Notice Information
Notice Title
Supply of Long and Short Rail and Ancillary Services
Notice Description
Award of the Supply of Steel Rail and ancillary services to Network Rail (NR) for a period of up to 8 years. The scope for supply of steel rail within this notice includes the potential to include all of Network Rail and its subsidiaries, including but not limited to Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd and Network Rail High Speed and also to those organisations covered by our external business framework including Transport for Wales and as an occasional joint procurement with HS2 Ltd.
Lot Information
Supply of Steel Rail Long and Short and Ancillary Services
Network Rail has appointed 1 Supplier. Long Rail/Short Rail Package. The Supplier shall provide 108m/216m rail in 56E1 and 60E2 profiles and in both R260 grade and Premium grades. The Supplier shall provide the above with corrosion resistant coating when requested by Network Rail.
Options: Option 1: Green Steel Option 2: Closed Circular Economy
Procurement Information
The basis of the direct award to British Steel is Regulation 50(1)(c)(ii) UCR2016 on the grounds that competition is absent for technical reasons. Network Rail has undertook market engagement which has confirmed there is no other supplier with a long-rail welding facility in Great Britain or who has indicated that they would be prepared to construct one at present or in the foreseeable future. Network Rail has held an openly advertised competition for certain steel products including volumes of steel rail where the market engagement has indicated that access to NR's own welding facility is such that there is likely to be at least a degree of competition; this assumption was proved to be correct.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-03dd3b
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/038923-2025
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Award Notice
- Procurement Type
- Framework
- Procurement Category
- Goods
- Procurement Method
- Limited
- Procurement Method Details
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Large
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
34 - Transport equipment and auxiliary products to transportation
45 - Construction work
76 - Services related to the oil and gas industry
-
- CPV Codes
34946000 - Railway-track construction materials and supplies
34946110 - Rails
45262680 - Welding
76300000 - Drilling services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- Not specified
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- £1,579,196,746 £1B-£10B
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 10 Jul 20257 months ago
- Submission Deadline
- Not specified
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 30 Jan 20233 years ago
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Cancelled
- Awards Status
- Active
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- NETWORK RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE LTD
- Contact Name
- Garry Pyne
- Contact Email
- garry.pyne@networkrail.co.uk
- Contact Phone
- +44 7720513389
Buyer Location
- Locality
- LONDON
- Postcode
- SE1 8SW
- Post Town
- South East London
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLI London
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLI4 Inner London - East
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLI45 Lambeth
- Delivery Location
- TLE13 North and North East Lincolnshire, TLJ3 Hampshire and Isle of Wight
-
- Local Authority
- Lambeth
- Electoral Ward
- Waterloo & South Bank
- Westminster Constituency
- Vauxhall and Camberwell Green
Further Information
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
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