Official UK procurement notice
Intra-company benchmarking of Network Rail's maintenance and renewals expenditure
Authority: Office of Rail and Road (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis project aim is understanding the drivers of Network Rail's expenditure, including the reasons for changes over time, is key to understanding value for money - of which cost efficiency is a key part. To achieve this, we use a range of complementary approaches including bottom-up assessments of Network Rail's business plans and performance, and top-down cost benchmarking using statistical (econometric) methods. This work relates to our top-down benchmarking of Network Rail's maintenance and renewals expenditure for the year from 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026 ('2025-26').
CPV: Financial management consultancy services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Lot 1RenewalPublished value£75,000
- Value
- £75,000 exc. VAT · £90,000 inc. VAT
- Extensions
- The contract will be for 4 months with an option for ORR to extend the contract deadline for one period for up to 12 months.
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).
Methodology (30%) The proposal should set out the methodology by which the project requirement will be initiated, delivered and concluded. In particular, it must: (a) Explain the methodology and delivery mechanisms to ensure that the requirements of this specification are met in terms of quality - this should cover the approach to the cost driver analysis, econometric analysis; (b) Please explain the approach that will be used to ensure that the cost drivers used in the assessment are based on sound engineering judgement; (c) Please explain the approach to assessing and addressing data issues (d) Please explain the approach to the overall quality assurance of the work; (e) Please explain the approach to knowledge sharing. Delivery (25%) The proposal should set out how and when the project requirement will be delivered. In particular, it must: (a) Explain how your organisation will work in partnership with ORR's project manager to ensure that the requirement is met; (b) Explain how this work will be delivered to timescale and how milestones will be met, detailing the resources that will be allocated to each stage; (c) Demonstrate an understanding of the risks, and project dependencies and explain how they would be mitigated to ensure project delivery; (d) Explain the resources that will be allocated to delivering the required outcomes/output, and what other resources can be called upon if required. Experience (25%) The proposal should set out any experience relevant to the project requirement. In particular, it must: (a) Provide CVs of the consultants who will be delivering the project - this should separately cover CVs for both economic and engineering input; (b) Highlight the organisation's relevant experience for this project, submitting examples of similar projects. Cost / Value for money (20%) A fixed fee for delivery of the project requirement (inclusive of all expenses), including a full price breakdown for each stage of the project and details of the day rates that will apply for the lifetime of this project.
No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How Office of Rail and Road buys Business and management consultancy services (CPV 7941) — and who usually turns up
Office of Rail and Road’s own published record, next to the Greater London market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Business and management consultancy services (CPV 7941) →
How the contest usually goes
Left: this authority. Right: the market where the work is delivered. Bids and award-vs-estimate pairs are per lot, from contested contracts only — direct awards (including PA 2023 transparency notices) report one bid by definition and are left out. On Procurement Act 2023 notices the count is the tenders assessed at the final stage, not every submission received; pairs compare like with like (VAT-exclusive, or VAT-inclusive on both sides). Empty means nothing was published, not filled in from elsewhere.
Office of Rail and Road
contract notices in 36 months: 11 in CPV 7941 · 26 in division 79 · 44 in all categories
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How many companies usually bid for work like this.
Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 2 lots. All 2 lots are from older notices, which count bids received. Small sample.
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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How often only one company bid.
Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 2 lots. Small sample.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.
Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7941), last 36 months: 4 pairs.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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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.
Nothing published for this buyer in this sector: no award dates published.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.
Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 24 months: 63 notices.
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How often this buyer awards without a competition.
Direct or limited awards as a share of its notices that say which procedure was used. These routes are legal in defined cases. This is just the record.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7941), last 36 months: 11 notices.
Greater London · Business and management consultancy services (CPV 7941)
contract notices delivered in Greater London in 36 months: 193 in CPV 7941 (142 competed, 17 route not published) · 953 in division 79 (632 competed, 163 route not published) · the notice publishes no delivery location, so the authority’s registered region is used
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How many companies usually bid for work like this.
Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7941), last 36 months: 82 lots. 41 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 4) and 41 from older notices (bids received, middle 5).
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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How often only one company bid.
Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7941), last 36 months: 82 lots.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.
Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7941), last 36 months: 53 pairs.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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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.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7941), last 36 months: 33 notices.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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How much of this market goes to small and medium firms.
SME bidders where buyers published the split, otherwise SME winners.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7941), last 36 months: 53 lots.
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How much work like this goes to companies based in the delivery region.
Awards in this category delivered here where the winner’s registered address is in the region.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7941), last 36 months: 122 awards.
Registered address, so a national firm with a local branch counts as outside.
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Where this tender’s estimate would land if the usual pattern repeats.
We apply the buyer’s usual movement between estimate and award (or the region’s) to the estimate on this notice.
Based on 4 lots, so only the direction is shown, not a pound figure.
