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Published 23 Jun 2025, 10:25 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Provision of Circuits-Openreach Network in Advance-National

Official notice

Authority: NETWORK RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED (Central government)

Direct awardUtilities
Sectors: IT Services & Software (72) Delivery: Delivery location not published
Awarded value£2,200,000published contract · exc. VAT
Awarded 2 Jul 2025no call for competition
Awarded to Openreach2 awards

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Replacement of BT Megastream point-to-point (P2P) services for the Operational Railway.

Network Rail has identified an Openreach product called “Network in Advance” which will enable Network Rail to develop a transformation plan to transition any risk and costs exposure with its P2P Connectivity estate by migrating Megastream services to allow third party telecoms service providers to deliver an end to end alternative to Megastream e.g. Optical connect Wide Area Network (WAN) services.

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Awarded
72000000 IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Procedure method
Direct award
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Notice status
Awarded without competition
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime
Utilities
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Direct award (no call for competition)
GPA / WTO covered
Yes (GPA)
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
23 Jun 2025, 10:25 BST
Last source update
14 Aug 2025, 11:54 BST
Authority reference
Not used
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-048704
Latest notice
Contract details notice (UK7)
Delivery area
Not published
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-055171 Find a Tender
Why no open competition
Single Suppliers Technical Reasons
Published justification

This award is compliant with the New Procurement Act 2023 under section 41 chapter 3 referencing Sch. 5 para. 3.a) due to an absence of competition for technical reasons, only a particular supplier can supply the goods, services or works required, and

(b) there are no reasonable alternatives to those goods, services or works

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

17 Jul 2025 → 14 Aug 2025 · 2 dates
  1. Standstill ends
    17 Jul 2025, 23:59 BST
  2. Notice published
    14 Aug 2025, 11:54 BST

Notice history

4 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 23 Jun 2025
  1. Transparency notice published
    23 Jun 2025, 10:25 BST
    UK5
  2. Contract award notice published
    7 Jul 2025, 14:45 BST
    UK6
  3. Contract signature expected
    21 Jul 2025, 23:59 BST
    scheduled
  4. Contract details notice published
    14 Aug 2025, 11:54 BST
    UK7

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast
Awards 2
Awarded value £2,200,0001 contract exc. VAT · 1 repeated publication of the same award counted once
Contracts signed 1latest 18 Jul 2025
Awarded toValueDateStatus
Openreach22 Jul 2025 – 21 Jul 2028 · up to 21 Jul 2029Extensions: For additional services related to the original contract award£2,200,000same award published again · counted once2 Jul 2025standstill to 17 Jul 2025Standstill
Openreach£2,200,000 †—Awarded

Contracts

  • Contract 2 · Openreach

    Signed
    18 Jul 2025
    Value
    £2,200,000
    Period
    24 Jul 2025 – 24 Jul 2028 · up to 23 Jul 2029 with extensions
    Status
    active
    Extensions
    For additional services related to the original contract award

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

Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice
  • OPENREACH LIMITEDAwarded supplierGB-COH: 10690039 6 Gracechurch Street, london, London, EC3V 0ATContact email

Official documents & specifications (3)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

  • Contract details notice contractContract details noticeUK7Contract details notice on Find a Tender
  • Contract award notice awardContract award noticeUK6Contract award notice on Find a Tender
  • Transparency notice awardTransparency noticeUK5Transparency notice on Find a Tender