Official UK procurement notice
WCC - Rugby Parkway Station Investor/Developer Partner Market Engagement
Authority: Warwickshire County Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionWarwickshire County Council (the "Council") is seeking to understand the market appetite for financing a portfolio of new railway stations, starting specifically with Rugby Parkway, a proposed new railway station on the eastern edge of Rugby.
The Council understands there are multiple local authorities looking at new stations as a means of unlocking social and economic benefits. The Rugby Parkway scheme has progressed to a relatively advanced stage (with all land acquired, outline planning consent granted, outline design accepted by Network Rail and Network Change now complete) and is at the point at which it can be taken forward into delivery by a private investor/developer.
A private investor/developer partner would be expected to fund, deliver, and maintain the new station under a long-term concession (c. 30 years), using a mix of investor capital and commercial bank debt. The Council understands there will be certain risks that will need to be shared in order to obtain the optimum financing structure.
This market engagement seeks to test the appetite of infrastructure investors, developers, contractors, and lenders to participate in such an opportunity, and to inform the Council's internal decision-making on the most appropriate commercial and procurement approach.
CPV: Railway transport services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Warwickshire County Council buys Railway transport services (CPV 6020), and who usually turns up
Warwickshire County Council’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Railway transport services (CPV 6020) →
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.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 52 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 bid18% / 21%
2–326% / 31%
4–630% / 26%
7+26% / 22%
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.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate18% / 34%
Within ±2%68% / 31%
Above estimate13% / 35%
Assess each lot i
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 6020Estimate not published
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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 533 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid21%
2–331%
4–626%
7+22%
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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
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 17 Nov 2025, 17:00 GMT
- Last source update
- 17 Nov 2025, 17:00 GMT
- Authority reference
WAR - 0023- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-074553- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05e2cfFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
17 Nov 2025 → 1 Apr 2026 · 3 dates- Planning notice published341 days ago17 Nov 2025, 17:00 GMT
- Market engagement313 days ago15 Dec 2025, 23:59 GMT
Warwickshire County Council will be using its e-tendering system for the administration of this market engagement.
Suppliers must register with the system to be able to download documents. The web address for the portal is:
in-tendhost.co.uk/warwickshirecc/aspx/… ↗
Registration and use of the portal is free. When registering you will be re-directed to the In-Tend sell2midlands site. Once logged in to the sell2midlands site, you will need to select "Log in to portal" next to Warwickshire County Council to access the Warwickshire County Council site.
All correspondence or clarifications relating to this market testing must be via the portals' correspondence function. If you are having trouble registering with the portal please email us at:
The deadline for Market Testing Returns is 15th December 2025.
- Contract starts207 days ago1 Apr 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published17 Nov 2025, 17:00 GMTUK2
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