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Pre Market engagement FW127 Professional Services

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BuyerTranslink
StatusClosed
Deadline2 Dec 2025
Value£0
Published18 Nov 2025

What is being bought

It is the intention that this Framework will have 2 Lots, with each Lot having a schedule of rates. Lot 1 Permanent-Way & Associated Services: This Lot will be for the delivery of professional services related to permanent way infrastructure projects and maintenance. Lot 2 Civil & Structural Professional Services: This Lot will be for the provision of civil engineering and structures related professional services. The intention is that the supplier who attains the highest score in this tender will be appointed the Structures Maintenance Supplier. The Structures Maintenance Supplier will be issued a call-off Contract, whereby all work related to Structures Maintenance will be undertaken using this Contract. Other Civil & Structural works will be awarded via a sequence list, direct allocation or mini competition On both Lots there will be an Active and Reserve list. Suppliers will be ranked based on their tender scores.

Categories

Consultative engineering and construction services 71310000Infrastructure works consultancy services 71311300Structural engineering consultancy services 71312000Construction-related services 71500000

Lot details

Lot 1 Permanent-Way & Associated Services:

This Lot will be for the delivery of professional services related to permanent way infrastructure projects and maintenance

Statusactive
Value£0
Contract periodFrom 1 Sept 2026 to 31 Aug 2030

Lot 2 Civil & Structural Professional Services:

This Lot will be for the provision of civil engineering and structures related professional services. The intention is that the supplier who attains the highest score in this tender will be appointed the Structures Maintenance Supplier.

Statusactive
Value£0
Contract periodFrom 1 Sept 2026 to 31 Aug 2030

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Infrastructure works consultancy services, Structural engineering consultancy services, Consultative engineering and construction services, Construction-related servicesNot published
2Infrastructure works consultancy services, Structural engineering consultancy services, Consultative engineering and construction services, Construction-related servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 71. The category anchor is Consultative engineering and construction services (71310000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 7110,1165 median · 30 average (4,041 of 10,116 with a bid count)4.1 average (4,444 of 10,116 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer3Not publishedNot publishedNot published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementYes
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeutilities
Covered byNot published
Submission policyallowed
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-05e374
Latest release ID074900-2025
Latest release timestampTue Nov 18 2025 15:57:30 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLhttps://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/074900-2025
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsBelow threshold - open competition
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNo
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: end2025-12-02T23:59:59+00:00
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadline2025-11-25T23:59:59+00:00
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailshttps://etendersni.gov.uk
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£0
Tender lots in source2
Tender items in source2
Tender documents in source1
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
18 Nov 2025tender074900-2025
18 Nov 2025planning074824-2025

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

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Complete JSON history (2 releases)
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18 Nov 2025 · 074824-2025 · planning
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