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UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice RDF

Railway maintenance or service vehicles
and railway freight wagons
UK
Published value
£130,000,000
Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
Procurement Executive Summary
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Tenderline Synopsis: NETWORK RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED: "UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice RDF". Published status: planning. Published value: £130,000,000. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityNETWORK RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITEDScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
planning
No deadline published
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)£130,000,000
Bidder Intelligence · Authority Profile: NETWORK RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED
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Derived from OCDS awards & bid statistics
Published history for NETWORK RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
Published-to-award variance
Not availableInsufficient comparable data
Requires at least 5 comparable procedures
Competition Density
3.6Bids / Report
7.1% of reports have one bid
Supplier ConcentrationHigh Concentration
Transport for WalesTop vendor: 82.9% of attributable value
Payment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
Payment obligations depend on the applicable regime and contract. Consult the official documents.
Coverage: 58 active published awards; 14 bid reports (which may be per lot). Supplier values exclude multi-supplier awards, frameworks and DPS, and use GBP only. They are published award values, not payments. Published-to-award variance compares single-lot, single-award, single-supplier GBP procedures with explicitly non-framework/non-DPS status; increases remain in the average. Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
Historical Awarded Suppliers With This Authority:
Supplier NameHistoric AwardsAttributable GBP Value
Transport for Wales1 win£118,783,000
Oracle Corporation UK Limited2 wins£9,302,947
Xeiad Limited1 win£5,277,125
Informatica Software Ltd.1 win£2,994,872
Birmingham City Council1 win£1,800,000
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityNETWORK RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED
Procedure methodNot published
Procurement categoryNot published
Statusplanning
Framework / DPSNot published
CompetitionNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basisNot published
Tender period startsNot published
Clarification deadlineNot published
Electronic submissionNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Published30 Jul 2026, 15:52 BST
Last source update30 Jul 2026, 15:52 BST
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationRailway maintenance or service vehicles, and railway freight wagons
Delivery area
UK
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-06d7fd
What is being bought
Network Rail's existing fleet of Rail Delivery Trains (RDTs) and Long-Welded Rail Trains (LWRTs) is approaching the point at which replacement options must be considered. Network Rail currently anticipates a future requirement for: • A fleet of approximately 8-11 trains. • A locomotive-hauled solution capable of both rail delivery and rail recovery activities. • A solution capable of carrying a minimum of 24 rails per train. • Remote operation of rail handling equipment to minimise manual intervention and improve operational safety. Engagement undertaken with the market to date has identified several opportunities for consideration as part of the sourcing strategy and technical requirements, including separate procurement of wagons and material handling equipment (MHE), and the development of a modular design making use of intermodal wagons. Network Rail requires market feedback to determine whether these opportunities should be established as requirements within the sourcing activity. Market feedback is therefore sought to help Network Rail understand the implications of adopting these requirements, including: • Impact on market appetite • Impact on design and delivery risks and timescales
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Published value updated to £130,000,000
    30 Jul 2026, 15:52 BST
  2. Status changed to planning
    30 Jul 2026, 15:52 BST
  3. Official notice release published
    30 Jul 2026, 15:52 BST
  4. Buyer information updated
    30 Jul 2026, 15:52 BST
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    planning
    Published valueNot published
    The source published no individual title or description for this lot.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Pipeline notice
    30 Jul 2026, 15:52 BST
  2. Procedure published
    30 Jul 2026, 15:52 BST
  3. engagement
    27 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST · scheduled
    Please submit response to the questionnaire via our procurement systems Bravo NR https://networkrail.bravosolution.co.uk
Commercial outcome and competition
AwardsNo award published
ContractsNo contract published
Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

NETWORK RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED

Contracting authority GB-PPON-PNZN-9524-VCQJ
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  • NETWORK RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED
    buyer

    GB-PPON: PNZN-9524-VCQJ
    Waterloo General Office, London, UKI45, SE1 8SW, GB
    garry.pyne@networkrail.co.uk
    +44908781001
Documents (1)
Official links; attachments are not copied
Related procedures (0)
No data
No related procedures published
Planning and rationale
Planning budgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Procedure rationaleNot published