RSSB: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
Companies House: PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital)·Companies House: Private Limited Company·GOV.UK register: Other·Other public body·Greater London·London
Official UK PPONPVGN-9767-BLPT
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Tenders you can still bid for.
Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.
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Notices published in the last 12 months.
Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.
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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 10 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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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, 35 different suppliers.
Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.
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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.
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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
2 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1063173918 T1421 Uniformity and consistency of braking within a freight train | 2 Oct 2026 | 2d | £350,000 |
| 1067273293 T1419 Creating neuroinclusive principles to maximise train driver performance | 12 Oct 2026 | 12d | £80,000 |
What they buyi
What kind of work is bought here.
Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.
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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
73 Research and development services57 procedures · 68% · 2 open63 Supporting and auxiliary transport; travel2 procedures · 2%66 Financial and insurance services2 procedures · 2%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting2 procedures · 2%45 Construction work1 procedures · 1%71 Architectural, construction, engineering1 procedures · 1%How they buyi
How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
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How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
Last 24 months · 84 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim
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How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
- Contract 96% (81 notices)
- Framework 2% (2 notices)
- Dynamic purchasing system 1% (1 notices)
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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 55% (46 notices)
- Route not published 18% (15 notices)
- Direct award 14% (12 notices)
- Limited / restricted 13% (11 notices)
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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 10 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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How long this buyer takes to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from deadline to first award notice, on this buyer’s own tenders.
Based on 7 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.
Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.
Based on 84 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
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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 11 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
Who wins herei
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.
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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
| Supplier | Procedures | Share | Last 24m | Award records | Last activity |
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| OVE ARUP & PARTNERS LIMITED | 4 | 9.1% | 3 | 4 | 9 Dec 2025 |
| Russell Reynolds Associates Ltd | 3 | 6.8% | 3 | 3 | 15 Dec 2025 |
| Oktra Limited | 3 | 6.8% | 2 | 3 | 25 Apr 2025 |
| Railfreight Consulting Limited | 2 | 4.5% | 2 | 2 | 24 Sept 2025 |
| Clarity Travel Limited | 2 | 4.5% | 2 | 2 | 31 Mar 2025 |
| SYSTRA Limited | 2 | 4.5% | 2 | 2 | 31 Oct 2025 |
| Navitas Engineering | 2 | 4.5% | 1 | 2 | 4 Nov 2024 |
| Fortius VA Limited | 2 | 4.5% | 0 | 2 | 15 Aug 2024 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 23% of 44 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 35 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards — not a statement of preference.
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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.
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What one of this buyer’s contracts is usually worth.
Middle value of the same awards as the total above.
Largest published awards iThe 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. | Supplier | Awarded | Term | Published value |
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| 963400862 T1390 Making the case for network acceptance of simplified signalling connections for new low volume freight terminals | Railfreight Consulting Limited | — | 9 mo | £11,806,200 † |
| Travel Management Services | Clarity Travel Limited | — | — | £1,600,000 † |
| Front of House Services | Compass Contract Services (U.K.) Limited, trading as ESS Government Services | — | — | £722,135 † |
| Marketing Agency Services | Agent Marketing Limited | — | — | £600,000 † |
| Venue Management Services | Clarity Travel Limited | — | — | £400,000 † |
Contracts endingi
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.
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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 · 23 of 41 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| 978799118 T1398 Categorising platform/train stepping arrangements to assess and prioritise actions towards independent boarding | OVE ARUP & PARTNERS LIMITED | 1 Oct 2026 | £200,000 |
| DC Pensions Market Review | XPS Pensions Consulting Limited | 9 Oct 2026 | £42,615 |
| Non-Executive Director Recruitment Services | Russell Reynolds Associates Ltd | 14 Dec 2026 | £51,000 |
| Brand strategy and marketing support | McLaren Whitson Ltd | 28 Dec 2026 | £38,050 |
| Chief Digital Officer Recruitment Search | GatenbySanderson Limited | 25 Jan 2027 | £31,800 |
| Marketing Measurement Framework | Foundry Data Ltd | 16 Aug 2027 | £39,528 |
| 989217422 T1379- Validation and enhancement of train driver psychometric assessment, selection and recruitment for modern train operations in GB Rail | Work Psychology Group | 6 Jan 2028 | £236,913 |
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 103 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
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 (£21m, 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 36 procedures (40 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier, 1 with no supplier published). 11 values come from the contract record when the award carried none; 14 awards published only a VAT-inclusive amount and are counted but not valued.
- 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: 23 of 41 published contracts carry a period end; 7 end within 18 months, 5 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (12 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)
Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.
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