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title: "Pre Market Engagement: Portable Mobile Phone charging Units"
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# Pre Market Engagement: Portable Mobile Phone charging Units

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/pre-market-engagement-portable-mobile-phone-charging-units-ocds-h6vhtk-034a14). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** NETWORK RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED: "Pre Market Engagement: Portable Mobile Phone charging Units". Published status: planned. Planned Pipeline Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** PLANNED (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [NETWORK RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/network-rail-infrastructure-limited-coh-02904587)
- **Planned Pipeline Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Not published
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Mobile-telephone services, Vending machines
- **Delivery Location:** UK
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-034a14`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/pre-market-engagement-portable-mobile-phone-charging-units-ocds-h6vhtk-034a14#tl-md)

## Description
This Market Sounding Briefing and Questionnaire (“Market Sounding”), has been issued by Network Rail (NR) in advance of finalising a proposal to procure a service provision for Portable Mobile Phone Charging in Excess Baggage Units in NR Managed Stations on behalf of NR Retail Property team.   The main purpose is for NR to understand the solutions that are available before commencing with a formal competition.  The NR Retail Property team is responsible for generating sustainable income from its estate for re-investment in our rail infrastructure.  
This requirement supports the NR vision to become a company that is on the side of its passengers and is therefore changing to be more responsive to the needs of passengers and freight users.  As part of the Putting Passengers First programme and from a safety perspective NR wants its passengers to feel safer by having access to facilities that enable them to charge their mobile phone(s).

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** planned
- **CPV codes:** 42933000
- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Description:** The current requirement is for a facility to provide passengers with portable mobile phone charging in, but not exhaustive to 15 NR managed stations.  It should be noted that NR is not committing to the installation of a facility at all locations; th...

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F017263-2022)
- **Last Source Update:** 2022-06-24T09:12:48.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-28T19:50:06.502Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-034a14