Official UK procurement notice
“Pop-Up” Management Agent Service
Authority: NETWORK RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionProvision of a retail unit management service to market, let and manage short-term retail unit occupancies across railway stations, including marketing, occupier sourcing, lease and licence administration, compliance management, financial administration, operational support, and performance management to maximise occupancy levels and commercial income.
CPV: Non-residential property renting or leasing services · Non-residential property services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Network Rail intends to procure a managed Pop-Up Management Agent Service to maximise…Planned
Network Rail intends to procure a managed Pop-Up Management Agent Service to maximise the occupancy, commercial performance and customer experience of short-term retail, promotional, experiential and brand activation opportunities across Network Rail managed stations and, potentially, Train Operating Company (TOC) stations. The appointed supplier will provide an end-to-end service including marketing and letting vacant spaces, occupier sourcing, onboarding and mobilisation, contractual and legal administration, financial management and rent collection, compliance management, operational oversight, stakeholder engagement, performance reporting and business development activities. The service will support the continued delivery and expansion of short-term lettings across the railway estate, enabling the efficient occupation of vacant space while driving revenue generation and enhancing station environments.
The purpose of this Pre-Market Engagement is to:
- Engage with the supply market and understand the level of interest in bidding for this potential future opportunity;
- Allow suppliers who are interested in any potential future tender activity relating to this requirement, to be aware of the procurement platform that will be used, and provide them with the steps to complete qualification to this platform if requested (should they not have already done so);
- Identify suitable suppliers available in the market;
- Identify the capacity and capabilities of the suppliers available in the market;
- Identify any additional services, requirements or concepts that Network Rail have not considered – this information may then be considered to support Network Rail in developing/updating its specification for the tender opportunity;
- Gain feedback on the draft specification and other aspects of the potential strategy for this opportunity.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How NETWORK RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED buys Non-residential property renting or leasing services (CPV 7022), and who usually turns up
NETWORK RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED’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: Non-residential property renting or leasing services (CPV 7022) →
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.
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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 outside 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 148 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 bid13% / 0%
2–350% / 20%
4–638% / 80%
7+0% / 0%
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 estimate83% / 39%
Within ±2%0% / 44%
Above estimate17% / 17%
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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 #1Network Rail intends to procure a managed Pop-Up Management Agent Service to maximise…CPV 7022Published estimate£5.0m
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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 154 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid19%
2–331%
4–634%
7+16%
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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 · publisher note attached- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- 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
- 24 Sept 2026, 12:46 BST
- Last source update
- 6 Oct 2026, 13:13 BST
- Authority reference
2026/S 000-090538- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-094256- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077974Find a Tender
Publisher note: To participate in Pre-Market Engagement please register on the Network Rail procurement portal here. https://networkrail.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.html Search for opportunities under the name "Retail Pop-Up" and download the Pre-Market Engagement Questionnaire for further details.
How it was run
Official noticeTender documents are also served through a separate tool: https://networkrail.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.html ↗
- Submission deadline
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Timeline
24 Sept 2026 → 6 Oct 2026 · 2 dates- Tender notice expected33 days ago24 Sept 2026, 00:00 BST
- Notice published20 days ago6 Oct 2026, 13:13 BST
Notice history
2 releases on Find a TenderPublished amendments (1 · 0 deadline changes)
| When | What | Before | After | Shift |
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| — | TextII2.4 | Network Rail intends to procure a managed Pop-Up Management Agent Service to maximise the occupancy, commercial performance and customer experience of short-term retail, promotional, experiential and brand activation opportunities across Network Rail managed stations and, potentially, Train Operating Company (TOC) stations. The appointed supplier will provide an end-to-end service including market… | Network Rail intends to procure a managed Retail Unit Management Agent Service to maximise the occupancy, commercial performance and customer experience of retail units across Network Rail managed stations and, potentially, Train Operating Company (TOC) stations. The service will support the marketing and letting of vacant retail units, occupier sourcing, onboarding, operational management, and pe… | |
| — | TextII1.4 | Provision of a market agent service to manage short-term pop-up retail and promotional lettings across railway stations, including marketing, occupier sourcing, contract administration, compliance management, financial administration, operational support, and performance management to maximise occupancy and commercial income. | Provision of a retail unit management service to market, let and manage short-term retail unit occupancies across railway stations, including marketing, occupier sourcing, lease and licence administration, compliance management, financial administration, operational support, and performance management to maximise occupancy levels and commercial income. |
1 amendment published without a description.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
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Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications
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