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Published 14 Oct 2025, 15:42 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Pre market engagement for Network Design Tool

Official notice

Authority: NETWORK RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED (Central government)

ServicesAbove thresholdUtilities
Sectors: IT Services & Software (72) Delivery: UK
Planned pipeline value£10,000,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Contract term 6 yrs 5 moends 14 Jan 2033 · starts 14 Aug 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Network Rail is seeking market input to inform the Design Service Fulfilment procurement strategy and system/platform assessment.

This initiative aims to modernise, simplify, and streamline IP network Infrastructure design, integration and provisioning service fulfilment in line with Network Rail’s vision: Simpler, Better, Greener, and understand what is available on the market.

CPV: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 6 yrs 5 mo
Contract period: 14 Aug 2026 – 14 Jan 2033 (6 yrs 5 mo)
Delivery: UK
72000000 IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

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
Above threshold (FTS publication)
Regulatory regime
Utilities
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
14 Oct 2025, 15:42 BST
Last source update
23 Oct 2025, 13:23 BST
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-067813
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05cc85 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

14 Oct 2025 → 14 Aug 2026 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published383 days ago
    14 Oct 2025, 15:42 BST
  2. Latest notice published374 days ago
    23 Oct 2025, 13:23 BST
  3. Market engagement361 days ago
    5 Nov 2025, 23:59 GMT

    To access the instruction/guidance on how to be a part of the initial Pre Market engagement and to access the Pre Market engagement support document please follow below link.

    networkrail.bravosolution.co.uk/esop/guest/go/opport… ↗

    OR

    networkrail.bravosolution.co.uk/esop/toolkit/opportu… ↗

    Alternatively, you may log out of Bravo and click on "current opportunities" on bottom left of Bravo page. Search for the opportunity in the search bar and it will take you to the same place as the links shared above. If error still persists then please contact Bravo helpdesk.

    Deadline for responding is 5th Nov'25

  4. Contract starts80 days ago
    14 Aug 2026, 00:00 BST

Notice history

2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 14 Oct 2025
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    14 Oct 2025, 15:42 BST
    UK2
  2. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    23 Oct 2025, 13:23 BST
    UK2
Published amendments (1)

Included alternative ways under "Engagement process description " to access the pre-market engagement guidance/instruction and documents on Bravo.

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

NETWORK RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED

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

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure