Official UK procurement notice
Heaton RSS Feasibility · UK public procurement notice
Authority: Northern Trains Ltd (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionIn order to identify the optimum solution to address the issues identified at Heaton, a feasibility and option selection project is required. As Northern doesn't have in-house capabilities to complete this work, an external supplier will be procured to produce the following deliverables:
- Survey strategy and reports from specific surveys.
- Validate reports, previous work, and proposed changes against applicable rules and constraints
- Risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies log.
- Compliance with safety and design assurance requirements, Northern policies, and regulatory and industry rules and standards.
- Overall feasibility report including constructability assessment and concept design.
- Options identification report containing appraisal of possible options.
- Single option agreement in principle - define the preferred single option for each scheme and obtain agreement in principle with stakeholders.
- Preliminary design - multidisciplinary design of the selected single option.
- Design specification of requirements for inclusion in the ITT pack for design stage.
Upon completion of the feasibility and option selection work, the business case for each selected option will be reviewed. Options selected for progression will be setup as individual projects to commence the design and construction phases. These will be subject to their own individual internal governance and procurement processes.
Please be advised we have chosen an above threshold tender to comply with our internal decision but the budget is below £355k for the project.
CPV: Feasibility study, advisory service, analysis · Railway engineering services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Northern Trains Ltd buys Architectural, engineering and planning services (CPV 7124), and who usually turns up
Northern Trains Ltd’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: Architectural, engineering and planning services (CPV 7124) →
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.
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.
Here, local means registered in North East England.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside North East England.
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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 42 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.
Both shares are minimums: 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 bid0% / 4%
2–320% / 31%
4–640% / 38%
7+40% / 27%
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 estimate50% / 63%
Within ±2%25% / 22%
Above estimate25% / 15%
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 7124Estimate not published
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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 70 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid13%
2–327%
4–626%
7+34%
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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.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| Sable Leigh Consultancy LTDEarlier contract | Newton Heath RSS Feasibilityended Sept 2026 | — | £287k | Matched as the earlier contract |
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.
What this replaces i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
73% title match.
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.
73% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (73% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid
Newton Heath RSS Feasibility — held by SLC Rail Ltd; the published contract ends 10 Sept 2026.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Utilities
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 10 Dec 2025, 15:18 GMT
- Last source update
- 10 Dec 2025, 15:18 GMT
- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-081600- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05f2f6Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
10 Dec 2025 → 3 Apr 2026 · 4 dates- Planning notice published315 days ago10 Dec 2025, 15:18 GMT
- Market engagement307 days ago18 Dec 2025, 23:59 GMT
A workshop will take place via teams on 18th December 2025 at 11:30am to engage with suppliers on the upcoming Heaton RSS Feasibility Tender scheduled to release on 16th January 2026.
This workshop will give suppliers a brief overview of the scope, the timelines of the tender, budget, contract and how long the project is expected to run for.
If you would like to attend the session please email the Project Manager and Procurement Manager and the Teams invite will be sent across to you.
Please email: [email protected] & [email protected]
- Tender notice expected278 days ago16 Jan 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract starts202 days ago3 Apr 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published10 Dec 2025, 15:18 GMTUK2
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
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender