Railway transport services: UK Tenders, Buyers & Competition
CPV 60200000·Services · class·in Transport & Passenger Services
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Tenders you can still bid for.
Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed, counted the way the search counts them: a notice shows under every code and region it names.
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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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What a contract here is usually worth.
Middle value of published award values, VAT excluded. Framework ceilings are left out because they are not real contract values.
Based on 14 awards with a usable value, last 36 months.
Published values, not actual spend.
Newest open tenders
2 of 4 open for bids now · newest first
| Notice | Authority | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
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| Rail Haulage | NETWORK RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED | 2 Dec 2026 | 27d | £949,900,000 |
| Operation of RIDC Melton | NETWORK RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED | 25 Nov 2026 | 19d | £29,386,811 ceiling |
Codes and neighbouring classes
The 8-digit CPV codes notices in this class actually use, and the other classes of the same division
60200000 Railway transport services78 notices · 82%- Public road transport services 287 · 12m
- Road transport services 116 · 12m
- Hire of passenger transport vehicles with driver 79 · 12m
- Taxi services 77 · 12m
- Special-purpose road passenger-transport services 36 · 12m
- Non-scheduled passenger transport 18 · 12m
- Hire of goods-transport vehicles with driver 11 · 12m
- Hire of water transport equipment with crew 10 · 12m
- Air transport services 9 · 12m
- Non-scheduled air transport services 8 · 12m
- All of Transport & Passenger Services →
Who buysi
Which buyers publish the most notices here.
Buyers ranked by the number of notices, duplicate names merged.
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Which buyers publish the most notices here.
Buyers ranked by the number of notices, duplicate names merged.
All notices carrying this code · official UK_CA_TYPE where published (NHS bodies are central government authorities), else derived from the authority name
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What kinds of public bodies buy here.
Notices by the buyer’s type as published, otherwise by its name.
Central government36%(34 notices)
34 of 95 notices are Central government (36%).Other public bodies36%(34 notices)
34 of 95 notices are Other public bodies (36%).Local authorities8%(8 notices)
8 of 95 notices are Local authorities (8%).Police, fire & emergency1%(1 notice)
1 of 95 notices is Police, fire & emergency (1%).Not classified19%(18 notices)
18 of 95 notices are Not classified (19%).
| Contracting authority | Type | Notices | Last 12 months | Open now |
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| NETWORK RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED | Central government | 14 | 8 | 2 |
| Department for Transport | Central government | 14 | 0 | 0 |
| Rail Staff Travel Limited | Other public bodies | 9 | 2 | 0 |
| FIRST GREATER WESTERN LIMITED | Other public bodies | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| FIRST TRANSPENNINE EXPRESS LIMITED | not classified | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| WM TRAINS LIMITED | Other public bodies | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| Translink | Central government | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Transport for London | Other public bodies | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Transport for the North | Other public bodies | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| ABELLIO EAST MIDLANDS LIMITED | not classified | 2 | 0 | 0 |
33 distinct authorities in total · the ten most active shown.
Where the work is deliveredi
Where the work on these notices is delivered.
Delivery regions published on the notices. A notice with several regions counts in each.
Where the work is, not where the buyer is based.
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Where the work on these notices is delivered.
Delivery regions published on the notices. A notice with several regions counts in each.
Where the work is, not where the buyer is based.
Delivery regions (ITL1) published on 50 of 95 notices · a notice covering several regions counts in each · competition columns: contracts awarded in the last 36 months, lots delivered in the region
| Region | Notices | Bids / lot | SME wins | Local wins |
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| West Midlands | — | — | — | |
| North West England | — | — | — | |
| Greater London | — | — | — | |
| Yorkshire and the Humber | — | — | — | |
| South East England | — | — | — | |
| South West England | — | — | — | |
| Scotland | — | — | — | |
| North East England | — | — | — | |
| East Midlands | — | — | — | |
| East of England | — | — | — | |
| Wales (Cymru) | — | — | — | |
| Northern Ireland | — | — | — |
Local wins = the winner’s registered region is the delivery region. Dashes: fewer than ten observations.
How it is boughti
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.
Commercial tool, procedure route and threshold 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.
Contract91%(86 notices)
86 of 95 notices are Contract (91%).Framework9%(9 notices)
9 of 95 notices are Framework (9%).
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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.
Route not published33%(31 notices)
31 of 95 notices are Route not published (33%).Direct award21%(20 notices)
20 of 95 notices are Direct award (21%).Open17%(16 notices)
16 of 95 notices are Open (17%).Limited / restricted16%(15 notices)
15 of 95 notices are Limited / restricted (16%).Selective14%(13 notices)
13 of 95 notices are Selective (14%).
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How much of this market is above the legal threshold.
Notices by whether the buyer marked them above or below the threshold that triggers the full rules.
Above threshold62%(8 notices)
8 of 13 notices are Above threshold (62%).Below threshold38%(5 notices)
5 of 13 notices are Below threshold (38%).
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How long bidders get to respond.
Middle value in days from the tender notice to its deadline.
Competition
Contracts published in the last 36 months (34) · bid counts per lot from award notices · values are net contract awards, framework and DPS ceilings excluded · SME and local status as declared
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The usual range of contract values here.
The middle half of published award values, VAT excluded, with the middle value marked. Framework ceilings are left out.
Published values, not actual spend.
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How much of this market is actually put out to competition.
Notices run as an open or selective procedure, out of all notices that say which procedure was used. Direct awards count as not competed.
12 of 30 notices that state a procedure, last 36 months. 4 more are call-offs or give no procedure and are left out.
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What share of contracts go to small and medium firms.
Awards to a single supplier that declared its size. SME divided by all.
3 of 18 awards where the winner declared its size.
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How often a tender ends with no award.
Notices cancelled, withdrawn or marked unsuccessful, plus terminated ones that never got an award.
0 of 34 notices, last 36 months.
Only what buyers published. Tenders that quietly went nowhere are not counted.
Who winsi
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.
Ranked by distinct procedures won on notices carrying this code, then award records · 33 awards to 27 suppliers · the five most frequent winners hold 52% of contract awards in the last 36 months
| Supplier | Procedures | Awards | Last 12 months | Buyers |
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| Worldline IT Services UK Limited | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| Network Rail Infrastructure | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Cubic Transportation Systems Limited, | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Mott McDonald Limited | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| ANGEL TRAINS LIMITED | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| CMAC Group UK Ltd | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| CORE Nuclear Solutions Ltd | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| CORYS | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Where to submiti
Where bids for this work are submitted.
Notices by the portal in their submission link, where one is published.
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Where bids for this work are submitted.
Notices by the portal in their submission link, where one is published.
E-sourcing portals named in the submission address · 13 of 95 notices name one · each portal page explains registration
Open tenders in railway transport services
4 open for bids now · soonest deadline first
| Notice | Authority | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
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| Operation of RIDC Melton | NETWORK RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED | 25 Nov 2026 | 19d | £29,386,811 ceiling |
| Rail Haulage | NETWORK RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED | 2 Dec 2026 | 27d | £949,900,000 |
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly. Contracts Finder contracts appear on the Retender Radar, not yet in these figures.
- What counts here. Every notice with a CPV code starting 6020. A notice with several codes counts in each sector it names. Notices from 2021 to 3 Nov 2026.
- Competition. Bids and winners cover the last three years and count each lot as its own contest; frameworks and dynamic purchasing systems are shown apart from ordinary contracts.
- Why no total spend. Notice estimates often repeat a framework’s ceiling, so adding them up would overstate the market. Typical contract values are shown instead.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.