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Aerial Survey of the UK Rail Network - LiDAR ( Light Detection and Ranging) and Aerial Photography

Aerial photography services
UK
Published value
£10,000,000
Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
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Tenderline Synopsis: NETWORK RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED: "Aerial Survey of the UK Rail Network - LiDAR ( Light Detection and Ranging) and Aerial Photography". Published status: planning. Published value: £10,000,000. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityNETWORK RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITEDScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
planning
No deadline published
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)£10,000,000
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Published history for NETWORK RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
Published-to-award variance
Not availableInsufficient comparable data
Requires at least 5 comparable procedures
Competition Density
3.6Bids / Report
7.1% of reports have one bid
Supplier ConcentrationHigh Concentration
Transport for WalesTop vendor: 82.9% of attributable value
Payment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
Payment obligations depend on the applicable regime and contract. Consult the official documents.
Coverage: 58 active published awards; 14 bid reports (which may be per lot). Supplier values exclude multi-supplier awards, frameworks and DPS, and use GBP only. They are published award values, not payments. Published-to-award variance compares single-lot, single-award, single-supplier GBP procedures with explicitly non-framework/non-DPS status; increases remain in the average. Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
Historical Awarded Suppliers With This Authority:
Supplier NameHistoric AwardsAttributable GBP Value
Transport for Wales1 win£118,783,000
Oracle Corporation UK Limited2 wins£9,302,947
Xeiad Limited1 win£5,277,125
Informatica Software Ltd.1 win£2,994,872
Birmingham City Council1 win£1,800,000
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityNETWORK RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED
Procedure methodNot published
Procurement categoryNot published
Statusplanning
Framework / DPSNot published
CompetitionNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basisNot published
Tender period startsNot published
Clarification deadlineNot published
Electronic submissionNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Published30 Jan 2026, 14:46 GMT
Last source update30 Jan 2026, 14:46 GMT
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationAerial photography services
Delivery area
UK
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-061326
What is being bought
Network Rail require an Aerial Survey of the UK rail network, principally consisting of LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) and RGB (Red, Green and Blue) data capture. There is a desire to capture this data in the winter 2027/28 season (November 2027 to March 2028) and process it rapidly for the purposes of delivering Earthwork Asset condition information.
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Published value updated to £10,000,000
    30 Jan 2026, 14:46 GMT
  2. Status changed to planning
    30 Jan 2026, 14:46 GMT
  3. Official notice release published
    30 Jan 2026, 14:46 GMT
  4. Buyer information updated
    30 Jan 2026, 14:46 GMT
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    planning
    Published valueNot published
    The source published no individual title or description for this lot.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Pipeline notice
    30 Jan 2026, 14:46 GMT
  2. Procedure published
    30 Jan 2026, 14:46 GMT
  3. engagement
    31 May 2026, 23:59 BST · scheduled
    Network Rail is inviting all interested parties to express their interest in this ‘Pre-Market Engagement exercise’ - Please email marcus.pendlebury@networkrail.co.uk with the subject heading "NR National Aerial Survey". Once interest has been logged, Network Rail will send a Market Engagement Questionnaire along with a background information document. We request that the questionnaire is completed by Monday 2nd March 2026 at 17:00 hours, so please register your interest as soon as possible. A follow-up market engagement session may be held with all suppliers, or individual clarification questions sought in response to the questionnaire. Please also register as a supplier on our Procurement portal at https://networkrail.bravosolution.co.uk/ if you haven’t done so already.
Commercial outcome and competition
AwardsNo award published
ContractsNo contract published
Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

NETWORK RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED

Contracting authority GB-PPON-PNZN-9524-VCQJ
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Documents (1)
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Related procedures (0)
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Planning and rationale
Planning budgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Procedure rationaleNot published