Find a TenderPast planning noticePreliminary market engagement notice
Published 28 Aug 2025, 14:05 BST

Official UK procurement notice

976595394 Market Engagement Questionnaire for T1400 Demonstrating the visibility and illumination of rolling stock external lighting

Official notice

Authority: Rail Safety Standards Board (RSSB) (Public body)

ServicesBelow threshold
Sectors: Research & Development (R&D) (73) Delivery: Delivery location not published
Planned pipeline value£100,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Contract term 6 moends 4 May 2026 · starts 3 Nov 2025

What is being bought

Published requirement description

This project aims to:

•Provide a defined list of variables that could impact front-end lighting intended to indicate the presence of a train to persons on or near the line

•Provide insight on front-end lighting used on GB rolling stock; and the assumptions made on their visibility

•Indicate the degree of warning provided (in terms of distance between an oncoming train and the viewer) by front-end lighting that is:

oCompliant with LOC&PAS (Rolling stock - Locomotive & Passenger) NTSN requirements

oInstalled on pre-TSI (Technical Specification for Interoperability) vehicles, including yellow front-ends

We are inviting suppliers to provide us a short summary of their capabilities and experience in this subject area to help us deliver a successful project. We welcome collaborative submissions or consortia, where expertise may be shared between organisations. If responding jointly, please specify the lead contact and delivery roles for each party. We are seeking to receive a response by 12:00PM (GMT), 11 September 2025 setting out your potential interest and further information you believe to be relevant using the structure.

For more information about this opportunity, please visit the Delta eSourcing portal at:

www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-London… ↗

To respond to this opportunity, please click here:

www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/5F5VS792C2 ↗

CPV: Research services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 6 mo
Contract period: 3 Nov 2025 – 4 May 2026 (6 mo)

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Past planning notice
Procurement threshold
Below threshold
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
28 Aug 2025, 14:05 BST
Last source update
28 Aug 2025, 14:05 BST
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-051997
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Research services
Delivery area
Not published
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-058f65 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

28 Aug 2025 → 3 Nov 2025 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published
    28 Aug 2025, 14:05 BST
  2. Market engagement
    11 Sept 2025, 23:59 BST

    A full procurement is planned to be published in September 2025.

  3. Contract starts361 days ago
    3 Nov 2025

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    28 Aug 2025, 14:05 BST
    UK2

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

Rail Safety Standards Board (RSSB)

Contracting authorityPublic undertaking GB-PPON: PVGN-9767-BLPT 25 Fenchurch Avenue,, London, London, EC3M 5ADContact name, email, phone

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure