Official UK procurement notice
Independent Commercial and Assurance Review Service Provider
Authority: NETWORK RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionIndependent Commercial and Procurement Assurance Review Service Provider.
Network Rail seeks to appoint an Independent Commercial and Procurement Assurance Review Service Provider to provide independent assurance review activities on procurements with a contract value over £75m and some selected projects under £75m.
CPV: Business and management consultancy and related services · Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security · Corporate governance rating services · Internal audit services · Procurement consultancy services · System quality assurance assessment and review services · System quality assurance planning services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Network Rail seeks to appoint an Independent Commercial and Procurement Assurance…Planned
Network Rail seeks to appoint an Independent Commercial and Procurement Assurance Review Service Provider to provide independent assurance review activities on procurements with a contract value over £75m and some selected projects under £75m.
The RS C&P Procurement Operations team is responsible for the delivery of sourcing and contract management (‘SCM’) assurance activities on behalf of Network Rail’s Group Commercial and Procurement Director. Assurance is designed to ensure sufficient internal reviews are conducted throughout the sourcing and contract management lifecycle and that documents and decisions have received adequate oversight prior to reaching governance approval points.
The Supplier will be required to support the C&P Risk & Assurance team in undertaking independent assurance review activities on procurements with a contract value over £75m and some selected projects under £75m.
The Supplier will utilise their knowledge and experience in procurement, contract management and assurance to provide advice relating to key regulated procurement and commercial activities. Additional information: We anticipate that the call for competition will be published around 14/03/22 on our tendering portal networkrail.bravosolution.co.uk ↗
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0025 Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016 (Directive 2014/25/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 24 Feb 2022, 22:45 GMT
- Last source update
- 24 Feb 2022, 22:45 GMT
- FTS notice number
2022/S 000-005220- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-031b00Find a Tender
Publisher note: This notice is for “prior information only" and not intended as a call for competition or to reduce the time limit for the receipt of tenders. Network Rail is not able to provide further information on the scope of services or Pre-Qualification questions in advance of the tender being published. A Contract Notice will be published in due course. For the estimated date refer to section 11.3) Estimated date of Publication of contract notice.
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
24 Feb 2022 → 14 Mar 2022 · 2 dates- Notice published24 Feb 2022, 22:45 GMT
- Tender notice expected14 Mar 2022
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
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.