A benchmark, not a price to bid.
Who you are likely to meet i
Who you may be up against.
Suppliers on this buyer’s earlier similar contracts, and suppliers whose record fits this tender.
A guess from the record. Buyers do not publish who is bidding.
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Who you may be up against.
Suppliers on this buyer’s earlier similar contracts, and suppliers whose record fits this tender.
A guess from the record. Buyers do not publish who is bidding.
Suppliers on this authority’s earlier similar contracts, then suppliers with a matching track record — from published award history, not a bid list
Already supplying a similar contract to Office of Rail and Road i
Who holds similar work with this buyer now.
Winners of this buyer’s earlier contracts that match this tender by title, lot, buyer and category.
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Who holds similar work with this buyer now.
Winners of this buyer’s earlier contracts that match this tender by title, lot, buyer and category.
| Supplier | Earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Match |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| REBEL INFRASTRUCTURE ASSETS & OPERATIONS UK LTDPrior contract | Benchmarking of international railway infrastructure managers' expenditure (covering operations, support, maintenance and renewals activities) | Prior Contract Award | — | 54% match |
Earlier contracts of this authority that the nightly matcher links to this notice by title, lot, buyer and CPV. Open the contract before treating anyone as the incumbent.
Suppliers with a similar track record — and how they price i
Suppliers with a similar track record, and how they price.
Suppliers matched on wins in this category, history with this buyer, location and size. Their award vs estimate is from their own past wins.
A guess from the record, not a bidder list.
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Suppliers with a similar track record, and how they price.
Suppliers matched on wins in this category, history with this buyer, location and size. Their award vs estimate is from their own past wins.
A guess from the record, not a bidder list.
| Supplier | Evidence | Last award | Their award vs estimate | Relevance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CEPA LLP Large | 23 class wins · 3 lots for this buyer | 2 months ago | no comparable pairs | 63% |
| AECOM Limited Large | 13 class wins · 2 lots for this buyer | this month | no comparable pairs | 62% |
| NEWBRIDGE ADVISORS LLP SME | 7 class wins | this month | no comparable pairs | 60% |
| THE BERKELEY PARTNERSHIP LLP SME | 21 class wins | 7 months ago | no comparable pairs | 60% |
| Alba Partners SME | 22 class wins | 1 months ago | no comparable pairs | 60% |
Matched by the nightly worker on class wins, buyer history, delivery geography, scale and notice text; relevance is a 0–100% heuristic score, not a probability of bidding. “Their award vs estimate” is that supplier’s median on its own comparable single-supplier wins, CPV 7941 first. Nobody here is known to be bidding.
Coverage and what to read with care
- Each tile explains itself. The on a figure says what it is, how it is counted and which scope this notice’s own record came from (class, division, all categories, or the authority’s 24-month row). The two columns are never blended and nothing is filled from a UK-wide figure; an empty tile means the source published nothing usable. Long form: Methodology.
- Coverage. Roughly 40 % of notices publish a bid count; about half publish an ITL1 delivery location, so the market column reads the authority’s registered region when the notice has none (labelled). About 30 % of award-vs-estimate pairs are exact matches — the buyer published the award at the estimate. n is on every figure; a thin sample is muted, never hidden.
- “Match” and “relevance” are model scores from the nightly matcher, not published facts. Find a Tender does not publish who is bidding. Never shown: contact details, payment behaviour, or a recommended price.
What this replaces i
The earlier contract this tender most likely replaces.
Matched on title, category and buyer. The match percentage says how close the titles are.
44% title match.
A likely match, not a published link.
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The earlier contract this tender most likely replaces.
Matched on title, category and buyer. The match percentage says how close the titles are.
44% title match.
A likely match, not a published link.
The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (44% title match) — the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid
Benchmarking of international railway infrastructure managers' expenditure (covering operations, support, maintenance and renewals activities) — held by REBEL INFRASTRUCTURE ASSETS & OPERATIONS UK LTD; the published contract ends 27 Feb 2026.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Below threshold - open competition
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Open for tender
- Procurement threshold
- Below threshold
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 22 Sept 2026, 12:07 BST
- Last source update
- 22 Sept 2026, 12:07 BST
- Authority reference
ORR CT 26-33- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077763Find a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via Jaggaer- Expression of interest (EOI)
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- Tender submission deadline
- 20 Oct 2026, 17:00 BST
- Clarification deadline
- 6 Oct 2026, 17:00 BST
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
Timeline
4 published dates · Europe/London- Tender notice published2 days ago22 Sept 2026, 12:07 BST
- Clarification questions byin 12 days6 Oct 2026, 17:00 BST
- Submission deadlinein 26 days20 Oct 2026, 17:00 BST
- Contract startsin 38 days2 Nov 2026, 00:00 GMT
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published22 Sept 2026, 12:07 BSTUK4
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
Notices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender