Official UK procurement notice
Autumn Response Teams Framework
Authority: NETWORK RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionAutumn Response Teams (ART) provide proactive and reactive mitigation to manage low adhesion risk, protect operational safety, and improve overall network performance. Autumn is historically one of the most challenging seasons for railway operations due to railhead contamination caused primarily by leaf fall. Compacted leaf matter significantly reduces wheel–rail adhesion, increasing the risk of Signals Passed at Danger (SPADs), station over-runs, braking performance issues, and consequential service disruption.
CPV: Railway construction works · Railway-track maintenance services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1PlannedPublished value£5,861,809
- Condition of participation
This procurement will be conducted as a call-off under a Qualifying Utilities Dynamic Market (QUDM).
Only suppliers that are registered on RISQS and meet the specified product code requirements at the time of the search will be invited to participate in the procurement process.
Selection (PSQ) and tender (ITT) requirements will be issued concurrently as part of a single stage process. Suppliers must satisfy the selection requirements in order for their tender submission to be evaluated.
A RISQS search will be undertaken by COP on the 21st May 2026 to identify suppliers to be invited to participate in the tender process.
Suppliers wishing to be considered must be registered against the relevant RISQS product codes at the time the search is conducted.
Suppliers must hold a valid RISQS audit certification for the applicable product codes prior to contract award.
A.A.9.1
A.A.1.8
A.A.1.5
All suppliers wanting to bid will operate as the Principal Contractor and be fully self-sufficient. In addition, Suppliers must hold a Principal Contractor License (PCL) or Provisional Principal Contractor License at the point of award.
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).
- Condition of participation
This procurement will be conducted as a call-off under a Qualifying Utilities Dynamic Market (QUDM).
Only suppliers that are registered on RISQS and meet the specified product code requirements at the time of the search will be invited to participate in the procurement process.
Selection (PSQ) and tender (ITT) requirements will be issued concurrently as part of a single stage process. Suppliers must satisfy the selection requirements in order for their tender submission to be evaluated.
A RISQS search will be undertaken by COP on the 21st May 2026 to identify suppliers to be invited to participate in the tender process.
Suppliers wishing to be considered must be registered against the relevant RISQS product codes at the time the search is conducted.
Suppliers must hold a valid RISQS audit certification for the applicable product codes prior to contract award.
A.A.9.1
A.A.1.8
A.A.1.5
All suppliers wanting to bid will operate as the Principal Contractor and be fully self-sufficient. In addition, Suppliers must hold a Principal Contractor License (PCL) or Provisional Principal Contractor License at the point of award.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How NETWORK RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED buys Construction work for pipelines, communication and power lines, for highways, roads, airfields and railways; flatwork (CPV 4523), and who usually turns up
NETWORK RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Construction work for pipelines, communication and power lines, for highways, roads, airfields and railways; flatwork (CPV 4523) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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How often small and medium firms win.
Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.
The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.
No small-firm winners recorded among this authority’s published awards in this sample.
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How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
Here, local means registered in Greater London (authority’s region).
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside Greater London.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards were announced within 156 days of the bid deadline.
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.
Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.
How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.
Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid13% / 4%
2–350% / 24%
4–638% / 28%
7+0% / 44%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate83% / 42%
Within ±2%0% / 29%
Above estimate17% / 29%
Assess each lot i
What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1CPV 4523Published estimate£5.9m
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How many bids this lot may attract.
The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.
Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative. The bar shows 25 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid4%
2–324%
4–628%
7+44%
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Where the award price may land.
The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.
No comparable awards for this lot yet.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
Who could compete for this lot? i
Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
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.
- Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
- Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
- 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.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Below threshold - by reference to dynamic market
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Works
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Below threshold
- Regulatory regime
- Utilities
- Commercial structure
- Call-off under a framework
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 19 May 2026, 10:52 BST
- Last source update
- 19 May 2026, 10:52 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-045660- Latest notice
- Planned procurement notice (UK3)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-069bb1Find a Tender
- Call-off under framework RISQS
How it was run
Official notice- Requests to participate (first stage)
- 28 May 2026, 23:59 BST
- Submission deadline
- 28 May 2026, 23:59 BST
Timeline
19 May 2026 → 1 Aug 2026 · 4 dates- Planning notice published156 days ago19 May 2026, 10:52 BST
- Tender notice expected154 days ago21 May 2026, 23:59 BST
- Submission deadline147 days ago28 May 2026, 23:59 BST
- Contract starts83 days ago1 Aug 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Planned procurement notice published19 May 2026, 10:52 BSTUK3
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Planned procurement notice Planned procurement notice on Find a Tender