Official UK procurement notice
Administration of the Network Rail Private Medical Healthcare Trust Scheme
Authority: NETWORK RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNetwork Rail requires a supplier to administer its private healthcare trust offering to its management grade employees (Bands 1-4).
High level requirements are:
- Supplier to administer Network Rail’s contractual private medical healthcare benefit to management grade employees (Bands 1-4) and controller grades. This is approximately 13,900 employees.
- This is to be a Healthcare Trust scheme. This will be through a Trust Deed, as is being used now, not a Master Trust.
- The scheme must be administered with a specific stop loss (SSL) agreement set at appropriate levels.
- The scheme must offer senior leaders family cover and for everyone else the ability to add on partners and dependants at an additional cost. There should be four levels of cover: Single, Married, Single Parent Family and Family.
- The scheme must offer clinical pathways to treatment without a need for a General Practitioner (GP) referral, such as (but not limited to) certain types of cancer, physiotherapy, osteopathy, and mental health support.
- The scheme rates should offer affordability to all Network Rail employees, taking into consideration the demographics within the organization.
- The scheme must have geographic coverage across Great Britain to cover all routes and regions Network Rail operates in.
- The number of employees utilizing the service may vary depending on how the business develops; as such, the services must have flexibility to be scaled at short notice.
- As a public sector organization, Network Rail abides by the Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED) and takes its duties to eliminate discrimination, advance equality of opportunity, and foster good relations between different people when carrying out its activities very seriously. We require all our suppliers, as representatives of the company, to adhere to the same standards in everyday practices.
- The authority expects to re-tender this requirement around 1 Jun 2034, 23:59 BST.
- How the procedure runs: This procurement will be conducted under the Procurement Act 2023 using the Competitive Flexible Procedure. Network Rail will carry out a single stage tender process including a Qualification Envelope containing exclusion ground checks and assessment against Conditions of Participation followed by evaluation and moderation of Technical and Commercial Envelope responses to determine the Most Advantageous Tender. A full explanation of the process has been detailed in the Instructions to Participants document which can be found within the Bravo opportunities listing at networkrail.bravosolution.co.uk
CPV: Administrative healthcare services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1RenewalPublished value£231,784,821
- Economic & financial standing
Detailed conditions of participation are set out in the Instructions to Participants document, which will be made available via the Network Rail Sourcing Platform (Bravo).
Candidates must confirm that they have the legal capacity to perform the contract under the laws of England and Wales, are registered on the Central Digital Platform (CDP), and are not subject to mandatory exclusion grounds or listed on the debarment list.
All entities who are relied upon to meet the criteria are required to provide their own up-to-date core information on the Central Digital Platform (CDP).
Candidates must demonstrate that they have the financial capacity to perform the contract by meeting the following minimum requirements:
. Completion of the Network Rail Financial and Economic Standing Model and achieving a pass score in accordance with the model's criteria.
. Confirm ability to obtain required insurances.
. Confirm ability to meet other conditions of participation related but not limited to legal capacity, GDPR, prompt payment and tackling modern slavery.
Please refer to the Instructions to Participants for full details.
- Technical & professional ability
Candidates must evidence experience of their technical ability by providing evidence of one previous contract that is relevant to our requirements.
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published sub-criteria (2)
- Technical: 70%
- Commercial: 30%
Published award criteria (2)
- Technical: A high-level summary of the Technical Envelope themes is outlined below. The Technical Envelope will consist of sub-sections, each carrying a percentage weighting: Confirmation of Capacity and Capability Service Delivery Technical Experience and Capability Mobilisation and Ongoing Delivery Information Security, Data Protection & Residency Commercial Controls Service Levels Social Value - Health & Wellbeing Social Value - Diversity & inclusion Full details are in the Instructions to Participants.
- Commercial: A pricing document is provided for completion. Responses will be evaluated per line on a proportional versus best-value basis. Full details are in the Instructions to Participants.
- Economic & financial standing
Detailed conditions of participation are set out in the Instructions to Participants document, which will be made available via the Network Rail Sourcing Platform (Bravo).
Candidates must confirm that they have the legal capacity to perform the contract under the laws of England and Wales, are registered on the Central Digital Platform (CDP), and are not subject to mandatory exclusion grounds or listed on the debarment list.
All entities who are relied upon to meet the criteria are required to provide their own up-to-date core information on the Central Digital Platform (CDP).
Candidates must demonstrate that they have the financial capacity to perform the contract by meeting the following minimum requirements:
. Completion of the Network Rail Financial and Economic Standing Model and achieving a pass score in accordance with the model's criteria.
. Confirm ability to obtain required insurances.
. Confirm ability to meet other conditions of participation related but not limited to legal capacity, GDPR, prompt payment and tackling modern slavery.
Please refer to the Instructions to Participants for full details.
- Technical & professional ability
Candidates must evidence experience of their technical ability by providing evidence of one previous contract that is relevant to our requirements.
- Price carries 30 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 3 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Competitive flexible procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Closed
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Utilities
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Yes · next expected 1 Jun 2034
- First published
- 7 Nov 2025, 12:10 GMT
- Last source update
- 27 May 2026, 14:58 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 23 Nov 2026
- Authority reference
PRJ44740- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-049791- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05dcb3Find a Tender
- How it runs
This procurement will be conducted under the Procurement Act 2023 using the Competitive Flexible Procedure.
Network Rail will carry out a single stage tender process including a Qualification Envelope containing exclusion ground checks and assessment against Conditions of Participation followed by evaluation and moderation of Technical and Commercial Envelope responses to determine the Most Advantageous Tender.
A full explanation of the process has been detailed in the Instructions to Participants document which can be found within the Bravo opportunities listing at networkrail.bravosolution.co.uk
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 30 Jun 2026, 15:00 BST
- Clarification deadline
- 19 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge, at:
networkrail.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.html ↗
The link provides access to complete and submit the tender.
Timeline
7 Nov 2025 → 1 Apr 2027 · 8 dates- Planning notice published354 days ago7 Nov 2025, 12:10 GMT
- Market engagement340 days ago21 Nov 2025, 23:59 GMT
Supplier Engagement Day planned for 4th December
- Tender notice published153 days ago27 May 2026, 14:58 BST
- Clarification questions by130 days ago19 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST
- Submission deadline119 days ago30 Jun 2026, 15:00 BST
- Today28 Oct 2026
- Award decision expected byin 26 days23 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Next notice expectedin 154 days31 Mar 2027, 23:59 BST
- Contract startsin 154 days1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
6 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 7 Nov 2025- Preliminary market engagement notice published7 Nov 2025, 12:10 GMTUK2
- Tender notice published27 May 2026, 14:58 BSTUK4
- Published value updated to £231,784,82127 May 2026, 14:58 BSTwas £27,000,000
- Status changed to active27 May 2026, 14:58 BST
- Procurement method changed27 May 2026, 14:58 BST
- Deadline published: 30 Jun 2026, 15:00 BST27 May 2026, 14:58 BST
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender