPublished value
Measuring Whole industry total factor productivity (TFP) of the railway in Great BritainEUROPEAN ECONOMIC RESEARCH LIMITED—4 mo£7,968,125 †
CP7 Recalibration of the Network Rail Passenger Schedule 8 RegimeSTEER DAVIES & GLEAVE LIMITED——£205,704 †
Oracle Managed Support ServiceVersion 1 Solutions Limited—3 yrs · up to 5 yrs£201,000 †
≈ £67k/yr
Whole System Monitoring & Rail Reform Strategic SupportCPCS Transcom UK Ltd—3 mo · up to 0.5 yrs£177,898 †
IT Help Desk OutsourcingStone Technologies Ltd t/a Converge Technology Solutions—1 yrs · up to 4 yrs£145,385 †
≈ £145k/yr

Contracts ending
i

Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.

Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.

A likely retender, not a certain one.

Published end dates only · 39 of 44 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast

Recent procedures

Latest 50 of 68 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
Power Platform Application Support and DevelopmentIT services: consultingAwarded / complete26 Aug 2026£144,000
Operations analysis of applications for train services between Newcastle and Brighton and Cardiff and YorkTransport systems consultancy servicesOpen11 Aug 2026£45,000
Cost Benefit Analysis for competing Great Western Mainline track access applications - Independent AuditResearch and development consultancy servicesOpen6 Aug 2026£40,000
Third party review of National Highways licence self-assuranceInternal audit servicesOpen4 Aug 2026£40,000
GBR Integration StudyBusiness and management consultancy servicesOpen8 Jul 2026£110,000
Managed Payroll ServicesPayroll management servicesOpen7 Jul 2026£114,000
Consultant for Framework Review (ISC and PCT)FrameworkResearch consultancy servicesOpen7 Jul 2026£20,000
Organisation Development ConsultancyBusiness and management consultancy and related servicesOpen23 Jun 2026£170,000
Capacity of railway supply chain to meet key future funding period requirementsEvaluation consultancy servicesAwarded / complete28 May 2026£50,000
ORR rail operations consultancy on West Coast Mainline timetabling issuesAwarded / complete20 Apr 2026—
A review of National Highways' culture, approach, and processes to promote, incentivise and embed innovationBusiness and management consultancy servicesAwarded / complete14 Apr 2026£80,000
​​ORR rail operations consultancy on West Coast Mainline and Wales and Western operational issues​Evaluation consultancy servicesOpen12 Mar 2026£30,000
A review of National Highways' maintenance of biodiversity and water quality assetsEnvironmental monitoring other than for constructionAwarded / complete9 Mar 2026£60,000
CEO Partner RecruitmentAwarded / complete5 Mar 2026—
Building the Office of Rail and Road data catalogueInformation technology servicesAwarded / complete26 Feb 2026£50,000
Language Interpretation and Document Translation Services2 lotsInterpretation servicesOpen24 Feb 2026£165,000
Retail Code of Practice - Rail ReformBusiness and management consultancy and related servicesOpen13 Feb 2026£110,000
Rail Network Investment FrameworkFrameworkFinancial consultancy servicesAwarded / complete5 Jan 2026£49,500
Whole System Monitoring & Rail Reform Strategic SupportBusiness and management consultancy and related servicesAwarded / complete17 Dec 2025£166,666
Review of Lifts and Escalators Asset ManagementBuilding consultancy servicesAwarded / complete3 Dec 2025£50,000

Search all 68 procedures for this authority →

Data coverage & method
  • Source: Find a Tender OCDS releases; mixed PCR 2015 / Procurement Act 2023 history — no legal-regime label is applied.
  • Counts are procedures (one notice family), not lots. Authority cluster = canonical buyer plus beneficiary and procuring-entity roles.
  • Published procedure values exist on a minority of notices; their lifetime sum (£3.6m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
  • Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 41 award records on 41 procedures (41 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). 38 values come from the contract record when the award carried none.
  • Bid counts, deadline-to-award, amendments and award-vs-estimate come from the nightly buyer analytics row; each figure’s own method and sample is behind its , the long form on Methodology.
  • Contract end dates: 39 of 44 published contracts carry a period end; 6 end within 18 months, 3 within 6.
  • Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (5 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)

Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.

GB-FTS-135026GB-FTS-33254GB-FTS-41939GB-FTS-60940GB-FTS-85166

Canonical page id: GB-PPON-PMPH-6471-MDYY