Official UK procurement notice
Supply of Liquid Fuels · NETWORK RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED (Oct 2026)
Authority: NETWORK RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNetwork Rail is undertaking a market engagement exercise to enhance its understanding of the market for the supply and delivery of liquid fuels across Great Britain. The information gathered will be used to inform the Network Rail’s procurement strategy and any future procurement activity.
Network Rail is intending to tender for a national framework for the supply and delivery of liquid fuels across Great Britain.
The framework will enable Network Rail and authorised users to procure liquid fuels required to support the operation of rolling stock and associated assets located throughout England, Scotland and Wales with an initial term of eight years, with break clauses applying throughout the term.
The proposed framework is expected to include:
- Supply and delivery of red diesel, white diesel and gas oil.
- Supply and delivery of alternative and renewable fuels, including Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO) and Fatty Acid Methyl Ester (FAME).
- Emergency and ad-hoc fuel deliveries.
- Nationwide coverage across approximately 50 fuel locations throughout Great Britain.
- Fuel management solutions, including telemetry and automated fuel ordering systems.
- Fuel monitoring, reporting and management information.
- Tank security and access-control solutions to support fraud prevention and fuel security.
- Transition and data migration support where required.
- Associated customer service, account management and performance reporting.
Suppliers will be required to ensure all fuels supplied comply with all applicable legislation, industry standards and regulatory requirements.
The framework is expected to operate on a demand-led basis with no guaranteed volume commitment.
CPV: Petroleum and distillates · Vehicle refuelling services
How this framework works
From the published notice- Framework period
- 8 yrs from 1 Jul 2027
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedWhat 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).
- “Supply of Liquid Fuels” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How NETWORK RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED buys Petroleum and distillates (CPV 0913), and who usually turns up
NETWORK RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. This notice is a framework or DPS, so only frameworks and DPS are compared. Whole-market view: Petroleum and distillates (CPV 0913) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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How often small and medium firms win.
Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.
The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.
Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
Here, local means registered in Greater London (authority’s region).
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside Greater London.
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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.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards were announced within 250 days of the bid deadline.
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.
Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.
How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.
Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid7% / 11%
2–334% / 11%
4–648% / 50%
7+10% / 28%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.
On a framework or DPS, prices are agreed when work is called off.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Not comparable on a framework or DPS. The notice sets up a supplier panel and a ceiling value; what the work actually costs is agreed later, on each call-off or mini-competition, and those publish as contract notices of their own. The award-vs-estimate record of this market therefore sits on the call-offs; this page shows it on the contracts, not on the panel that frames them.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1CPV 0913Published estimate£9.6m
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How many bids this lot may attract.
The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.
Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative. The bar shows 18 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid11%
2–311%
4–650%
7+28%
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Where the award price may land.
The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.
No comparable awards for this lot yet.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
Who could compete for this lot? i
Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
- Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Utilities
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 14 Oct 2026, 15:55 BST
- Last source update
- 14 Oct 2026, 15:55 BST
- Authority reference
project_46854- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-097161- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0787dfFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Appointment period ends
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Timeline
14 Oct 2026 → 1 Jul 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published6 days ago14 Oct 2026, 15:55 BST
- Today20 Oct 2026
- Market engagementin 10 days29 Oct 2026, 23:59 GMT
To register your interest, please email [email protected] with the subject: "Network Rail Liquid Fuels PME".
Interested suppliers will receive a questionnaire, which should be completed and returned by the stated deadline.
Network Rail may seek clarification where additional information would assist in shaping the future procurement.
The information contained in this notice is indicative only and may be subject to change. Network Rail reserves the right not to proceed with any procurement exercise or contractual arrangement arising from this Prior Market Engagement.
- Tender notice expectedin 16 days4 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 254 days1 Jul 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published14 Oct 2026, 15:55 BSTUK2
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 (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender