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Published 24 Nov 2025, 14:08 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Support Hosting, Maintenance including developer days for CCIL

Official notice

Authority: NETWORK RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED (Central government)

Direct awardUtilities
Sectors: IT Services & Software (72) Delivery: UK
Awarded value£347,902published award · exc. VAT
Award in standstill 8 Dec 2025no call for competition
Award (standstill) to Atkins Limited

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Provision of support, hosting, maintenance, and developer days for the Control Centre Incident Log (CCIL) service. The contract covers secure hosting, application support, disaster recovery, backups, integrations, and helpdesk services for approximately 8,500 users. Services must be delivered continuously (24x7x365) for the contract term of two years, from 1 January 2026 to 31 December 2027.

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Awarded
Delivery: UK
72250000 System and support services

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Procedure method
Direct award
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Notice status
Awarded without competition
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime
Utilities
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Direct award (no call for competition)
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
24 Nov 2025, 14:08 GMT
Last source update
10 Dec 2025, 14:03 GMT
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-081524
Latest notice
Contract award notice (UK6)
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05e77a Find a Tender
Why no open competition

Single Suppliers Intellectual Property Exclusive Rights; Single Suppliers Technical Reasons; Additional Repeat Extension Partial Replacement

Published justification

AtkinsRéalis UK Ltd is the only supplier able to deliver these services due to proprietary ownership of the CCIL system, exclusive technical capability, and integration requirements, making competition absent for technical reasons under Schedule 5 of the Procurement Act 2023.

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

10 Dec 2025 → 19 Dec 2025 · 2 dates
  1. Notice published321 days ago
    10 Dec 2025, 14:03 GMT
  2. Standstill ends312 days ago
    19 Dec 2025, 23:59 GMT

Notice history

3 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 24 Nov 2025
  1. Transparency notice published
    24 Nov 2025, 14:08 GMT
    UK5
  2. Contract award notice published
    10 Dec 2025, 14:03 GMT
    UK6
  3. Contract signature expected
    19 Dec 2025, 23:59 GMT
    scheduled

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast
Awards 1
Awarded value £347,9021 award exc. VAT
Awarded toValueDateStatus
Atkins Limited1 Jan 2026 – 31 Dec 2027£347,9028 Dec 2025standstill to 19 Dec 2025Standstill

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

NETWORK RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central government GB-PPON: PNZN-9524-VCQJ Waterloo General Office, London, London, SE1 8SWContact name, email, phone

Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice
  • AtkinsRéalis UK LtdAwarded supplierGB-COH: 00688424 Woodcote Grove, Ashley Road,, Epsom,, South East, KT18 5BWContact email, phone

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

  • Contract award notice awardContract award noticeUK6Contract award notice on Find a Tender
  • Transparency notice awardTransparency noticeUK5Transparency notice on Find a Tender