Notice Information
Notice Title
Road Haulage and Warehousing Services
Notice Description
Network Rail has a requirement for the operation of a 24/7 road haulage service to manage the collection, haulage and delivery (including loading and offloading) of materials by road. Network Rail also has the requirement for warehousing management. The purpose of this exercise is to engage the market, to gather information and understand aspects of potential best practice to inform Network Rail's Tender process including developing a specification and pricing model. The key objectives of this activity are to: 1. Understand areas of efficiency and best practice to refine and inform Network Rail's requirement to tender Road Haulage and Warehousing activities. 2. Understand the level of interest from the supply chain for the upcoming tender activity. 3. Allow the supply chain to have a view of Network Rail's specification and invite any questions or suggestions for improvements. 4. Allow suppliers to visit one of our Regional Distribution Centres to provide clarity of the operation to enable the best tender responses. Network Rail has previously conducted Pre-Market Engagement under UCR(2016) : Notice identifier: 2024/S 000-007584 - Published 8 March 2024, 4:06pm. This included completion of specific questions relative to the requirement. A summary of questions asked and responses shall be provided to all interested parties. This Pre-Market engagement activity will include a site visit which shall be held on the 27th March 2025. This shall be at Network Rail's Coventry Regional Distribution Centre. This shall be limited to 2 people per organisation. 1 week before the site visit, a draft specification and questionnaire shall be sent for review. The deadline for this pre-market engagement is 11/04/2025, a formal response is required from all interested parties by this date. This shall include, comments on the draft specification and any comments on the material that was presented on the day, also completion of the mentioned questionnaire.
Planning Information
Site Visits 27/03/2025 including overview presentation. 11/04/2025, Deadline for Pre-Market Engagement including formal responses.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-04ec65
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/009087-2025
- Current Stage
- Planning
- All Stages
- Planning
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice
- Procurement Type
- Framework
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Not Specified
- Procurement Method Details
- Not specified
- Tender Suitability
- SME, VCSE
- Awardee Scale
- Not specified
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
60 - Transport services (excl. Waste transport)
63 - Supporting and auxiliary transport services; travel agencies services
-
- CPV Codes
60100000 - Road transport services
63122000 - Warehousing services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £340,000,000 £100M-£1B
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 12 Mar 202511 months ago
- Submission Deadline
- Not specified
- Future Notice Date
- 30 Sep 2025Expired
- Award Date
- Not specified
- Contract Period
- 31 Oct 2026 - 31 Oct 2034 Over 5 years
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Planning
- Lots Status
- Planning
- Awards Status
- Not Specified
- Contracts Status
- Not Specified
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- NETWORK RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED
- Contact Name
- Aryan Dahihandekar
- Contact Email
- aryan.dahihandekar@networkrail.co.uk
- Contact Phone
- 07702620306
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
- Not specified
-
- Local Authority
- Lambeth
- Electoral Ward
- Waterloo & South Bank
- Westminster Constituency
- Vauxhall and Camberwell Green
Further Information
Notice Documents
-
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/009087-2025
12th March 2025 - Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
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