Official UK procurement notice
Energy Hubs: Trackside Batteries
Authority: NETWORK RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNetwork Rail is seeking a partner to design, develop, construct and operate over their lifetime a portfolio of multi MW scale battery systems to support rail traction power and is publishing this PIN with the intention of holding a supplier engagement briefing.
Network Rail purchases 3.7TWh of electricity to provide traction power for passenger and freight trains using over 105 connections to the transmission and distribution electricity networks. Future electrification and battery trains will significantly increase traction power and connection points.
Traction power loads have high peaks as well as periods of low consumption. Trackside battery systems can manage consumption for the benefit of the rail and power system operators. Trackside batteries can be located near current and future grid connection points or at many more locations close to an electrified rail line.
Network Rail is working with Scottish Power Energy Networks, GE, Ricardo, Leeds University and NG-ESO to demonstrate a MW scale trackside battery at a site in Scotland.
Part of the demonstration project is to develop the path for wider commercial implementation of larger trackside battery systems at a number of locations.
Network Rail is seeking a partner to design, develop, construct and operate a portfolio under a long-term services estimated at £150 to £200million.
CPV: Electrical machinery, apparatus, equipment and consumables; lighting · Electricity distribution and related services · Electricity, heating, solar and nuclear energy · Petroleum products, fuel, electricity and other sources of energy · Solar energy
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Network Rail intends to hold an engagement briefing for this procurement event via…Planned
Network Rail intends to hold an engagement briefing for this procurement event via Microsoft Teams.
The call will take place on Wednesday 12th June 2024 at 10am and will last up to 60mins .
Interested parties are invited to confirm attendance via the BRAVO platform.
Invite links will then be sent on ahead of the call on the Wednesday. Additional information: Attendance to be logged via Bravo NR
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How NETWORK RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED buys Petroleum, coal, oil and gas (CPV 09), and who usually turns up
NETWORK RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Petroleum, coal, oil and gas (CPV 09) →
How the contest usually goes
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How often small and medium firms win.
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Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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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.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in Scotland.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside the region where that award was delivered.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
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Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 148 days of the bid deadline.
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Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
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How many bids past lots received.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid13% / 13%
2–350% / 50%
4–638% / 25%
7+0% / 13%
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% / 44%
Within ±2%0% / 36%
Above estimate17% / 20%
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No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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Lot #1Network Rail intends to hold an engagement briefing for this procurement event via…CPV 09No real estimate
This lot lists more than one class in CPV 09. The comparison uses that group.
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How many bids this lot may attract.
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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 182 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid6%
2–337%
4–643%
7+13%
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Where the award price may land.
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
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A past supplier may not bid again.
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A past supplier may not bid again.
No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
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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.
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Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0025 Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016 (Directive 2014/25/EU)
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 15 May 2024, 10:40 BST
- Last source update
- 15 May 2024, 10:40 BST
- FTS notice number
2024/S 000-015402- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0459b0Find a Tender
How it was run
Official noticeTender documents are also served through a separate tool: http://www.networkrail.bravosolution.co.uk ↗
- Submission deadline
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Timeline
15 May 2024 → 1 Jan 2030 · 2 dates- Notice published15 May 2024, 10:40 BST
- Today26 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expected1 Jan 2030
Commercial outcome & contract awards
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- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.