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# Signalling Control System - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/signalling-control-system-preliminary-market-engagement-notice-ocds-h6vhtk-052c42). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Notice summary:** To continue to enhance the safety environment for railway track workers, passengers and the public Network Rail need to introduce technology which enhances safety controls and enables work to be undertaken more efficiently. Through this Preliminary Market Engagement Notice, Network Rail would like to understand available, or significantly developed, solutions for track worker controlled secondary/additional protection that does not require trackside devices on the current network.

## Key Information
- **Status:** PLANNING (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [NETWORK RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/network-rail-infrastructure-limited-coh-02904587)
- **Planned Pipeline Value:** £1,000,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Not published
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Other community, social and personal services
- **Delivery Location:** Not published
- **Legal Basis:** UKPGA 2023/54
- **Official Documents:** 1 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/signalling-control-system-preliminary-market-engagement-notice-ocds-h6vhtk-052c42#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-052c42`

## Before you bid
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- **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/signalling-control-system-preliminary-market-engagement-notice-ocds-h6vhtk-052c42#tl-md)

## Description
To continue to enhance the safety environment for railway track workers, passengers and the public Network Rail need to introduce technology which enhances safety controls and enables work to be undertaken more efficiently.
Through this Preliminary Market Engagement Notice, Network Rail would like to understand available, or significantly developed, solutions for track worker controlled secondary/additional protection that does not require trackside devices on the current network. This is assumed to require either an update or addition to an existing signalling control system or a control centre device that interfaces to the signalling control system. In either case, a connection would then be made to the track worker to allow them to apply and remove the additional protection using a remote device.
The purpose of this Preliminary Market Engagement Notice is to allow Network Rail to understand:
• What solutions to the problem statement are currently available? And/or potentially available soon.
• What can the market offer?
• Which systems would it work with?
• What, if anything, would Network Rail need to change or adapt for successful implementation?

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** planning
- **CPV codes:** 98000000

- **Contract Period:** 01/01/2026 to 31/12/2026

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F029826-2025)
- **Last Source Update:** 2025-06-04T11:02:40.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-11-02T04:16:07.569Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-052c42